Lisa Vaas

F5 Networks will release at the end of February an enhanced version of its FirePass Controller SSL VPN software—the first Secure Sockets Layer VPN to support Microsofts Windows Vista operating system, the company said. Given that business users are already using Vista on home machines regardless of whether they have their IT departments go-ahead, VPN […]

How embarrassing is this: a fix for a bug in Microsoft’s Malware Protection Engine, used by security products including Windows Defender, OneCare and Antigen in malware scanning, tucked into the 20-patch February security bulletin. Yes, they shipped a fix for the heart of Vista’s much-touted, much-more-secure Vista. Easy target, particularly since Microsoft actually quietly patched […]

Even before its bitter battle to take over PeopleSoft, Oracle had a reputation for ruthlessness, thanks to its notoriously heavy-handed sales force and penchant for devouring other companies. So its not surprising Oracles announcement that it will support Red Hat Enterprise Linux and distribute an Oracle-branded clone of RHEL triggered fears of Red Hats demise […]

IBM on Oct. 16 announced a new species of server: the IBM Information Server. The new server is all about grafting formally siloed information-handling products such as data cleansing and profiling platforms into one product with a common interface. IBM unveiled the Information Server at its first Information on Demand Global Conference in Anaheim, Calif. […]

BOSTON—Theres nothing quite as sad as a wireless broadband show without connectivity. “Check back later, after they work out the bugs,” said the marketing communications manager at Expediences in-your-face-at-the-door, floor-dominating booth at WiMax World here Oct. 11. Here Expedience was, having plopped a two-sector base station on top of the Seaport Hotel, and having paid […]

BOSTON—In a booth outfitted to look like a comfy living room, replete with couch and streamed network TV showing on a widescreen IPTV, Nortel on Oct. 10 unveiled what its calling the first end-to-end mobile MIMO-powered WiMax setup to deliver 4G mobile broadband content. That includes Internet everywhere, mobile video, VOIP, streaming media, data applications […]

Way back in 2004, we noted in eWEEK that VOIP remained relatively obscure to everyone but large enterprises. A June 2004 report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, for example, found that just 27 percent of U.S. Internet users had heard of Internet telephony. Theres been a lot of action in the small […]

Oracle spruced up one of its recently acquired embeddable databases, Berkeley DB, releasing on Sept. 27 Version 4.5 with multi-version concurrency control and more. The new features are designed to improve performance, availability and ease-of-use for developers of the open-source database. One of the major goodies in the update is the ability of developers to […]

Avokia is claiming to have strung out the most far-flung database cluster ever with its user, Espressocode. The cluster runs between Toronto and San Francisco, or 2,266 miles. Espressocode, a maker of software for the freight and customs industries, is using ApLive technology, which Avokia rolled out at Demo in Phoenix in February, to pull […]

Avokia is claiming to have strung out the most farflung database cluster ever, between Toronto and San Francisco, or 2,266 miles. Espressocode, maker of software for the freight and customs industries, is using ApLive technology, which Avokia rolled out at Demo in February, to pull IBM DB2 databases together in an active and load-balanced cluster […]

The day we were writing this editorial, we couldnt help but notice news reports that intruders had busted into a liquefied natural gas facility a few miles south of eWEEKs Woburn, Mass., editorial office. KeySpan Energy didnt catch the breach until five days after it happened because officials failed, until then, to review a surveillance […]

First, rumor had it that Oracle was buying JBoss. Didnt happen. Then Larry Ellison reportedly was dissing Red Hat support and making noises about Oracle stepping in to provide that support. Oracle went (typically) mute about any supposed plans put forth by its free-wheeling head, Mr. “I-dont-check-with-no-stinkin-media-relations-before-I-open-my-mouth” Ellison. Then there was last week at LinuxWorld, […]