Jim Wagner

Web services and outsourcing could be the one-two punch that knocks out the systems integration industry, research firm Yankee Group noted in an advisory Monday. With IT spending dollars under consistent scrutiny since the downturn of 2001, many U.S. and European companies are taking a serious look at getting more bang for their buck. As […]

A jury in Rochester, N.Y., found Sun Microsystems liable for using patented technology owned by photography company Eastman Kodak in the Java programming language. The Friday verdict at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York ruled Sun had violated all counts in the patent infringement case. Tuesday, the jury will decide […]

Officials at Mercury Interactive , makers of enterprise business technology optimization (BTO) software, announced an extension of its product line Monday, called business process testing (BPT). Based on Gartner Group research, which found that 80 percent of all unplanned downtime is caused by application errors, officials at the Mountain View, Calif., concern thought it was […]

UPDATE: With Sender ID going nowhere fast, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) officials Wednesday shut down the working group charged with finding a standard for e-mail authentication. The group’s mailing list will remain active, officials said, even though the working group’s Web site has been shuttered. The engineers, software vendors and computer scientists that comprised […]

UPDATED: The Department of Justice (DoJ), FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office handed down a 10-count indictment against former Computer Associates (CA) chairman and CEO Sanjay Kumar and Stephen Richards, former CA head of worldwide sales. Both were charged with securities fraud conspiracy, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Kumar was additionally charged with […]

Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET platform performs “significantly better” than IBM’s J2EE-based WebSphere Studio, according to a study released Tuesday by The Middleware Company (TMC), owners of the popular TheServerSide developer communities. According to the report by TMC, which is a subsidiary of Veritas Software, the goal of the Microsoft-commissioned study, entitled “Comparing Microsoft .NET and […]

Lifecycle management tools vendor Altiris released Server Management Suite 6.0, software that tracks a server’s management process. The SMS 6.0 update is a nod to the Lindon, Utah-based company’s relationships with some of the biggest Linux players in the market, including IBM and Red Hat . The company also has close ties with big hardware […]

Now that Microsoft’s two patent efforts regarding e-mail authentication are publicly available, anti-spam advocates are raising even more questions about how the patents might impact an industry-wide anti-spam protocol effort called Sender ID. John Levine, chairman of the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG), a parallel group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, said one of the […]

Three days after the preview release of Firefox 1.0 and more than 720,000 downloads later, the Mozilla Foundation is moving to a new phase in its online campaign to build more market share. Firefox, which traces its roots to the once-dominant Netscape Web browser, has been enjoying a period of popularity in recent times at […]

Did AOL jump the gun in its decision Wednesday to ditch Sender ID and continue with its Sender Policy Framework (SPF) deployment in the battle against spam? Developments among working groups forming a new worldwide protocol for authenticating e-mail might deflect AOL’s objections. As internetnews.com first reported Wednesday, AOL Spokesperson Nicholas Graham said the ISP […]

UPDATE: Though it may not be as obvious as some would hope, Sender ID is still moving forward, and a revamped version should be finalized in the coming months, according to Andrew Newton, co-chair of the MARID working group. The confusion over Sender ID’s fate began when Newton sent a missive to the group’s e-mail […]

AOL has withdrawn its support for Microsoft’s controversial Sender ID technology and is falling back on Sender Policy Framework (SPF), internetnews.com has learned. “Given recent concerns expressed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), coupled with the tepid support for Sender ID in the open source community, AOL has decided to move forward with SPF,” […]