Monthly Archives: December 2004
Mozilla Takes Aim at E-mail with Thunderbird 1.0
Full ReviewBased on our initial impressions, the new open-source e-mail client from Mozilla, called Thunderbird, is well worth exploring. It seems to work quite...
HP, Veritas Team on Virtualization, Clustering
In a move some regarded as inevitable, Hewlett-Packard has abandoned its planned porting of Compaqs Tru64 operating system to HP-UX.
The original approach, which would...
SAP Readies Manufacturing Enhancements
For better communications between the shop floor, other company divisions and trading partners, SAP AG is working on a number of manufacturing-oriented enhancements to...
Group Enlists Honey Pots to Catch IM Threats
IMlogic Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to use so-called honey pots, or vulnerable machines, to track malicious virus activity on instant messaging and peer-to-peer...
Young Consumers Pose Tech Challenges for Retailers
Running the technology operations for a billion-dollar retail clothing chain is difficult enough during the holidays, let alone if most of your customers are...
Factories and Factions
The eWEEK Excellence Awards for 2004 are now accepting entries. Developer productivity is critical to achieving next years IT goals, and developer acceptance is...
Brain Trust Leads Cassatt
Startup Cassatt Corp. has been quietly assembling a team of top business and technology minds to form a company focused on providing enterprise software...
Microsoft Strengthens Security in Visual Studio 2005
Security is perhaps the final frontier for developers as they build applications for the modern enterprise. But with its newest development platforms, Microsoft Corp....
Linux Camp Takes New Tack on Kernel
A stable and mature Linux kernel is enabling its chief developers to shift away from the common kernel development model to one that will...
Mathematica 5.1s Web Services Add Up
Its ironic that Mathematica 5.1, an intensely mathematical software workbench, delivers improvements over Version 5.0 that are vastly out of proportion for a .1...