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Staying on top of your organization’s software licenses will keep you gainfully employed and out of court.
06/01/2002
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Patchlink Update 3.0 systematically keeps your network up to date.
06/01/2002
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Staying on top of your organization’s software licenses will keep you gainfully employed and out of court.
06/01/2002
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Test driving Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, a DVD training pack from David Solomon Seminars.
06/01/2002
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Microsoft's collaborator on the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) released an enhanced version of the tool of its own. Shavlik Technologies this week released EnterpriseInspector 2.0 for vulnerability assessment of Microsoft environments.
05/30/2002
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Administrators should have more granular control over storage quotas in future versions of Windows under an agreement between Microsoft and Precise Software.
05/30/2002
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The latest version of Web-to-host software from host access vendor WRQ Inc. adds support for directory services, including Microsoft's Active Directory. WRQ this week announced Reflection for the Web 5.0. In addition to the directory support, version 5.0 brings new security and scripting features.
05/29/2002
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NetIQ Corp. is shipping a new version of a Microsoft Exchange tool for helping administrators monitor and understand activity on Exchange servers across the enterprise.
05/29/2002
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German researchers uncovered a critical vulnerability in Exchange 2000 that makes the messaging server vulnerable to a denial of service attack.
05/29/2002
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Intel's Itanium 2 processor is supposed to break open the market for 64-bit standard-high-volume computing, and Intel on Wednesday vowed that the performance of the new chip will not disappoint when it ships later this year.
05/29/2002
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Storage and availability heavyweight Legato Systems got its Networker software certified for the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server platform in another sign of the importance of storage management and availability software for customers of Microsoft's high-end operating system.
05/28/2002
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A software startup with a server-based technology for pushing applications down to Windows clients and running them cleanly has entered an agreement with Microsoft to extend its new solution to a Microsoft .NET-based service.
05/28/2002
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Intel Corp. over the weekend slashed prices on several processor lines, including some Pentium III Server chips. The price cuts appeared mostly aimed at desktop and mobile processors, including the top-of-the-line Pentium 4s.
05/28/2002
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Plus news from ARMTech, FAST Datasearch, LiveVault, and Transcender
05/23/2002
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Application Security, Inc., a New York-based development and consulting company that sells vulnerability assessment and encryption tools for a variety of database and groupware platforms, recently introduced support for SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000. Microsoft Exchange Server is also on AppSec's radar.
05/23/2002
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Scaling back its predictions, analyst firm Giga Information Group issued a report today suggesting flat spending in IT this year. Giga initially predicted modest growth for the year.
05/23/2002
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Microsoft released a patch late Wednesday for a critical flaw in Windows NT and Windows 2000 that could allow users to elevate their privileges on compromised systems.
05/23/2002
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A worm exploiting a password set by default to null in SQL Server is roaring around the Internet, according to several security watchdog groups.
05/22/2002
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AOL-Time Warner subsidiary Netscape Communications put out a preview release of Navigator 7.0, a version of the browser that includes tabbed browsing and built-in radio.
05/22/2002
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Gartner analysts sounded the alarm again this week for users to review their Microsoft software licensing agreements. The July 31 deadline when Licensing 6.0 goes into full force is bearing down quickly.
05/22/2002
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Citrix, the company whose name is practically synonymous with server-based computing in Microsoft environments, reached a new agreement with Microsoft to gain continued access to Windows Server code for three years.
05/21/2002
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Microsoft this week said the next versions of its SharePoint portal and collaboration products will ship in 2003 and will include tight integration with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft's other server software.
05/21/2002
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Microsoft ran into one of its classic security flaps over the latest Internet Explorer cumulative patch. An Israeli security firm, GreyMagic Software, accused Microsoft on Thursday and Friday of failing to address the underlying issues that led to some of the 6 new vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched on Wednesday in MS02-023.
05/20/2002
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Microsoft issued a critical cumulative Internet Explorer patch on Wednesday that corrects six newly discovered vulnerabilities and changes the behavior of the Web browser. The security bulletin, MS02-023, is the third cumulative patch for IE this year and the fifth since November 2001.
05/16/2002
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Per-CPU licensing, electronic updates added to latest version. Plus news from Legato, Raxco, Remotely Anywhere, and SureSync
05/16/2002
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Intel refreshed its value line of desktop processors this week with new Celerons at speeds of 1.7 GHz and 1.4 GHz.
05/16/2002
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Sun plays up the price difference between its StarOffice 6.0 suite and Microsoft Office, while noting interoperability with Microsoft's ubiquitous productivity software. While Sun has raised the price from free, the company still contends that savings over Office licenses start at 75 percent. StarOffice 6.0 hits the market May 21.
