Monthly Archives: April 2004
Flaw Leaves Internet Open to Attacks
A security researcher has developed a new attack for a well-known flaw in the TCP protocol that allows an attacker to effectively shut down...
CA Offers Pack for Reining in Oracle Databases
To help enterprises get a better handle on steering large and complex Oracle Corp. databases, Computer Associates International Inc. has rolled out CA Productivity...
Panel Suggests Steps toward Electronic Medical Records
More than 70 countries are already in the process of implementing electronic medical records. Among them are the United Kingdom and Canada, which are...
Linux Creator Calls Backporting Good Thing
The creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has weighed in on the issue of backporting features from newer Linux kernels into older...
Riverbed Appliances Speed WAN Traffic
Riverbed Technology Inc. next week will jump into the application switching fray when it introduces its own unique twist on the function—a fusion of...
Expand Launches Accelerator Appliances
Application traffic management provider Expand Networks today will do just as its name suggests—expand in several directions—when it launches the next generation of its...
ScriptLogic Handles Net Changes
ScriptLogic Corp.s ScriptLogic 5.5 Enterprise Edition gains an innovative inactivity monitor, along with a raft of feature upgrades that make this stalwart scripting tool...
Great Expectations for SAPs NetWeaver
SAP AG is gambling that its NetWeaver integration platform will do for the company this decade what its R/3 application suite did for it...
Sun Sees New Day after Microsoft Deal
The Sun-Microsoft alliance has been broadly perceived as an attack on Linux and the bailout of a weakened antagonist to preserve the illusion of...
For Sun, Microsoft Settlement Is No Joke
Many of us are just now coming to grips with the most serious implication of the April 2 settlement between Sun and Microsoft: Scott...