HP retools channel sales/partner strategy
Hewlett-Packard may have been quick out of the gate with details about its post-merger product and services roadmap, but the company is still fleshing out details of its channel sales strategy.
Stories by Jaikumar Vijayan
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IBM drops Intel high-end server
Users of an IBM server line the company acquired through its purchase of Sequent Computer Systems are being forced to migrate to other systems as a result of IBM's decision to ditch the technology.
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Servers converge as part of Unisys strategy
With three new releases, Unisys is building on efforts to migrate users of its two proprietary mainframe lines to a common architecture based on Intel and Windows technologies.
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HP/COMPAQ: Despite favourable vote tally, hurdles remain
Walter Hewlett's determination to legally contest Hewlett-Packard's merger with Compaq Computer despite an initial vote tally favouring the union needlessly complicates an already complicated situation, analysts said.
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Microsoft investigating alleged flaw in IE browser
Microsoft said it's investigating an alleged flaw in recent versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser software that could allow attackers to spoof legitimate Web sites, steal content from browser cookies and gain access to certain types of files on a victim's system.
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CERT: Unix flaw could allow malicious hacking
A vulnerability in a component of a graphical user interface that ships with several commercial Unix systems could let a malicious attacker take administrative control of an affected host system, according to an advisory Tuesday from the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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MS withdraws faulty server patch
A patch released by Microsoft to protect Windows 2000 and Windows NT servers against a denial-of-service vulnerability has been withdrawn after users who installed it complained that it caused their systems to malfunction.
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Microsoft warns of PowerPoint, Excel vulnerabilities
Microsoft is warning users of a security hole in its popular Excel and PowerPoint software that could let malicious attackers take control of a victim's computer.
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Users: Nimda a tough worm to fight
Cleaning out systems infected by the Nimda worm could prove to be a much harder and more time-consuming task for users than getting rid of other pieces of malicious software.
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Worm hard to fight, but patches are available
The multiple ways in which the Nimda worm is able to propagate makes it that much harder to defend against than other recent worms and viruses, security analysts said. But corporations that apply the latest Microsoft patches and use updated virus-protection software from antivirus vendors appear to be reasonably well protected against it.
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HP/COMPAQ: Changes likely to be evolutionary
Enterprise users shouldn't expect any near-term technology or price and performance gains from Hewlett-Packard's planned purchase of Compaq Computer announced last week.
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New supercomputer at DOE lab to study climate
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is installing a 4 TFLOP IBM Corp. supercomputer based on Unix server technology that should become commercially available by early next year.
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Wyly rachets down fight for CA
Texas billionaire Sam Wyly has taken a step back from the proxy fight for control of Computer Associates and reduced the number of board nominees his company Ranger Governance will field, from 10 to four.
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Outlook e-mail vulnerability found
A vulnerability in an ActiveX control shipped with Microsoft's Outlook 98, Outlook 2000 or Outlook 2002 e-mail software could let an attacker run malicious code on a victim's computer via either a Web page or HTML e-mail.
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Users find appeal in HP's usage-based pricing
Hewlett-Packard's new Pay per Use pricing option for its RISC-based Superdome and Intel-based Netserver families of servers is a good first attempt at true usage-based pricing in the distributed server space.
