eWEEK EDITORS

The lifecycle clock is ticking for a number of older versions of Windows. At the end of every calendar year, Microsoft Corp. pushes more products out to pasture. The company revised its support policy last October so that it now offers a minimum of five years of “mainstream support” (measured from the date of a […]

Microsoft XML Architect Don Box signed on with Microsoft in January, 2002, after a long career of consulting and writing about Microsoft from the outside. Box co-founded the software think tank and training company DevelopMentor. He is the author of several books on Microsofts Component Object Model (COM), one of the precursors to Simple Object […]

Editors Note: On Thursday, Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of software at Sun Microsystems Inc., published on Suns Web site an open letter to Microsoft customers. Schwartzs letter came in response to Microsofts decision to remove from all its sales channels a number of products that use the Java Virtual Machine. Microsofts move will be […]

Microsoft Corp. is putting the pedal to the metal to get beta releases of two of its most important service packs into the hands of beta testers before the holidays. On Wednesday night, Microsoft released to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site the first beta of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2. SP2, which is […]

The Security Event Management (SEM) market could grow to $430 million by 2008, according to a Yankee Group report released this week. The $90 million SEM market also could witness as much as 50 percent market consolidation in 2004, said report author Phebe Waterfield. SEM systems that enable network administrators to identify, manage and respond […]

According to a recent anti-spam roundtable discussion, spammers are rational and do what they do for profit. If spam filters are properly utilized and adopted, then the reduction in email to potential victims will not allow many spammers to stay afloat. Moderator John Gallant and a panel of anti-spam and e-mail experts discuss how to […]

One new trend was introduced in 2003: More worm writers were motivated by profit, and thats likely to continue next year. Some experts contend that there is a connection between malicious code writers and spammers. Also, blended threats arent going away. Experts warn of more worms like SQL Slammer and Blaster. Mass-mailer worms were far […]

As early as this week, the Chicago City Council is to vote on a proposal to ban the use of camera phones in public bathrooms, locker rooms and showers. Chicago Alderman Edward M. Burke wanted to ban the use of camera phones in places where “the average Chicagoan would expect a reasonable right to privacy.” […]

The code of open-source database MySQL is six times cleaner than that of proprietary databases, according to a survey conducted by Reasoning, an automated software inspection service provider. Read the full story at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.

Oracles 15 percent rise in quarterly profits beat financial analysts expectations. Read the full story at The Straits Times.

Life sciences company MDS Inc. will standardize its HR, supply chain management, contract management and other key areas on Oracles E-Business Suite. Read the full story at ITbusiness.ca.

In this, Part 4 of a series on programming T-SQL, Gregory Larsen details how to set variables in calling T-SQL code while using sp_executesql. Read the full story at DBAzine.com.