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IBM Extending Its Mainframes
IBM, buoyed by four consecutive quarters of growth in its mainframe business, is looking to extend the reach of its zSeries systems. In a series of announcements this week, officials with the Armonk, N.Y., company said they want to take the traditional strengths of the mainframe—including reliability, security and scalability—and illustrate how the systems can…
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Microsoft Probes Flaw in ASP.NET
Microsoft Corp. is investigating a reported security flaw in its ASP.NET technology that could allow intruders to access password-protected sections of a Web site simply by altering a URL. The hole involves a glitch in ASP.NET’s processing of URLs, a process known as canonicalization. According to an advisory posted Tuesday on Microsoft’s Web site, “an…
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Down Home Hosting and International Business
Many U. S. Web hosting companies are discouraged by the flow of business to cheap foreign service providers, mostly based in Asia. But not Stephan R. May Jr., chief cook and bottle washer of InKeeper Co. He gets most of his business from Europe and Canada, with very little effort and an eminently satisfactory ROI.…
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Microsoft Fixes Vexing XP SP2 Incompatibility
Numerous applications, including some of Microsoft’s own, have encountered compatibility problems with Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2). But one application in particular wreaked an inordinate amount of havoc until Microsoft created a removal tool, and now a patch, for it. That application—which many industry watchers consider to fall more into the adware/spware category—was Total…
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IBM Beefs Up WebSphere App Server Platform
IBM Corp. Wednesday announced a new version of its WebSphere application server platform, citing enhancements such as high-availability, new capabilities for building service oriented architectures (SOA), and better resource utilization and improvements to the environment that could improve overall efficiency by up to 75 percent, the company said. WebSphere 6.0 features new autonomic features to…
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SAP Customers Find Refuge from ERP Market Turmoil
SAN DIEGO—SAP’s TechEd conference here is proving to be an oasis of calm for corporate customers in an ERP (enterprise resource planning) software market that has been roiled by Oracle’s prolonged efforts to buy out PeopleSoft. Peck said that while it will take a few years to catch on in the market, he thinks NetWeaver…
