Oracle Fires Another Shot in Messaging Battle

Oracle used its conference this week in San Francisco to promote its Oracle Collaboration Suite as an alternative to established collaboration offerings from Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. 11/14/2002

Ballmer Describes Effects of Antitrust on Microsoft

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail to customers Wednesday night describing how Microsoft has matured during the antitrust case and how lessons from the legal quagmire are making Microsoft into a more responsible industry leader moving forward. 11/14/2002

Intel Brings Hyper-Threading to the Desktop

Intel on Thursday introduced a faster Pentium 4 processor that is the first desktop chip to include Hyper-Threading technology. The 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 is available immediately at a cost of $637 in 1,000-unit quantities. 11/14/2002

Hiring Outlook for IT Workers Remains Gloomy

It looks like the IT hiring slowdown will last into the near future—and maybe beyond, according to a study by the Information Technology Association of America. 11/13/2002

Citrix Building Real-time Collaboration Environment

Citrix Systems recently previewed a real-time collaboration product -- code-named Project Pearl -- that will allow MetaFrame end users to share any published application, file or document. The product is scheduled to ship in the first half of 2003 as an add-on to the next feature release of MetaFrame XP. 11/13/2002

Buffer Overflow Flaw in Oracle9i Component

Security researcher David Litchfield found a high risk problem in the form of a buffer overflow vulnerability occurring in a software component that ships with the Oracle 9i database on all platforms. 11/13/2002

SMS Server Gets Overhaul; Feature Packs Released

Systems Management Server 2003, in beta now, to be integrated into .NET. universe. 11/13/2002

Configuresoft Security Patch Management Software Updated

Configuresoft released the second generation of a product for one of the biggest problems facing Windows administrators right now -- security patch management. 11/13/2002

Capellas Leaves HP

HP president Michael Capellas is leaving HP and quitting the board of directors "to pursue other career opportunities," the company announced in a statement on Monday. 11/11/2002

Microsoft Board Creates Antitrust Compliance Committee

Microsoft's board of directors moved quickly to comply with the first deadline U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly placed in the antitrust settlement agreement that she approved Nov. 1. 11/11/2002

Tablet PC Devices Launch

Microsoft gathered partners, analysts, customers and reporters in New York last week to launch the first generation of Tablet PCs built on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. 11/11/2002

Windows "Longhorn" Server Cancelled

Microsoft abandoned its plans to ship client and server versions of Windows simultaneously in the "Longhorn" release, a company spokeswoman confirmed Monday. Instead, "Longhorn" will be a client-only release, with the successor to Windows .NET Server 2003 coming later under the code-name "Blackcomb." 11/11/2002

IBM Pushes x440 Benchmark Results Higher

IBM Corp. published an OLTP benchmark this week that demonstrates again the surging capabilities of Windows Datacenter Server on Xeon MP chips in eight-processor systems. 11/07/2002

Business Intelligence Tools Available for SQL Customers

Microsoft this week posted two free tools to its Web site to help financial services customers and manufacturing customers build business intelligence solutions on SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. 11/07/2002

Microsoft Memo: Some Anti-Linux Messages Backfire

Some of Microsoft's more aggressive public arguments against Linux and Open Source Software backfired with key customer groups, according to an internal Microsoft memo leaked to an open source advocacy site. 11/07/2002

Gallatin Debuts at 2 GHz

Intel this week made available faster and more powerful Xeon MP processors, the high-end 32-bit processors that power four-way and larger industry-standard servers. 11/06/2002

EmEditor 3.28

SQL Compare

Briefing: Attunity

Connect to legacy data without abandoning your new, slick API. 11/06/2002

XMLSpy 5

StarTeam 5.2

IBM Drops New Xeon MPs Into Server Line

IBM Corp. is immediately refreshing its Intel-based server line with new silicon from Intel. IBM's quick work advances Big Blue's already significant lead in delivering eight-way Xeon MP servers while main competitors HP and Dell continue to deliver eight-processor boxes populated with 900-MHz Pentium III Xeon processors. 11/06/2002

