Monthly Archives: March 2004
IBM Downsizes for Portability
IBMs ThinkPad x40 blends portability and usability in a compact yet feature-rich package that is impressive enough to earn eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice distinction.Click...
Security Out of the Box
Its a paradox: If computer security—or perhaps I should say computer crime—werent so bad, there would be little need for the vibrant industry thats...
The Path to Safety?
Later this month some of the largest companies in the United States, led by the IT sector, will publicize a set of recommendations on...
NAI Changes Course
The year 2003 was an interesting one for Network Associates Inc., to say the least.NAI began by making two major acquisitions, of Entercept Security...
BigFix Finds, Fixes Flaws Across Nets
With BigFix Enterprise Suite 4.0, BigFix Inc. builds on its extensive patch management experience to present a well-designed, all-encompassing vulnerability identification and remediation platform....
Linux 2.6 Makes Enterprise Gains
The release of the 2.4 kernel marked Linux as an operating system ready for the enterprise. Three years and the next major revision later,...
Linux Powers Echo Megaproject
Silicon Graphics is behind the worlds largest shared-memory Linux system, a 512-processor behemoth at NASAs Ames Research Center. Recently, I got to look at...
Open Source Gets Enterprise-Ready
Open-Source software "has proved to be amazingly good at commoditizing IT infrastructure," said Red Hat fellow Jeff Law in remarks last month at Utah...
Fedora Core 2 Shows 2.6 Kernels Stuff
When Red Hat inc. turned its general-purpose Linux distribution from a retail product to the community-supported Fedora project, the company set out to define...
Getting a Handle on Content
Companies looking to tie together business processes with content will get a boost from enterprise content management software releases that FileNet Corp., Open Text...