eWEEK EDITORS

An open letter to Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, responding to remarks at Suns February 2004 analyst meeting. The open-source community has been hearing reports that you have recently said of Sun Microsystems strategy “The open-source model is our friend”. Were glad to hear that, and Suns support of OpenOffice.org certainly puts some weight behind […]

Microsoft officially notified selected customers and partners late last week that it has decided against delivering an integrated E-business server bundle in 2005, as planned. Microsoft has decided to move ahead with plans to deliver its BizTalk Server 2004 product, but has axed —at least temporarily plans to deliver a follow-on suite consisting of BizTalk, […]

Theres one burning question facing IBM, Oracle and Microsoft—the worlds biggest database vendors—nowadays. Namely, How do you compete with code thats being given away? Read the full story at Fortune.

The European Commission will decide by May 11 whether Oracles proposed takeover of PeopleSoft breaks its competition laws. Read the full story at The Register.

Convoq will announce this week at the Demo show in Scottsdale, Ariz., the general availability of its ASAP online meeting service. ASAP combines instant messaging, audio conferencing, videoconferencing and Web presentations in one product, delivered via the Web with Flash plug-ins. Contacts can be accessed or invited to meetings via IM, and users can click […]

eBay is expanding its developer program to support more Web services protocols and programming languages, the company announced last week during the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. eBays announcement meshed with one of the key themes outlined during the opening day of the conference: that major Web players such as eBay, Amazon and […]

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the approval of two Semantic Web technologies as standards—RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). RDF and OWL set methods for sharing and reusing data on the Web, as well as for asset management and enterprise integration. The Semantic Web is an extension of the Web […]

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, will use an IBM supercomputer to predict the impact of global warming on Earth up to 300 years into the future. The supercomputer, called the Earth System Modeling Framework, or ESMF, will enable researchers at the universitys Department of Earth System Science to simulate how pressures on the […]

News item: as reported on the securityfocus Web site, after two years of operation, a government-funded research project intended to carry out open-source security auditing is shutting down. So, open sources critics must be right: Theres never a free lunch. It would be best for everyone to head back, chastened, to the arms of big […]

Nine out of ten UK employees are unwilling to take any responsibility for securing their work computers, according to a survey by Novell UK. Those surveyed said the responsibility rested with their employers IT department, Microsoft or the government. “Unless UK businesses start to take user education seriously, we are going to see the impact […]

Network Appliance Inc. recently unveiled a range of new NAS products and technologies. NetApps new storage gateway that is compatible with IBMs SAN products. The company designed its gFiler to work with IBMs TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server and FAStT products after IBM provided APIs and interfaces to NetApp. The company also introduced two new high-end […]

NetScreen Technologies Inc. this week announced an upgrade to its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN line. The companys Secure Access appliances allow users to access server-based information using any device equipped with a Web browser. The new version offers enhanced abilities for controlling access to various server-based files and supports multiple host names. Juniper Networks […]