Recent Articles
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Microsoft: Single Sign-On Far from Dead
Microsoft on Thursday rushed to put the kibosh on talk that it was abandoning the single sign-on Passport identity management service. But even as company officials insist that Passport “will be around for a long time,” it has become increasingly clear that a series of security-related hiccups has ruined consumer trust in the Web-based tool.…
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Californians Face Deadline on Microsoft Antitrust Claims
Thousands of companies and California residents will turn their backs on a share of the $1.1 billion antitrust settlement against Microsoft Corp. if they don’t file simple claim forms by the Jan. 8, 2005 deadline. Last month the California Superior Court signed an order extending the deadline to Jan. 8 to give consumers more time…
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Oracle Takes Control of PeopleSoft
Oracle Corp. early Wednesday declared that it had won control of PeopleSoft Inc. after stockholders tendered about 75 percent of the outstanding shares of the Pleasanton, Calif. producer of enterprise application software. Oracle made the announcement after the initial offering period for Oracle’s $26.50 tender offer for all PeopleSoft shares expired at midnight EST Tuesday.…
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California Mounts Appeal of FCC’s VOIP Order
The state of California is mounting a legal challenge to a recent Federal Communications Commission ruling that VOIP phone services sold by Vonage Holdings Corp. were exempt from state and local regulations and tariffs. In a petition for review filed with the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, the Public Utilities Commission of…
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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…
