Monthly Archives: January 2005
The Open-Source Challenge
In August 1991, a 21-year-old student posted a newsgroup message introducing a "free operating system" that he described as "just a hobby, wont be...
HP Adds Cisco Switch to Blades
Hewlett-Packard Co. is integrating a Gigabit Ethernet switch from Cisco Systems Inc. into its blade server architecture, a move company officials said will reduce...
Bandwidth Is Still Not Free
Today marks the entry deadline—really, we mean it—for eWEEKs Fifth Annual Excellence Awards. Full information is available at www.excellenceawardsonline.com.As we prepare for the annual...
Apple Offers Incremental PowerBook Upgrades
Apple Computer Inc. quietly updated its line of PowerBook laptop computers on Monday. The three models, which range in size from 12 to 17...
Cyber-Security: Is the Govt Doing Enough?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Internet is inherently insecure, and the government is no longer providing sufficient funding to help correct the problem, so said a leading...
Lend Lease Constructs HighRise for Security
John Miles knew he had problems. For eight straight quarters, security auditors had pegged the network at his employer, global real estate and construction...
Can Microsoft Take a Page from Open Source?
While Microsoft Corp. will not actually deliver any new bits at the VSLive Conference in San Francisco next week, the company will share the...
Law Firm Tackles Security Needs
For the law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, there was no catastrophic incident—no defaced Web site or data theft—that pushed IT administrators to...
Group to Divide Linux Standards Base
BURLINGAME, Calif.—The Free Standards Group has decided to move away from a single, core LSB (Linux Standards Base) specification, and is instead going to...
AMDs Processor Share Climbs
Advanced Micro Devices climbed to its best quarter in the past two years in terms of processor sales, an analyst said Monday.Analyst firm Mercury...