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Mozilla Launching Second Act with E-Mail Client
The Mozilla Foundation will release late on Monday a full version of its open-source answer to the e-mail client. With the launch of the Thunderbird 1.0 application, the nonprofit hopes to achieve in e-mail what it did with its Firefox Web browser: Persuade a groundswell of users to try its alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s dominant…
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Siebel Courts SMBs with Partner Program
Siebel Systems Inc. on Tuesday launched a new plan of attack to go after the SMB (small to midsized business) space that has proved elusive for the market-leading enterprise CRM software developer. The strategy includes a new go-to-market model that integrates direct sales with local and regional channel partners and a new partner alliance program…
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Microsoft Tightens Windows Server 2003 Security
Microsoft Corp. has made available for download the first release candidate of a major security update to Windows Server 2003. To further tighten security on new installations, the Post-setup Security Update Wizard blocks all incoming traffic until the latest updates are applied and Automatic Updates are configured. The Service Pack adds the Windows Firewall, perhaps…
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HP Focuses on Software, Storage
BOSTON—Hewlett-Packard Co. officials have completed the reorganization of the company, have their product portfolios in place and have developed strong roadmaps for those products. Now they have to execute on them. That was the message delivered by Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and other top HP officials here today at the company’s meeting with financial…
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HP, Veritas Team on Virtualization, Clustering
In a move some regarded as inevitable, Hewlett-Packard has abandoned its planned porting of Compaq’s Tru64 operating system to HP-UX. The original approach, which would have integrated Tru64 Unix Server and TruCluster technology into HP-UX, was scrapped this week in favor of a faster, less costly technology merger with Veritas. HP now plans to integrate…
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IBM Extends CICS for Web Services, J2EE
Moving along with plans to extend the life of its mainframe systems, IBM introduced two new application upgrades that add Web services capabilities to traditional green-screen applications. Announced last week, the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3.1 provides Web services capabilities, while the CICS Transaction Gateway 6.0 provides J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) connectivity.…
