Year: 2006

  • OpenSUSE 10.2 RC1 Arrives

    OpenSUSE 10.2 RC1 Arrives

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    “That was fast!” said one acquaintance on learning that the first OpenSUSE 10.2 release candidate put in its appearance on Thanksgiving afternoon not three weeks after Beta 2 arrived. The release is currently available for downloading via both ftp and BitTorrent. “OpenSUSE 10.2 RC1 comes in different medias,” according to Andreas Jaeger, Novell/SUSE’s project manager… Read more

  • Salesforce.com, Oracle Turn Up Heat in Business App Battle

    Salesforce.com, Oracle Turn Up Heat in Business App Battle

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    There is a battle brewing in the business applications market, and it’s boiling down to two sides: on-premises versus on-demand software. With Salesforce.com, the poster child for on-demand software, racking up a half-billion dollars in revenues for its fiscal 2007 third quarter, it’s clear the on-demand sector is gaining ground. To better delineate its integration… Read more

  • ViewSonic Launches 3 New Widescreen LCDs

    ViewSonic Launches 3 New Widescreen LCDs

    Patrick Hoffman

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    ViewSonic announced Nov. 22 that it has launched a new line of widescreen LCD monitors that will feature a response time of five milliseconds and improved screen performance for gaming, video and business applications. The Walnut, Calif., company unveiled the VX2235wm, the VX2035wm and the VX1935wm, with 22-, 20- and 19-inch widescreen LCDs, respectively. ViewSonic… Read more

  • Solidcore Enforces Change Policies

    Solidcore Enforces Change Policies

    Paula Musich

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    Solidcore Systems on Nov. 27 will come out with a unique twist on the change management automation theme for data centers when it introduces the ability to enforce change policies. That capability, delivered through a new module in Solidcore’s S3 Change Control software, integrates with BMC Remedy Action Request System to block any changes not… Read more

  • E-Commerce More Secure than Brick and Mortars

    E-Commerce More Secure than Brick and Mortars

    Evan Schuman

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    Despite consumer—and even some IT executive—beliefs that e-commerce poses a much greater security risk than store-based point-of-sale systems, a new Gartner report concludes that the opposite is true. Gartner is reporting that by 2008 most attacks will be on physical POS (point-of-sale) systems and that by 2009 only one out of three such systems will… Read more

  • Gartner: $2 Billion in E-Commerce Sales Lost Because of Security Fears

    Gartner: $2 Billion in E-Commerce Sales Lost Because of Security Fears

    Evan Schuman

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    In 2006 alone, retailers lost almost $2 billion because of consumer security fears, with about one-half of those losses ($913 million) coming from people who avoided sites that seemed to be less secure and the rest (about $1 billion) came from consumers who were too afraid to conduct e-commerce business at all, according to a… Read more