Monthly Archives: October 2004
McNealy Pushes Suns Grid Vision
ORLANDO, Fla.—Speaking to a near capacity crowd of IT executives at Gartner Inc.s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here on Monday, Sun Microsystems Inc.s CEO Scott McNealy...
iSuppli Nudges 2004 PC Forecast Upward
Market researcher iSuppli Corp. said Monday that it had slightly increased its PC forecast for 2004, although it had adjusted projected revenue lower due...
Anti-Virus Products Miss Malware in Modified Zip Files
An anonymous researcher has reported through several sources that anti-virus products from six vendors fail to detect malware when it is contained in a...
Defections Rattle Java Alliance
An alliance supporting a key Java specification has frayed as the standard approaches final draft status, opening the possibility of a standards war over...
Microsoft Trims Next Windows Server Release
Microsoft Corp. wants to deliver its Windows Server 2003 update, known as "R2," in 2005. To make sure it will be able do so,...
Macromedia Adds Muscle to Flex
Macromedia Inc. Monday announced a new version of its Flex presentation server and application framework, Flex 1.5.
The San Francisco company announced Flex 1.5 just...
EULA Ruling Threatens Innovation
Sir? Yes, you—the one creating the Web services. Please step away from the computer and place your hands behind your head. And you three...
Taking a New Tack With SOAs
Few phrases have seized enterprise mind share to the same degree as "service-oriented architecture," or SOA. Buyers want to spend money building SOAs, and...
Plug-Ins Add Snap to Windows Apps
eWEEK labs tested Xamlon Inc.s Xamlon Professional 1.0 and Infragistics Inc.s NetAdvantage 2004 Volume 3, which are designed to make it easier for companies...
Ecosystems Key to Success
How competitive is your ecosystem? I started asking this question several years ago when I began to realize that networks of companies function in...