Note: Today’s News will be on holiday Friday, September 6 and return to daily publication on Monday, September 9.
CenterBeam
Computer Reseller News, 8/27/02: Microsoft Offers Web Services Development Kit For Visual Studio.Net
By Paula Rooney
Microsoft has released a free Visual Studio.Net add-on for the development of advanced Web services.
The Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), available at the company's MSDN site, allows developers to build Web services using the latest round of Web services standards, including WS-Security, WS-Routing and WS-Attachments.
For example, using the Microsoft WSDK, a developer can add a few lines of code to an existing Web services application to enable support for digital signatures, attachments and routing, according to Microsoft. And with the technology preview version of the WSDK, developers can craft secure Web services across different platforms and domains, including digital signatures and encryption of SOAP messages that comply with the WS-Security standard.
The kit also allows developers to route an XML-based Web service and enable SOAP messages to travel serially to multiple destinations along a message path. Microsoft and IBM proposed the WS-Security and WS-Routing standards last year.
In addition, the WSDK enables developers to add attachments to SOAP messages complying with the e WS-Attachments specification, which Microsoft and IBM jointly submitted to the IETF in July 2002.
The WSDK is one of several offerings that Microsoft has made available to spur development of XML Web services and advance its .Net platform, including Visual Studio.Net and the upcoming launch of the Windows.Net server with the .Net framework embedded into the operating system.
In July, Microsoft also announced the availability of the Office Web services toolkit to ease development of Web services for its Office suite.
CenterBeam's Chief Technology Officer Glenn Ricart said his company is evaluating Microsoft's Web Services Developer's Kit in its continuing search to strengthen security.
"You can never have too much security or manageability," Ricart said. "CenterBeam's clients expect best security practices and automated, remote manageability is essential to CenterBeam's service."
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Outsourcing
Gartner, 8/9/02: Sluggish Growth Expected in SMB Outsourcing Spending in 2003
Based on the state of the economy and the chronic need to do more with less,
outsourcing seems to be a logical choice for SMBs. However, many SMBs don't seem to think so.
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Infoworld, 9/4/02: Study: Most companies will outsource IT by 2005
By Juan Carlos Perez
ALMOST ALL NORTH American IT departments will outsource at least one essential technology operation by 2005, which indicates that IT executives in the region must know how to choose an outsourcer, structure contracts and manage the relationships, according to a Meta Group study announced Wednesday.
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Press Release, 9/4/02: School District in Katy, Texas, Awards IT Outsourcing to HP; Purchases Compaq Desktop PCs; Deal Underscores Trend in Schools to Outsource IT Services, Focus on Teaching
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2002--HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced an agreement to manage the IT infrastructure and help desk services for Katy Independent School District (ISD) in Texas. Mirroring a trend taking hold in the business world, the outsourcing deal frees teachers and administrators to concentrate on their most important task: education.
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The Register, 9/5/02: How to get out of Outsourcing
Over the past couple of years we've seen the phenomenal growth of Outsourcing as businesses focus on their core competencies in an attempt to ride out the economic slowdown. We've also seen the emergence of the mega-Outsourcing deal - multi-million dollar and involving passing on a significant part of the customer's IT delivery capability. The recent early termination of the Bank of Scotland deal with IBM has challenged the wisdom of such deals.
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IT Management
Baseline, 9/4/02: How CIOs Reach the Top
By Kim Nash
Fewer than 40 technology executives in the entire Fortune 500 are paid enough to be publicly reported. Here's who made the cut.
Every year, senior managers participate in a corporate beauty contest—and few technology executives make the final list.
A Baseline analysis finds that only 37 chief information officers ranked among the highest paid officers of Fortune 500 companies in 2001.
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Intel
San Francisco Chronicle, 9/5/02: Intel to sell software unit near Salt Lake City
Matthew Yi
Intel Corp. said it is selling its Software Products and Services Division to a pair of venture capital firms for ans unspecified amount of cash and stock.
Vector Capital and VSpring Capital will turn the chipmaker's 11-year-old division, along with its 150 employees who are mostly located near Salt Lake City, into a new company, Intel spokesman Robert Manetta said.
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Infoworld, 9/4/02: Fall IDF: Intel looks to mobile PCs and handheld devices
By Tom Krazit
THE UPCOMING INTEL Developer Forum (IDF) is expected to focus on chips for both traditional notebooks and emerging mobile devices, and not so much on desktop PC processors, according to Intel officials and analysts.
The event's expected focus is consistent with Intel's rising interest in mobile processors, whose demand is growing much faster than demand for desktop PC processors, a stagnant market Intel has dominated for many years.
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 9/5/02: MS puzzled by server attack spree
By Robert Lemos
Microsoft released further details of a rash of attacks on Windows 2000 servers that has so far stumped the software giant's research team.
In an advisory posted Aug. 30, Microsoft warned customers that several companies had recently observed an "increased level of hacking activity." Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) told system administrators to be on the lookout for Trojan horses--programs that appear to be legitimate but aren't--and for several specific kinds of odd network behavior.
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