Timothy Dyck

Shortly after 3 a.m. EST last Thursday, eWeeks third Openhack interactive security test finished its 17-day run with all prizes remaining unclaimed. This is eWeek Labs first Openhack test in three tries that hasnt been penetrated successfully, and the credit goes to Argus Systems Group Inc.s PitBull line of operating systems and to the Argus […]

To deploy or not to deploy?” That is the question eWeek Labs posed to eWeeks Corporate Partners—and it is a question that is sure to be lingering in many IT shops regarding Windows 2000. It has been almost a year since Windows 2000, arguably the most hyped product in recent years, was unleashed on the […]

Putty, Simon Tathams quietly developed SSH client, has become one of my most often used tools over the past several months, particularly during eWeek Labs ongoing Openhack III security test. Secure Shell, a secure, remote-terminal protocol, is a basic tool for administering secure Unix-based systems, and I use it instead of Telnet whenever I can. […]

The Linux 2.4 kernel is the first kernel the enterprise helped build, and it shows. Driven by the demands of enterprise customers, enterprise applications and intensive benchmarking (some of which was carried out by eWeek Labs), the Linux 2.4 kernel has far more of an enterprise focus than ever before. In particular, storage manageability, capacity […]

The battle has begun, and the first salvo was a fierce one, as a cascade of denial-of-service attacks swept over the Openhack III site in its first four days of operation. As of midday Thursday, no one had succeeded in any of the four hacking goals, although eWeek Labs saw creative DoS attacks directed against […]

Developers using Microsoft tools who want to design distributed Web applications should download the companys SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Beta 1 at msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/soap1and2.asp. The tool kit provides a set of tools and sample code (the samples are written in Visual Basic right now, not C or C++) for using Simple Object Access Protocol in Web applications. […]

In our continuing quest to find and evaluate the best ways to secure digital infrastructure, eWeek once again invites hackers from around the world to examine, probe and crack into four servers accessible from the Internet. In eWeek Labs past two annual tests, we built our site using a classic IT security design: We used […]

Depending on which industry analyst or database executive eWeek Labs asks, we hear estimates that between 70 percent and 95 percent of the worlds data is stored only in unstructured formats such as word processing documents, HTML files and e-mail. This information is found outside of the cozy, well-managed confines of a database server and […]

Boldly going where no database has gone before, Oracle Corp.s Oracle8i Release 3 is a lot more than a database. Oracle8i is now also a file, mail, Web and Java2 Enterprise Edition application server. Oracles development teams are backing up Larry Ellisons mantra of fewer, bigger servers, and its up to customers now to decide […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s upcoming Forte for Java 2.0 Internet Edition updates and expands the companys midlevel Java development tool to focus on the tasks Web application developers face. eWeek Labs tested a release-candidate version of the $495 package; its scheduled to ship in early January. New features in this release include extensive support for the […]

Theres some sincere flattery of Linux going on at Microsoft these days. As we wrote in these pages in August, a prototype version of Tux, Red Hats kernel-level Web server and cache, blew away all other contenders in SPECweb99 Web benchmark tests, including Microsofts IIS (Internet Information Server) Web server, which ran at about 40 […]

Akopia Inc.s dramatically updated Web storefront, Interchange, has transformed itself from a somewhat raw storefront programming kit into a polished, packaged offering that is now close to (although not yet the equal of) high-end commercial players. Despite the minor-sounding version number, Interchange 4.6 is a major change from prior releases. The package, which shipped in […]