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A Peek Under Microsoft’s Secret ‘Bigtop’
Microsoft officials have said little about the company’s intentions in the grid-computing space. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is ignoring the evolving arena of grid/distributed computing. Microsoft is working on a skunk-works project that is code-named Bigtop, which is designed to allow developers to create a set of loosely coupled, distributed operating-systems components in a…
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Symantec Plus Veritas Equals CA Trouble
Some people seem to have trouble understanding why Symantec bought Veritas. To me, it was a no-brainer. Symantec, like it or lump it, is the brand name of PC anti-viral software. Veritas, in turn, owns the backup market. Don’t you think most users, and your customers, would like having one stop for both data protection…
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Citrix, Microsoft Extend Partnership
Despite speculation that Microsoft Corp. would abandon Citrix Systems Inc.—the company that created MetaFrame and WinFrame, the predecessor to Microsoft’s Terminal Server—and build its own terminal services in the next version of Windows Server, aka “Longhorn,” Microsoft and Citrix recently reached an agreement to collaborate and cross-license Terminal Server and Windows. Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite,…
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Novell Combines SuSE Linux, Netware in Server Public Beta
Novell Inc. gave its NetWare and Linux users a Christmas present by releasing the first public beta of Novell Open Enterprise Server over the holiday weekend. OES is Novell’s dual operating system, NetWare services platform. It can run on top of either SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) 9.0 or the NetWare 7.0 kernel or both.…
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Holiday Attacks Target IE Browser, PHP Servers
Malware authors on Christmas day left dubious “gift” packages in e-mailboxes across the Internet. Fresh attacks, which took advantage of old Internet Explorer bugs, as well as new versions of the Santy worm fouled the holidays for some Windows users and PHP server admins. A posting on the Full Disclosure mailing list described a new…
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Three Serious Windows Vulnerabilities Surface
Symantec Corp.’s Security Response service on Friday confirmed that unpatched Windows vulnerabilities could pose a serious risk for exploits via malicious Web pages and e-mail messages. One of the three security vulnerabilities involves image handling—a source of recent exploits on Windows and Unix operating systems. The other two risks are found in the Help system…
