eWEEK EDITORS

Stung by falling sales and shrinking market share, Compaq Computer Corp. is abandoning what it called its “more prudent” sales approach and is now preparing for a war on pricing. The worlds largest PC vendor, after warning late last week that earnings were falling short of projections, vowed to slash costs, streamline its business and […]

As if we needed another one, the vulnerabilities recently found in the widely used Berkeley Internet Name Domain server (see www.cert.org/summaries/CS-2001-01.html) should serve as a fresh reminder that its an insecure e-world out there. Anyone planning to do business on the Internet needs to be well-fortified, vigilant and prepared to react rapidly to known security […]

A spate of recent computer attacks indicates that software fixes distributed after the fact cannot make the Internet safe, and are themselves too numerous and too burdensome to install. From hackers theft of the Windows blueprints from Microsoft last October, to Russian gangsters robbery of thousands of credit-card numbers last week, to kids launch of […]

Even as corporate foes of federal privacy regulation champion the release of new data detailing the lofty cost of such rules to businesses and consumers, behind the scenes the industry remains as fractured as ever on the issue. The divisions are apparent even within the Online Privacy Alliance, a coalition of 80 leading corporations aimed […]

Denial-of-service attacks, typically launched by malicious hackers from commandeered servers, can be stopped with security products that can detect and block outgoing attacks, security experts said. But Internet service providers and hosted services need to invest in such products before distributed denial-of-service attacks will cease to be a feature of the Internet, they said. Such […]

Heres a sampling: Be: Apple discussed buying this OS company in 1996 but instead opted to acquire NeXT in 1997. Be was founded by Apple veteran Jean-Louis Gassée. Copland: A Mac OS upgrade under development from 1994 to 1996. It became one of Apples biggest software disasters. Copland consumed $250 million in R&D in 1996 […]

A quarter later than it was expected to be delivered, Microsoft Corp. announced last week general availability of its Application Center 2000 product. Heralded by the company as one of the keystones for its .Net strategy, Application Center 2000 promises greater scalability and centralized management. The server product, which requires Windows 2000, manages applications across […]

Supply-Chain Management (SCM) software maker i2 Technologies Inc. is working to become a powerhouse in a market that up until now has been a two-horse race. The SCM supplier jumped in with its agreement to acquire RightWorks Corp., the No. 3 player behind leaders Ariba Inc. and Commerce One Inc., in the Internet markets platform […]

Expanets Buys Hosting — and So Much More In what may be the largest deal to date in the application service provider business, network communications provider Expanets has signed a $22 million, five-year contract with Qwest Cyber.Solutions. According to the agreement, QCS will host Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning and Siebel Systems customer resource management applications […]

With echoes from Jim Allchins attacks on open-source development models, particularly the GNU General Public License, still reverberating, Microsoft moved in recent weeks to quietly expand its Enterprise Source Licensing Program. The pilot program, which makes Windows 2000 client and server source code available only to the companys largest corporate users, is not yet an […]