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Sun last week revised its fiscal fourth-quarter financial results with a $1.05 billion charge. Suns revised fourth-quarter results indicate a $1.04 billion loss for the period ending June 30. The company previously reported a small profit of $12 million. In a statement, Sun officials said the reason for the charge was “to increase a valuation […]

As the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) countdown clock ticks down — at this writing, were 19 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes away from the Longhorn stampede, according to one enthusiasts Web site — its a good time to start separating Longhorn fact from fiction. Check Out ScottWs PDC Countdown Clock (under “News”) This feat […]

Here are a variety of storage-related stories from around the Web. The subjects include storage hardware and software as well as financial news and industry trends related to the storage market. Hardware Promise Introduces Hot-Swap Serial ATA Drive Enclosure Promise Technology Inc. recently announced the availability of its SuperSwap 1100, a drive enclosure for Serial […]

Here are a variety of storage-related stories from around the Web. The subjects include storage hardware and software as well as financial news and industry trends related to the storage market. Hardware Toshiba Preps Low-Noise Blue Laser Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp. next week will show off a new blue-violet diode laser with record low […]

Brand-new small-business wares — including the Microsoft Business Network, Windows Small Business Server 2003 and new demand-planning modules for its Great Plains and Axapta applications — are expected to be among the highlights of Microsofts Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans next week in New Orleans. At the same time, no Microsoft gathering these days […]

Brand-new small-business wares — including the Microsoft Business Network, Windows Small Business Server 2003 and new demand-planning modules for its Great Plains and Axapta applications — are expected to be among the highlights of Microsofts Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans next week in New Orleans. At the same time, no Microsoft gathering these days […]

Jeremy Allaire, an industry thought leader and software visionary, left his job as chief technology officer at Macromedia Inc. this year to become technologist-in-residence at Cambridge, Mass.-based venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners. Prior to joining Macromedia, Allaire was a founder of Allaire Corp., which merged with Macromedia. Allaire Corp. built the popular ColdFusion development […]

Enterprise Symantec this week released its semiannual Internet Security Threat Report, and the results were not pretty. In the past six months, Web application vulnerabilities increased 12 percent, malicious codes were up 20 percent, and worms and viruses increased 19 percent, according to the report. The report also noted an increase in the number of […]

Just when you thought Microsoft was impermeable to security lawsuits, as a result of careful wording in its licensing terms and conditions, a group of Californians are poised to levy a class-action suit against the Redmond software maker as a result of continued security breaches. The suit, filed Tuesday, cites unfair competition and privacy violations, […]

While jobs continued to be lost during the jobless recovery, other positive economic news helped to slightly boost this months Confidence Meter survey, conducted from August 21 through September 4. The period saw advances in both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Exchange. Consumer confidence rose too, as measured by the Conference Board, from […]

The results of this months research are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. (To download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in, click here.) Are Successful Leaders Born or Made? 81% Of CIOs Believe Leadership Can Be Taught 68% Say Their Companies Overall Quality of Leadership is High 74% Of CIOs are on their companies executive […]

It will come as no surprise to readers that, according to this months survey, men overwhelmingly outnumber women in IT leadership positions (86.1 percent versus 13.9 percent). What is surprising, however, is that 16.4 percent of IT executives over 40 are female, while only 7.8 percent of those under 40 are—less than half as many. […]