Kicking and screaming
I may have reduced my normal communications skills by treading so far down the technical trail that this may indeed be the only way back. Surprisingly, I’m not anywhere near the front-runners in blogging, but I think it might be…
InfiniBand companies to merge
InfiniSwitch, Lane 15 join forces InfiniBand Monday came back into the spotlight when two start-ups, InfiniSwitch and Lane 15, announced that they will merge. The resulting company, which will be called InfiniSwitch, will be led by Alissa Nessler, CEO of Lane…
Sun fires latest round in Java war
Overturning order will damage business, lawyers say Sun Microsystems faces “irreparable harm” if an injunction ordering Microsoft to include Sun’s Java Runtime Environment with its products is overturned, Sun said in a legal brief filed Friday. The brief is the…
OASIS looks at Web services management
Technical committee joins with W3C, DMTF, sans Microsoft Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) plans to work with other standards organizations to define a standard way of using Web services architecture and technology for managing distributed resources,…
Sharp’s notebook gets in sync
Unit transfers data to desktop PC Thinking about buying a notebook, but don’t know if you’d like a desktop replacement or an ultraportable second PC? Sharp Electronics is launching two notebooks that represent the extremes in portable computing. The new…
Collaxa readies Web services tool
Software backs IBM-Microsoft-BEA specification Collaxa within two months plans to release a Web services deployment tool that utilizes the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) specification backed by IBM, Microsoft, and BEA Systems. Collaxa Orchestration Server 2.0, which…
IBM, MS advance on Oracle
Oracle pulled in 39.4 percent of database revenue IT buyers once again spent more on Oracle relational and object-relational databases than on similar software from other vendors in 2002, according to preliminary figures market researcher IDC released Monday. But contenders…
ISS reports PeopleSoft vulnerabilities
Component in PeopleTools could be used to attack range of PeopleSoft installations Software vulnerabilities in one component of PeopleSoft’s PeopleTools application framework could be used to launch attacks against a wide range of PeopleSoft installations and give attackers remote access…
Gateway adds 3.06GHz Xeon to server lines
Company to offer two systems with chip Intel’s new 3.06GHz Xeon processor has found a home in servers from Gateway, a month after Dell began selling the chip in workstations on its Web site. Intel launched the 3.06GHz Xeon with…
Update: New Deloder worm targets weak passwords
Virus infects Windows machines A new worm on the Internet targets computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, using easy-to-guess passwords for the Administrator account, according to alerts posted by a number of antivirus companies. The new worm, W32/Deloder-A (Deloder),…
