Microsoft on Tuesday made one of its occasional noises about integration with a competitor when it trumpeted a new tool for wiring Oracle databases to applications developed in the .NET Framework.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 23, 2002
Market research firm IDC released its annual report on messaging and collaboration Tuesday, concluding that the market is growing in number of seats but shrinking in revenues.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 23, 2002
The latest beta of IBM Corp.’s relational database server, DB2, has hit the Web, revealing what will come in the next release. When version 8 is released later this year, it will include new management features and Web services functionality.
Microsoft is scheduled to discuss its earnings this evening for the fourth quarter of the 2002 fiscal year and for the entire year, which ended June 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 18, 2002
Simultaneous with the Itanium 2 processor launch last week, Microsoft began taking nominations for the SQL Server 2000 64-bit beta program.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 18, 2002
Groups independent of Microsoft have put out a new free tool for securely configuring Windows 2000 desktops.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 18, 2002
Hewlett-Packard racked up some records on standard business benchmarks using its new servers built on the Itanium 2 processor, the Limited Edition of Windows Advanced Server and beta code of 64-bit SQL Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2002
In the wake of Intel's launch of its second-generation 64-bit processors, Unisys this week unveiled its plans for its next generation of Wintel mainframes. Unisys is packaging a new line of its big boxes to make it attractive in more cost-conscious markets. The new servers will roll out over the next few months.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2002
Microsoft is finally getting comfortable enough with its Exchange 2000 market adoption to trumpet some numbers.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 16, 2002
Microsoft for the first time publicly discussed details of the next version of its Exchange messaging and groupware platform, code-named Titanium. Titanium will incorporate new features, but Microsoft officials say it will constitute an “evolutionary” upgrade from Exchange 2000.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 15, 2002
Microsoft-centric database administrators were greeted last week with a pair of security bulletins about new problems with SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE).
- By Scott Bekker
- July 15, 2002
Is business process integration worth the trouble? Over the past year, there's been a lot of industry buzz around the topic of business process integration, or – as it’s often referred to in its broader context – business process management. Many EAI vendors have widened their offerings to include BPI functionality. Not to be left out of the action, Microsoft positions its BizTalk Server as a BPI server and modeling environment that employs Web services protocols to link application sets. However, many experts question the value of approaches being undertaken in the name of BPI.
- By Joe McKendrick
- July 11, 2002
Many enterprise developers and IT shops are beginning to build applications around Microsoft's .NET architecture and BizTalk Server, which supports common standards, including XML. Will Web services change the course of Enterprise Application Integration, and even make it more accessible to smaller to mid-size IT shops? The market space could become another example of a familiar tale: An expensive customized approach swamped by a less functional alternative that costs much, much less.
- By Joe McKendrick
- July 10, 2002
Looking to sell high-end system buyers on its version of the 64-bit architecture, Intel has been discussing an entire 64-bit roadmap in conjunction with its Itanium 2 launch to assure customers that it is committed to the high-end market.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2002
Pricing for Intel's second generation of 64-bit processors will be fairly similar to the chipmaker's pricing for the first generation.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2002
Intel on Monday formally launched the Itanium 2.
The much-anticipated processor is the second-generation of Intel's
64-bit processor technology and the one that many industry
participants have predicted would mark the entrance of Windows/Intel
servers to the 64-bit space that RISC and Unix have occupied for years.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2002
Microsoft officially entered the 64-bit computing fray when it introduced its Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition last year. Microsoft’s 64-bit story has gotten dramatically better in the last 12 months.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 08, 2002
Better get used to supporting those mobile workers. They're not going anywhere, or rather, they're not going to disappear. A study released this week by market research firm IDC predicts that the percentage of mobile workers will increase to 66 percent of the workforce by 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2002
Microsoft reissued the security bulletin for a chunked encoding vulnerability in its IIS Web server this week to upgrade the severity rating of the problem to "critical."
The decision to rerelease the bulletin comes after a similar vulnerability was discovered in the Apache Web Server and worms have been developed to exploit the flaws.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2002
Microsoft is carrying out a security investigation into problems with its Microsoft Office Web Components, a client-side technology for making Web pages more dynamic that has come to be used in many companies' server-side applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2002