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Spam Fight Gains Steam
A grass-roots movement to improve the SMTP protocol that governs e-mail traffic is gaining acceptance, and its lead developer hopes to get fast-track approval by the Internet Engineering Task Force to make the emerging framework a standard. The developing framework, known as SPF (Sender Policy Framework), would prevent the spoofing of e-mail addresses and hijacking…
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Decliners Rule for Third Consecutive Week
For the first time since we launched our stock index in October 2003, shares in solutions providers have declined over three consecutive weeks. For the week ended Feb. 20, our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index slid 2.38 percent to 1,137.62. Decliners outpaced winners by a wide 3-to-1 margin. Overall, solution provider shares performed worse…
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Tools Treat Storage as a Utility
Veritas Software Corp., Softek and Sun Microsystems Inc. are each aiming to help customers turn data centers into operational storage utilities through several new storage utilization features and products. The result, according to the companies, should be better management of resources, improved performance and lower costs. Veritas this week will announce the availability of Veritas…
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Macrovision Ships FlexNet Publisher DRM
Macrovision Corp. on Monday announced the shipping version of FlexNet Publisher, the cornerstone of its next-generation digital-rights management system the company first disclosed last October. Although Macrovision, Santa Clara, Calif., designed FlexNet Publisher to manage software companies, Macrovision executives said the technology is also beginning to be added as a “secret sauce” to scale hardware…
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PeopleSoft, SAP Announce New Software for Manufacturers
At the National Manufacturing Week conference and expo in Chicago, enterprise software companies introduced new manufacturing products, services and architectures. PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday outlined its vision for the demand-driven enterprise, which includes methodology and new software products designed to help manufacturers better utilize their capacity. At the same time SAP AG announced new offerings…
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Building Java, .Net Apps Sans Coding
A small but growing software company is rolling out a major upgrade that lets developers build standards-based Java and .Net applications with no coding. Kinzan Inc. this week will release Kinzan Studio & Server 4.0, a development and deployment environment that lets developers build enterprise applications through an assembly model by simply linking components in…