05/16/2002
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A hoax circulating around the Internet tells users to delete a legitimate file that is a part of Microsoft's Java middleware.
05/15/2002
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Gartner issued a bulletin this week, "Don't Allow Free Instant Messaging in Your Enterprise," pegged to Microsoft's recent release of a security bulletin fixing a critical vulnerability in MSN Messenger.
05/15/2002
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Longtime Windows storage software vendor OTG Software is officially part of Legato Systems Inc. Both companies' shareholders formally approved the acquisition, Legato announced Tuesday.
05/15/2002
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Cisco on Tuesday introduced a storage router for moving Windows-based enterprise workgroups from direct-attached storage to Storage Area Networks (SANs). Called the Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router, the storage networking platform supports both IP and Fibre Channel switching technologies and costs about $12,000.
05/14/2002
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Maybe they should have called the new combined company “HPaq,” evoking images of the all-knowing and prescient residents of the planet K-Pax. In last fall’s movie by the same name, a visitor from K-Pax seemed to have keen insight on the course of humanity. Indeed, as Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO, and Michael Capellas, president, launched the new HP, which absorbs the former Compaq Computer Corp., they presented a well thought-out roadmap that covered their new company’s role in the uncertain and roller-coaster IT market.
05/14/2002
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Dell made a new rack-optimized server available this week with an option for including two Intel Xeon processors at speeds up to 2.4 GHz. Dell positioned the 2U PowerEdge 2650 as driving down rack-dense server prices with an entry price around $2,400.
05/14/2002
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IBM this week posted demos of Web services built using its tools and server software to get developers to playing with the tools and thinking about ways to incorporate Web services into their businesses.
05/14/2002
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Microsoft said this week it would refresh its Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition, with a new 1.2 version to support the Itanium 2 release.
05/09/2002
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Microsoft on Thursday tightened the integration between two of its most closely related .NET Enterprise Servers -- Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal Server.
05/09/2002
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Microsoft achieved a major milestone in its Unix interoperability plans this week when it released Services for Unix 3.0 to manufacturing. The next steps in the software giant's Unix interoperability roadmap are coming in Windows .NET Server and the follow-on to the recently released Visual Studio .NET.
05/09/2002
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New cert options for MCPs may be in future.
05/09/2002
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Suite now has new diagnostics module for protection, repair and change analysis. Plus news from Winternals, InstallShield, Mice & Men, Trend Micro, O&O, NetOp, and Precise/SiteStor
05/09/2002
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With the Release to Manufacturing this week of Microsoft's Services for Unix 3.0, Microsoft disclosed a significant cut in the price of the Windows-Unix interoperability toolset.
05/09/2002
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Quest Software chose the recent Microsoft Management Summit to announce shipment of the latest update to its Spotlight on Active Directory product.
05/08/2002
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Exam item writers to be given time to test Windows.NET Server in real-world, says Microsoft.
05/08/2002
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An independent survey shows developers are snapping up Microsoft's C# language.
Evans Data Corp. released results of a survey of 800 developers conducted in March and April. According to the research firm, 12 percent of developers were using C# at the time of the survey, up from 7 percent in a similar Evans survey from October.
05/08/2002
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Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a tool for making business intelligence projects easier and quicker to develop on its SQL Server database platform. The SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence consists of a technology wrapped in a partner and consulting program.
05/08/2002
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New study by the Information Technology Association of America says that despite the 5 percent dropoff, IT managers expect to hire about that number of workers in 2002.
05/08/2002
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Analysts at Gartner revised figures that showed that SQL Server had finally overtaken Oracle as the top-selling database on the Windows server platform in 2000. Turns out SQL Server didn't topple Oracle on Microsoft's own OS platform until 2001, Gartner says now.
05/08/2002
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Seagate Technology is taking the wraps off two new hard disk drives designed for data-intensive and OLTP applications. The new drives, both of which are additions to Seagate’s Cheetah line of high-performance SCSI disks, are based on the company’s 10,000 RPM (10K) and 15,000 RPM (15K) technologies.
05/07/2002
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Gartner released research this week showing that the strongest growth in new database software license revenues in 2001 came on Windows server platforms.
05/07/2002
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One of the biggest security-related trade shows got rolling Monday as Networld + Interop opened in Las Vegas. Amid the reams of networking-related product and partnership announcements, security vendors brought out numerous offerings. Much of the focus of new security products this year centers on locking down wireless LANs and protecting the network from the weak link of remote or roaming users’ systems.
05/06/2002
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Altiris Inc. unveiled a new product this week at the Microsoft Management Summit for managing and maintaining applications by extending the functionality of Microsoft Windows Installer.
05/02/2002