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Consultants Caution Against ‘Gotchas’ in XP SP2
With Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) finally just around the corner, many security and Windows consultants firmly believe that Microsoft is about to plug some of the largest known holes in Windows XP. At the same time, though, the specialists worry that the forthcoming upgrade might break some existing Microsoft applications, clash with third-party…
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Resellers Differ on Impact of Oracle-PeopleSoft Outcome
With Oracle and PeopleSoft battling it out in court, resellers and systems integrators have differing and sometimes conflicting opinions about how the outcome may eventually impact their businesses. The proposed merger could either create more work for resellers or result in less work, depending on several variables, said Michael James, a vice president at S&P…
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Microsoft Delays Delivery of Two New Patching Systems
TORONTO—Microsoft is delaying by a full year two of its four software patching/upgrade systems, company officials told those attending the worldwide partner conference here. Microsoft’s Windows Update Services, the product formerly known as Software Update Services 2.0, is now due to ship by mid-2005, rather than mid-2004. And the new Microsoft Update Service, a new…
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Is Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ Rolling Over on Windows Support?
Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs recently waved the flag for a stack of new technologies due in Mac OS X 10.4, such as expanded support for 64-bit processing and the Spotlight search engine. While the promise of Mac OS X “Tiger” looks promising, with the perspective of someone integrating Mac clients into enterprise networks,…
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IBM Unveils Power5 Unix Servers
Two months after introducing the Power5 processors in a line of new systems running its OS/400 operating system, IBM on Tuesday is unveiling Unix servers running the new chip. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., will roll out three new servers that will hold from two to 16 processors and run the newest version of its Unix…
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Cisco Names Giancarlo as Technology Chief
Cisco Systems Inc. reshuffled the executive deck in its product development organization Tuesday when it named Charles Giancarlo to the post of chief technology officer. Giancarlo, who will retain his post as president of Cisco-Linksys LLC, becomes only the third CTO in Cisco’s history. The post has remained vacant since Judith Estrin resigned from it…
