Wraps Come Off Commerce Server 2000 in December

Microsoft's e-Commerce solution is expected to be generally available in December. 11/30/2000

IDC: Information Security Market to Exceed $8B by 2004

The worldwide market for security consulting, implementation, management, and training services will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26 percent, from $5.5 billion in 1999 to $17.2 billion in 2004, according to a new study from IDC. 11/30/2000

Details on Continuing Education Credits for MCTs

Also, earn 15 bonus Continuing Education credits before Dec. 31, 2000 by completing the Win2K MCSE track. 11/30/2000

CMD Introduces New RAID Controllers

MTI Introduces New Storage Appliance

November 29, 2000 11/29/2000

Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Nearing General Availability

Continuing to roll out components of its .NET Enterprise Servers product line, Microsoft today announced that Commerce Server 2000 will be generally available in December. 11/29/2000

Procom Launches Enterprise Class NAS Appliances

Dell Launches B2B Integration Enabling Solution

New Sunbelt Tool Boosts Exchange Performance

Seeking Exchange and SQL Test Reviewers

Have you been invited to the latest Exchange and SQL beta exams? Share your experiences with MCP Magazine readers... 11/29/2000

Microsoft vs. DoJ: Round 2 Begins in Appeals Court

With a claim that “the entire proceeding was infected with error,” Microsoft filed an appellate brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals in an attempt to overturn U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s ruling that the company engaged in monopolistic practices and his order to split the software giant into two separate companies. 11/28/2000

Intel Online, EMC Team to Deliver Managed Storage Services

Intel Online Services today announced it is teaming with EMC to provide EMC storage solutions to e-businesses using Intel Online Services’ managed hosting environment. As part of the partnership, Intel Online Services has joined the EMC Proven Program at the highest level and is participating in EMC’s xSPerience Provider Program. 11/27/2000

IDC, Advantiv Join Forces to Accelerate Enterprise App Selection, Adoption

IDC and Advantiv announced a partnership aimed at improving the process of assessing, selecting, and implementing mission-critical enterprise application systems. 11/27/2000

Microsoft Files Brief to Overturn Antitrust Judgement

ENT Magazine reports that Microsoft on November 28 filed an appellate brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals in hopes of overturning U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s antitrust 11/27/2000

Getronics, Stratus Team to Deliver E-Banking Solutions

Getronics and Stratus Computer announced an agreement targeted at delivering continuously available third-generation e-banking solutions to the financial services industry. 11/27/2000

Analyst: New Top-Level Domains A Bad System

Seven new top-level domains have been added to the Internet’s naming scheme, but one analyst says it may well do more harm than good. 11/22/2000

Tranxition Previews Tranxition Migration Studio

Crossroads Unveils conXsan Family

November 22, 2000 11/22/2000

Samsung SDS Previews New ERP System at Comdex

Silvon Unveils Web Performance Analysis Tool

Net Nanny Demos BioPassword

Vector Networks’ NetSupport PC-Duo Supports Whistler

Snap Appliances Launches NAS Servers

Pentium 4 is Here

Intel's long awaited Pentium 4 processor was released today. It is the first completely new desktop processor design from Intel since the Pentium Pro in 1995. 11/20/2000

Of Note at CertCities.com This Week...

New articles from Greg Neilson, Steve Crandall, and a slew of Win2K pop quizzes. 11/20/2000

Outsourcing to Grow to $70 Billion Business by 2005

In a report released today, industry research analyst firm Aberdeen Group predicted that the hosting services market will reach $70 billion from 2005. The hosting services market focuses on the design, building, and management of Internet operations. 11/20/2000

Migrating to Win2K Exam Delayed to December

Release of much-anticipated Win2K MCSE track elective slides a few more weeks. 11/17/2000

Beta Exams: What Do You Think?

