Recent Articles
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Low-End Systems Lead Server Demand
Recent reports by the leading market research companies show that worldwide server sales continue to rise, indicating that enterprises are beginning to loosen their purse strings for IT infrastructure purchases. Check out eWEEK.com’s Infrastructure Center at http://infrastructure.eweek.com for the latest news, views and analysis on servers, switches and networking protocols for the enterprise and small…
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GAO: Government Agencies Need Help With Patch Management
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…
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Accenture Lands High-Tech Border Security Contract
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…
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Visual FoxPro ‘Europa’ Lives
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…
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Kumar Leaves CA
Just weeks after stepping down as the company’s CEO, Sanjay Kumar announced Friday that he is leaving Computer Associates International Inc. altogether. In a statement announcing the resignation, Kumar said that he felt that CA could not move past its recent accounting troubles and ongoing investigations by the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange…
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Resellers May Carve Niche in IM Security Wares
Security software vendors are rolling out instant messaging solutions, and they believe resellers can help move their new wares. Enterprise-class deals involving IM security appear to be few and far between at this point. But the market is young, and vendor wares are just starting to gain traction. Zone Labs six months ago began shipping…
