Monthly Archives: February 2004
Microsoft VP Champions a New System of Measurement
Microsoft Corp. Group Vice President Jeff Raikes says its high time to move beyond the industry debate over whether IT offers companies competitive advantage....
eBay/Qualcomm Hacker Pleads Guilty
Jerome Heckenkamp pleaded guilty on January 29 to defacing the online auction house eBay and penetrating systems at the San Diego-based telecommunication equipment maker...
Red Hat CTO: Can Eclipse End Java Apartheid?
ANAHEIM, CALIF.— The Eclipse open source development platform has reached a critical point in terms of developer attraction and industry impact, and now having...
Sun Extends Office Alternative to Solaris x86 Platform
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday released a version of its StarOffice 7 office productivity suite for the Solaris x86 platform.
StarOffice 7 for the Solaris...
Ensim Launches Next-Gen Spam Filters
Ensim Corp. has released two new control panels that enable service providers to offer user-level spam filtering. The products, dubbed Ensim Pro and Ensim...
Tech Job Outlook Sizing up Security
There are no universal truths in the I.T. world, but one statement that comes as close as any is that the demand for I.T....
Symantec to Roll Out Clientless SSL VPN Gateway
Symantec Corp. is planning to introduce a Clientless SSL VPN Gateway by mid-February. Client software does not have to be installed on end-user devices...
Nokia, Intel, Others Start Mobile Anti-Piracy Push
Several top names in mobile phones, microchips and media this week said they will work together to license an anti-piracy technology for sending movies...
SCO Critic Joins OSRM
Open Source Risk Management, LLC (OSRM), an open-source risk management company, announced today that Pamela Jones, the editor and moderator of Groklaw.net has agreed...
Oracle Must Build a Future Without PeopleSoft
It appears increasingly unlikely that Oracle will succeed in its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, even if it gets the green light from government regulators...