Oracle Chief Financial Officer and Co-President Greg Maffei resigned late Thursday after just four months on the job, making him the third CFO to leave the post during the past two years.
Registration has opened for beta versions of exams required for MCTS and MCPD certifications.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/03/2005
Microsoft is planning to post one patch next week as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletin release cycle. The patch will fix a flaw in Windows with a maximum severity rating of critical.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/03/2005
Quest Software this week announced a new product that is designed to increase e-mail availability for Exchange users.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/03/2005
In the wake of this week’s announcement of Windows Live and Office Live, Microsoft announced the acquisition Thursday of an online service with a technology that dovetails with those plans.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/03/2005
From the business wires this week: an event log monitoring tool, Active Directory troubleshooting tool, code generator for .NET and a hacking contest.
Sun Microsystems announced this week that it is working on two new on-demand services, both targeted at users who need to convert text files to other formats.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/02/2005
The U.S. Supreme Court isn't hearing Microsoft's arguments that any eventual penalty in the Eolas Technologies patent case involving Internet Explorer be cut by about two-thirds.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/01/2005
Microsoft’s version of a totally integrated world where computing power surrounds and works with people seamlessly is taking a giant step closer to reality. At least, that was the pitch from chief software architect and chairman Bill Gates and chief technical officer Ray Ozzie Tuesday as they rolled out a new batch of services, some already in beta testing, dubbed Windows Live and Office Live.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/01/2005
Oracle says it has begun beta testing a free, although limited, version of its 10g database designed for developers and students.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/01/2005
Microsoft partners rally to raise donations and keep businesses afloat, while Microsoft also chips in.
- By Paul Desmond
- 11/01/2005
Microsoft aims to leverage synergies between its partner and small business divisions.
Not only will Microsoft Office “12” feature the ability to save files in PDF format, it will also -- no surprise -- support the company’s own challenger to Adobe’s popular Portable Document Format (PDF) file format.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/01/2005
Microsoft will begin supporting Exchange servers in virtual machines under certain conditions later this month, the company said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/01/2005
Microsoft executive shuffle has ramifications for customers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/01/2005
Veteran Microsoft executive Bob Muglia will fill one of the key holes left by the executive reorganization that Microsoft unveiled in September.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/01/2005
A Q&A with Peter Ells, business development manager for Software ONE.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/01/2005
At least Sun's Scott McNealy is back in the fray.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/01/2005
EqualLogic’s PS Series receives the Simple SAN for Windows Server designation from Microsoft.