eWEEK EDITORS

Its probably a good thing that the political leadership changes every so often in Washington, D.C. The treadmill stops. Hordes of bedraggled people step off and stand blinking at the sunlight. A new batch of eager policy wonks climbs on board. The treadmill veterans often remain in Washington, nursing themselves back to vigor at law […]

MessageLabs, a British managed security service provider, will officially enter the U.S. market this week promising customers a full refund if any viruses get through its e-mail protection offering. The service, called SkyScan, combines three commercial software packages, as well as MessageLabs proprietary antivirus technology, into one scanner to filter out viruses from a companys […]

If you think a “Smurf” is a three-inch-tall blue character or that an e-mail attachment headed “ILoveYou” is a note from your husband, Security Transformation may be of value to you. If youre a security guru, however, you can skip this one. The book, co-authored by the global chair of KPMGs Information, Communications and Entertainment […]

At a time when Microsoft is warning of the perils of open source code, Korean Air is mounting one of the biggest mission-critical deployments using Linux open source software. Korean Air said last week that it has moved its flight crew scheduling and daily revenue accounting systems to Linux running on an IBM mainframe at […]

Egrail Inc. said it has simplified the processes for monitoring and completing Web site content creation tasks. The customizable workflow module is part of the Bethesda, Md., companys newest content management tool, the eGrail Enterprise Content Management Server 4.0. Company officials tout the servers ease of use and implementation—its an open architecture with pure Web […]

Web sites are struggling to find ways to move their content around and keep it up-to-date. Eprise Corp.s newly announced Eprise Content Deployment Suite, a content management offering, could be an answer. ECDS, which is used in conjunction with the EPS (Eprise Participant Server) product, enables businesses to restore, replicate and distribute content across a […]

It was more than a year ago when Oracle Corp. unveiled plans for an online file storage service. Last week—14 months later—the Redwood Shores, Calif., software company finally gave product details of the service. But regarding pricing and availability, other than to say that basic levels of the service may be free, officials said only […]

Startup software vendor InterSAN Inc. is hoping to stand out in the already-crowded parade of enterprise storage management. In an area occupied by such heavyweights as Computer Associates International Inc., IBMs Tivoli division and Veritas Software Corp., InterSAN plans to carve its niche with software designed to manage the applications that enterprises run on top […]

The effort to push an open source database system into competition with commercial products is anything but friendly, with two companies locked in a fierce battle. NuSphere thinks the time is right for open source system MySQL to compete with commercial database systems, such as Oracle. But it knows that prospect is dim as long […]

Microsoft may be laying the groundwork for future control points even as it blesses the creation of an open source version of its .Net platform. One such possible choke point, critics said, could emerge from Microsofts powerful alliance with digital certificate provider VeriSign, which has agreed to provide greater security for .Net technologies and adopt […]

The demand to create web services means that I-managers are scrambling to get their Web applications to work with their legacy systems. Acquisitions and partnerships among integration vendors over the past year are making the job easier, but each vendor still brings a set of strengths and weaknesses to the task that must be carefully […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has initiated a program to replace some of its Sun Ray devices after finding a problem that can cause the systems to fail. The problem, which is tied to the systems power supply, can also cause the devices to emit a small amount of smoke. The Palo Alto, Calif., company discovered the […]