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Chief executive Joe Tucci is transforming EMC Corp. from a successful storage hardware maker to a developer of software that manages the data sitting in those disk arrays. At the EMC Analyst Day event in New York this month, Tucci predicted his Hopkinton, Mass., company would reach $8.1 billion in revenue this year, with much […]

Proxim Corp. said Thursday that it plans to ship fixed and portable versions of WiMax technology next year through a partnership with Intel. Intel, which is developing WiMax (or IEEE 802.16) silicon for shipment later this year, said it will work with Proxim to develop bases stations based on the technology early next year, then […]

The world must wait until late July at the earliest until Microsoft Corp. delivers the final release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). But that isn’t stopping testers and customers from asking what Microsoft’s intentions are, in terms of back-porting the SP2 updates and fixes to other Microsoft operating systems and related products. Despite […]

Andy Lees, Microsoft Corp.’s new corporate vice president for server and tools marketing, discussed the Redmond, Wash., company’s plans to increase integration across all its server products with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli late last month. The [Windows Server System] Common Engineering Roadmap could be perceived by customers as a move to make the latest […]

May has come and gone without Microsoft releasing a promised second release-candidate beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Microsoft said earlier this year to expect Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of XP SP2 in May. Repeatedly, during the past two weeks, Microsoft officials have said RC2 would ship “sometime in the next few […]

Following reports that Microsoft delivered a sworn statement to the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this year claiming it had no intentions to enter the enterprise ERP market for at least two years, some company watchers were skeptical. But given Monday’s disclosure by Microsoft that it held merger talks late last year with ERP market […]

A new General Accounting Office report recommends centralized patch management services to help protect government systems against software vulnerabilities. The GAO study of 24 executive branch agencies found that although they are building system inventories, a vital first step in the process, most have no formal process for patching and many do not test patches […]

The Department of Homeland Security this week awarded a contract to Accenture LLC to oversee a program to track millions of foreign visitors to the United States using biometrics, such as digital photographs and fingerprints. The project, officially called US-VISIT, will track foreign visitors to ensure they do not overstay their visas. One of the […]

Microsoft on Thursday posted for download a public beta of the next version of its Visual FoxPro development tool. The public beta of Visual FoxPro 9.0, code-named “Europa,” is available on the Microsoft.com download site. The new version will include a number of user-interface tweaks, as well as some incremental new features for developers, such […]

SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp. is planning to deliver updates to its Exchange Server product every two years and is considering a similar move to deliver SQL Server updates in a more timely manner, company officials said at the TechEd 2004 conference here. The moves to deliver more frequent, smaller updates—rather than waiting years between major releases […]

CHASKA, Minn.—This upscale suburb will soon become one of the few, but growing, U.S. cities almost entirely within a “hot spot” of high-speed wireless access to the Internet. The Wireless Fidelity network will blanket virtually every home, business and city office with broadband-grade bandwidth —that is, super-fast access to the Internet without a hard-wired connection. […]

The secret to success for electronic health systems is not to do them halfway, says Tom Smith, CIO of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. When ENH began its three-year, $30 million move to a fully integrated system, he says, the biggest resource was the support of the ENH board, which ensured that all health care workers participate […]