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EV1Servers CEO Robert Marsh says he realizes his company might be “vilified” for signing a licensing agreement with The SCO Group, becoming the first publicly identified company to have paid SCO to settle its disputed legal claims involving Linux. But Marsh said the company acted to protect its customers, some of whom were expressing concern […]

From a marketing standpoint, Microsofts worst nightmare, re: Windows XP, has come to pass. Just when the Redmond software giant looked like it might be building some momentum for Windows XP, word leaked of a possible interim release between XP and Longhorn. Read More on the Rumored Shorthorn Here Think this through: If you are […]

MCI/WorldCom this week unveiled a new service level agreement (SLA) to help IP services customers thwart and defend against Internet viruses and threats. The new SLA is focused on Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and it ensures that all MCI Internet customers will have immediate access to the companys security staff to help them rapidly […]

The solution to digital piracy is new business models, not legal action and regulatory mandates, according to a new report by the Committee for Economic Development (CED). The group recommends experimentation with digital rights management (DRM) systems while refraining from government mandates to include specific technologies. Hastily enacted laws and regulations could have unintended consequences […]

Utahs House of Representatives passed the first-ever RFID privacy bill last week, 47-23. The bill requires all goods bearing functioning RFID tags in stores to be labeled as such. The bill will take effect May 5, 2005, if it is approved by the Utah state Senate and Utah Gov. Olene S. Walker. Read the full […]

Several U.S. government and industry bodies are behind an effort to stop a proposed Chinese proprietary wireless encryption standard. The scheme is incompatible with the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Advanced Encryption Scheme (AES) schemes currently used by the IEEE in its 802.11x standards. Frank Vargo, vice president of international affairs at the National Association […]

Right after dropping hints that it is readying new initiatives to combat the growth and popularity of open-source software overseas, Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Tuesday that it is offering a low-priced Windows bundle to Malaysian users. A company spokesman said Microsoft had just announced an agreement with Malaysia to offer a localized bundle of XP Home […]

Note: This is an expanded version of the interview that ran in eWEEKs print edition. Not long ago, IBMs server business was a fragmented collection of fiefdoms, the disparate product lines running in parallel with one another. The result was a server business that was beginning to tank. But over the past few years, IBM […]

Microsoft is planning to “service” its 2002 and 2003 versions of the .Net Framework and Visual Studio tool suite in order to insure they will work properly with Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2. But versions of the .Net Framework and Visual Studio suite that predate 2002 wont be upgraded, a company spokesman said, as […]

One Indian DBA says you get more for your money when you shop India for IT. One U.S. IT pro says you get what you pay for, which, in his opinion, is shoddy code that lacks even standard indentation. These and more opinions on offshore outsourcing are as passionate as they are varied. Read the […]

IHOP, the prince of pancakes, is using Oracles Web services-based Customer Data Hub to pull together information from incompatible applications and to create a single recording system for customer data. Read the full story at SearchOracle.com. /zimages/5/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms Database Center at http://database.eweek.com for more database news, views and analysis. Be sure to add our […]

Microsoft Corp.s presence server—MapPoint Location Server—is looking like it will launch finally at the DevCon show in San Francisco in March. MapPoint Location Server has undergone at least two name changes in the past year and a half. Last summer, Microsoft rechristened the product, which originally was known as Microsoft Enterprise Location Server (MELS), as […]