Jim Wagner

Officials at Microsoft took advantage of their new arrangement with Novell to launch a promotion to get U.S. customers off the NetWare operating system and onto Windows Server 2003. Microsoft’s Mid-Market NetWare Migration Promotion is a set of free downloadable tools that includes newsgroup-based technical support and vouchers for online training. The company is giving […]

The latest Symantec numbers appear to provide fresh hope for e-mail account holders weary of messages about Viagara and mortgage refinancing loans — a leveling of spam. Symantec officials said spam volume held steady at 66 percent between August and October this year. However, Symantec expects the amount of unwanted e-mails is going to increase […]

IT services giant EDS wrote off $375 million of its ever-shrinking $7 billion contract with the U.S. Navy after reporting third-quarter 2004 results Tuesday. The write-off contributed to a third-quarter, $153 million net loss for the Plano, Texas-based company; officials also indicated they would restate their quarterly statement from fiscal year 2003 to revise bonus […]

Officials at BEA Systems announced the first milestone release of their open source project, Apache Beehive. The announcement was part of the ApacheCon 2004 conference taking place in Las Vegas. The Web application framework, a reusable set of software components — NetUI PageFlows, Controls and Java Specification Request 181 (Metadata for Web Services) — used […]

One of the Web’s largest e-mail providers is looking to make its service safer with the adoption of DomainKeys, a cryptographic-based e-mail authentication technology, Monday. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo originally developed the technology to reduce the amount of spam coming from spoofed e-mail addresses , which in turn leads to phishing attacks on personal and confidential […]

Symantec’s remote management tool is getting its first major facelift in more than a year, with added platform support and a new security scheme. Symantec’s pcAnywhere 11.5, due the first part of December, lets administrators manage servers or end users’ workstations without having to be physically present. With the pcAnywhere running as a host on […]

Novell filed a 68-page civil lawsuit against Microsoft in the U.S. District Court in Utah Friday. The complaint, filed in Salt Lake City, charges Microsoft violated Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act when it leveraged its dominating market share in the operating system sector to restrict OEMs and other resellers from bundling competing […]

Identity rights management (IRM) software vendor Epok said the Kingdom of Jordan will incorporate its ID management platform to process digital passports, or smart cards, officials announced Wednesday. Jordan is the second country to adopt smart card technology from Dubai-based Datel. Last month, the Dubai Naturalization and Residency Department (DNRD) selected Datel’s E-Gate smart card […]

IDC Research this week published a white paper that reveals the trends expected to impact IT spending next year. The paper, sponsored by automated software quality (ASQ) vendor Mercury Interactive but featuring independent IDC research conducted throughout the year, focuses on the three areas many enterprises will be addressing next year: deploying and managing complex, […]

The battle for PeopleSoft now goes to the stockholders. PeopleSoft’s board of directors voted unanimously to recommend that its stockholders reject Oracle’s final, $24 per share takeover offer because it does not reflect PeopleSoft’s “real value.” The decision leaves the hostile takeover battle for PeopleSoft in the hands of stockholders as Oracle looks for a […]

IBM’s alphaWorks emerging technologies Web site now contains four ISV developer tools tied to its middleware portfolio for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) Wednesday. The Armonk, N.Y., IT giant has earmarked $1 billion for software developers who make applications for them. IBM considers alphaWorks software code for future development. And although the code is pre-beta […]

Four application security vendors are challenging some of the biggest names in the security industry to put their money where their mouth is about secure products. Teros, NetContinuum, Imperva and F5 Networks issued a challenge to Cisco , Juniper Networks , McAfee , Check Point Software and Symantec to certify their products are as good […]