Monthly Archives: December 2003
Good Riddance, Win 98
People in technology industries talk about exponential growth the way teenagers talk about sex. Everyone pretends to be having it, everyone wishes they knew...
WS-I Samples Services
The Web Services Interoperability Organization has released WS-I Sample Application 1.0, a set of Web services designed to give developers an early look at...
Candle Debuting Testing Tools
Candle Corp. is launching a series of new testing and tuning tools as well as consulting services aimed at developers and system architects creating...
IBM Rationalizes App Development
IBM is pushing users of its development tools to a unified application development platform that will revolve around the companys Rational Software division.The Armonk,...
Top Tech Person of 2003
And now—the most important tech person of 2003...The drumroll will have to continue a bit longer as I explain the wholly unscientific, subjective and...
Linux Vendors Team to Safeguard Data
Linux in the enterprise will take a step forward with the announcement this week of a global initiative aimed at providing data center backup...
Net Taxes: Tug of War Looming?
It has been six weeks since a federal ban on taxing Internet access expired, and a political stalemate in Congress leaves a theoretical vacuum...
Microsoft to Retire Windows 98, Others
Microsoft Corp. is pulling the plug on many of its legacy products as a result of the Java lawsuit with Sun Microsystems Inc.The products...
Experts Warn of Windows Attacks
Security experts have found a new way to exploit a critical vulnerability in Windows that evades a workaround and enables the attacker to compromise...
Raxco Utility Revives Windows Desktops
Raxco Softwares FirstDefense-ISR (Immediate System Recovery) utility enables users to easily roll back systems from failures. However, it works only with newer Windows versions,...