NetIQ SQL Management Suite

A solid overall resource and event management solution for multiple SQL Servers. 11/06/2002

Briefing: Teamplate

New tool offers rapid deployment of .NET-based process automation solutions. 11/06/2002

Unisys Ratchets Up 32-bit Wintel Benchmark Performance

Unisys made its first run against the the Transaction Processing Performance Council's closely watched OLTP benchmark using Intel's Xeon MP processors in the 32-processor Unisys ES7000 server this week. 11/06/2002

Analysis: Case Closed? Far From It

Yes, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's opinion on Friday to uphold most parts of the antitrust settlement and alter others only slightly looks like a clincher for the case. But when it comes to the courts, it ain't over 'til the … no wait, it's never over. The sad fact is that by the time situations like this get dragged into the courts, nobody ever really wins. The ensuing years tend to be a long-drawn out process of derivative actions, endless court dates and uncertainty. 11/05/2002

70-300 Analyzing .NET Requirements in Beta

A required exam for MCSD.NET is finally making its way to beta, which means it may meet or beat its February 2003 release. 11/04/2002

Judge Upholds Antitrust Settlement Agreement

The long-awaited ruling in the settlement phase of the Microsoft antitrust case is in. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly approved the terms of the settlement Microsoft agreed to with the Department of Justice and the nine states a year ago. 11/01/2002

Getting It Right

ScriptLogic configures desktops, launches apps and more. 11/01/2002

Hello, It's IP Telephony

IP telephony is no longer just for companies that do a lot of geographically disparate work. Our columnist gives you the long-distance view. 11/01/2002

Real World

Helping others get more than a foot in the IT door. 11/01/2002

The Shadow-Copy Knows

Volume Shadow Copy, another new Windows .NET feature, shifts the burden of backups and restores back to users. 11/01/2002

Domain Controller Lockdown

Implement Group Policy to automate the process of locking down domain controllers. 11/01/2002

Résumé Makeover

This month, Steve takes a reader’s résumé and gives it a fresh look. 11/01/2002

Welcome to Your Nightmare

Audit the software on users' machines with this month's handy script. 11/01/2002

Reunited, With Style

PerfectDisk 2000 puts your hard drive back in harmony. 11/01/2002

Group Policy XPerience

You can do more with Group Policy in Windows XP than in Windows 2000 Professional. Here’s a guide to the changes. 11/01/2002

Quick Control

NetSupport Manager makes remote administration simple. 11/01/2002

Tough Migration Moves

Migrating from Novell Directory Services to Active Directory is hard work. This article explains how to assess your current situation, formulate an action plan and specify features for third-party help. 11/01/2002

What’s New With NICs

Evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, current network interface cards offer increased speed, better CPU utilization and specialized functionality. 11/01/2002

70-310: Servicing The Web

You can build Web services and the components that keep them running with Visual Basic. This exam pushes you to know your tools really well. 11/01/2002

VPNs: How Private Are They?

CyberGatekeeper Remote Policy Enforcer keeps your users in compliance and your network secure. 11/01/2002

.NET Leap of Faith

Release of Windows .NET Server is getting close. Should your company consider moving? Windows Insider Bill Boswell makes a case for the upgrade to Microsoft’s newest operating system. 11/01/2002

Powerful Management

SiteKeeper helps admins maintain software control. 11/01/2002

PC Ground Control

PC-Duo Enterprise provides comprehensive configuration management for enterprise networks. 11/01/2002

Exchange 2000 for the Big Guys

Scaling Microsoft Exchange 2000 is a pragmatic guide to designing large implementations. 11/01/2002

User Administrators: More Efficient Management

.NET sports features that'll streamline lower-level admin tasks. 11/01/2002

Certified Mail

Licensing confusion, and more salary survey feedback. 11/01/2002

Best Defense

What's going on in your network? Who can you trust? Take a look at Hackproofing Your Network and find out just how vulnerable you may be. 11/01/2002

Resumé Makeover

This month, Greg takes a reader’s resumé and gives it a fresh look. 11/01/2002