Help Microsoft assess the new beta test policy by filling out a survey. 11/17/2000

Meta Cites High Growth Rates for CRM

In a recent Meta Group survey, preliminary results indicate that company spending on customer relationship management (CRM) is expected to grow by about 75 percent over the next year. 11/16/2000

DataFlux Rolls Out Next Edition of dfPower

November 16, 2000 11/16/2000

Microsoft Gives .NET Center Stage at Comdex

LAS VEGAS – By now, most everyone has heard of Microsoft’s newest bet-the-company strategy, known as .NET. But if you were to take an informal Comdex poll of people who actually understand what .NET is, the count would be smaller than the number of votes separating George Bush and Al Gore in Florida. 11/15/2000

Unisys Posts New Benchmarks

Unisys got busy benchmarking its Intel architecture systems this week, posting new benchmarks for its 4- and 8-processor Profusion-based servers and 32-processor CMP servers. 11/15/2000

Clustering Exam Goes Live

Microsoft meets release expectations with this enterprise-grade exam. 11/15/2000

Wireless Moving Into The Enterprise Space

LAS VEGAS – Wireless technology is white-hot at fall Comdex. Bluetooth and 802.11 (the IEEE standard for wireless LANs) are the buzzwords, and it seems that every company has some kind of wireless component to their business. 11/15/2000

Oracle, Compaq to Offer Internet Appliance

LAS VEGAS -- On Monday, Oracle Corp. announced a partnership with Compaq Computer Corp. to collaborate on several Internet appliances, in a move away from “individual” computer configurations and toward a more uniform offering of servers. 11/14/2000

Aelita Releases New EventAdmin

Free Copies of W2K Advanced Server Available in Windows Web Hoster Program

When it comes to competing with open source free software like Linux and Apache, Microsoft isn’t willing to uncloak its code yet. But Microsoft recently showed it is willing to try a little bit of the free part to get its foot in a Web hoster’s door. 11/14/2000

Atinav Releases aveConnect 2.3 Series

BMC Adds More to PATROL

Dell Wants to Own Server Market

LAS VEGAS -- One out of every four servers sold in this country is a Dell, said Michael Dell on Monday. And for him, that’s just not good enough. 11/14/2000

Ellison Bashes Fat Clients, Microsoft

LAS VEGAS – Larry Ellison’s COMDEX keynote address Monday night was more like half and half -- half Oracle Corp’s. new vision for uniform, homogenous computing, and half Microsoft-bashing. 11/14/2000

Edify Makes Electronic Workforce Available

November 14, 2000 11/14/2000

Comdex Special Report: Microsoft Releases Visual Studio.NET, .NET Framework Betas

ENT Magazine's Chris McConnell reports that Microsoft has released beta versions of Visual Studio.NET and .NET Framework to developers. 11/13/2000

Heroix Embraces SQL Server 2000

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio.NET, .NET Framework Betas

Developers interested in what the .NET future will look like can sneak a peek beginning today. Microsoft has released betas of two .NET development environments, Visual Studio.NET and .NET Framework. 11/13/2000

Fiorina Looks to the Future at Comdex

LAS VEGAS -- Advising the sold-out crowd that "we could all benefit from a little perspective," Hewlett-Packard Co. president and CEO Carly Fiorina kicked off her keynote at Comdex Fall with a history lesson. 11/13/2000

Gates Says

LAS VEGAS -- With a look at the past year as well as promising projections for the year to come, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates opened Comdex Fall 2000 with his keynote address. 11/12/2000

Intel Completes 0.13-Micron Process Technology

Intel announced that it has completed the development of its 0.13 micron (130 nanometer) generation logic technology, allowing it to manufacture chips with transistors that are approximately 1/1000^th the width of a human hair. This advanced process technology will begin volume manufacturing next year. 11/09/2000

QLogic Unveils 2 Gigabit SAN

QLogic today unveiled a 2 Gigabit SAN infrastructure, consisting of scalable products ranging from single-chip PCI-Fibre Channel controllers and host adapter boards for server and storage end nodes, to edge switches for work groups, and high port count director class switches for enterprise-class data centers. 11/09/2000

The Dot in .com Speaks Out on .NET

Sun Microsystems issues a public critique of Microsoft's .NET initiative. 11/09/2000