eWEEK EDITORS

European antitrust regulators on Thursday wrapped up two days of inquiry into Oracles proposed takeover of PeopleSoft. The European Commission, which has until May 11 to rule on the takeover, heard arguments from customers, competitors and PeopleSoft. For its part, SAP once again backed up Oracles arguments in defense of the takeover. Read the full […]

On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. notified some of its SQL Server 2005 testers that they are eligible to join the next phase of the “Yukon” beta program. As noted in a beta tester e-mail note posted on the ieXbeta Web site, Microsoft is seeking customers to join its Technology Adoption Program (TAP) beta program for its […]

Editors Note: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a company-wide e-mail to Microsoft employees on Friday, outlining for them the terms of the $1.6 billion Sun settlement/technology pact between the two companies. Here is the text of Ballmers e-mail obtained by Microsoft Watch: Today Im pleased to announce that Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have settled all […]

Janet Perna has seen IBMs data management business evolve from being a relatively small unit heavily weighted toward a DB2 relational database for the mainframe to being a billion-dollar software business with database, content management and integration products for mainframe and distributed computing environments. With an eye on perennial database competitor Oracle Corp. and the […]

Editors Note: A security alert is presented daily to eWEEK.com readers by iDefense Inc., a security research company based in Reston, Va. /zimages/1/72206.gif Severity: High Analysis: (iDEFENSE US) Remote exploitation of a new IP fragmentation attack present in multiple operating systems (such as Microsoft Corp.s Windows, Linux and Cisco Systems, Inc.s Cisco IOS) can result […]

84% of CIOs say they calculate ROI for the initial justification of IT projects 46% of CIOs say they calculate ROI after projects are completed 32% say their payback projections are not credible to the business 17% say they generally trust the ROI information provided by vendors 68% say their ROI practices have had a […]

Fortinet Inc. this week introduced a new VPN client software that will provide users with a complete suite of new features, including an IPSec VPN client, personal firewall, antivirus protection, intrusion detection and Windows registry alerts. The new software, titled FortiClient Host Security Software, marks a new strategic direction for Fortinet–a direction that now focuses […]

The nations top software companies this week conceded that new government regulations may be needed to strengthen the nations vital computer networks from online attack, a shift away from their traditional stance against regulation. The National Cyber Security Partnership said that government intervention could be necessary in dealing with software that is responsible for insuring […]

Cable companies want rewritable DVDs in future set-tops to archive video, but studios are lobbying the network providers to build a security mechanism into the DVD players, according to Ken Morse, vice president of client architecture at Scientific-Atlanta Inc. The current scheme under discussion is preventing disks made on a set-top burner from being played […]

Last year more viruses raced across the Internet than ever, according to a new study from ICSA Labs. The approximate 300 companies surveyed in the ninth annual ICSA Labs Virus Prevalence Survey reported 2.7 million virus encounters in all of 2003. The survey shows that 88 percent of respondents think that malicious code is somewhat […]

Two years ago, when Rick Carey was chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, he was crazy about Linux and especially about Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor. At the time, he was leading the charge to migrate all of the computer systems at Merrill to Linux. But these days, things have changed. Carey, who is […]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies this week announced Travelstar 4K40, a ruggedized version of its 2.5-inch mobile disk drive. The company said it has increased the shock rating for the drive. In addition, Hitachi has doubled the drives rating for load and unload cycles and improved the mechanisms actuator arm. Read the full story at SearchStorage.com