eWEEK EDITORS

The downturn in the economy and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have accelerated interest in e-learning and Web conferencing. And while that should fuel even more growth in the rapidly growing sector, analysts predict that a shakeout — with considerable consolidation among the players — is looming. In recent years, I-managers at dozens of Fortune […]

Suit Grows InterTrust Technologies, a maker of digital rights management software, expanded its patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that Microsofts .Net infringes on seven InterTrust patents and at least 50 InterTrust patent claims. Microsoft has countersued InterTrust, claiming InterTrust violates two of Microsofts patents. Sprint Slows Sprint will stop adding customers to its fixed […]

With storage hardware becoming more of a commodity, vendors are turning toward software development—specifically, storage management. Established companies such as Hitachi Ltd. and BMC Software Inc. are joining startups in developing software designed to tie together the myriad storage products and to manage the data that flows through them. “Theyve got all the hardware out […]

BellSouth is rolling out a new slate of storage and voice recognition services for enterprise customers that it says will allow it to grab its share of bits and bytes in a world where data is king. “Eighteen months ago, no one was interested in [the regional Bells] take on the Internet. We were Old […]

Standing before a group of reporters at the CeBIT fair in Hannover, Germany, last March, EMC Corp. Chairman Mike Ruettgers began to deliver what had become his standard marketing pitch—enterprise storage needs were about to soar as Internet business expanded. And at the head of that growth curve, he assured the crowd, would be EMC. […]

The Problem A small insurance office wants to back up its two servers every day, and 20 Windows 98 laptops once per week. The two servers are Pentium 4 Compaq Proliants with Windows NT Server 4.0. One server runs SQL Server and a custom insurance application; the other system runs Exchange Server. Please recommend a […]

Computer Associates International is continuing to battle the Department of Justice, after the agency last month hit the company with a lawsuit alleging antitrust violations in connection with CAs $3.5 billion acquisition of Platinum Technology International in May 1999. The DOJs suit alleges that the two companies prematurely reduced competition between them by agreeing to […]

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After IBMs purchase of the Informix database company this April, many Informix customers have debated where their best interest lies in developing future applications. Many were users of Informix 4GL, a fourth-generation programming language with ties to the database system. Now a small company from San Jose, Costa Rica, may have the answer. ArtinSoft is […]

Troubled managed bandwidth venture CoreExpress could be preparing for a soft landing this week: A large network operator has made an offer to take over the company, people familiar with the situation say. Those sources are keeping the name of the potential buyer secret, although potential candidates include Enron Communications, Level 3 Communications and Williams […]