IT Management
Infowold, 9/19/03: ZENWorks and the art of Windows desktop maintenance
Though Oracle is quiet about it, ZENWorks 6 is an excellent desktop-management tool
By Oliver Rist
After a recent column discussing low-cost ways to flesh out a systems administration plan based on Microsoft’s SMS (System Management Server), I received a small deluge of reader e-mails chastising me for not suggesting Novell’s ZENWorks as an alternative to SMS.
Why didn’t I suggest it? Because I’m a boob, an imbecile, a weirdo. Oh wait, I’m just re-reading those e-mails. The real reason I didn’t suggest it that I simply haven’t looked at it in some time. Last time these eyes glanced at a ZENWorks console, it was installed on a NetWare server, something I’m not concentrating on much here, this being a column about Windows and all.
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Infoworld, 9/19/03: IT in permanent decline, execs worry
Industry leaders at Intel Developer Forum air concerns about US future
By Stephen Lawson
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. IT industry may be in a state of permanent decline, a high-level Intel executive told an audience Thursday at Fall Intel Developer Forum.
"In many regards, I think the restoration of the IT industry will not occur in the U.S. In fact, the U.S. IT industry may be flat to going down permanently," said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Intel's Corporate Technology Group, in Santa Clara, California. "Some of the things going on in government, policy and so on may be leading us right to the demise of the IT industry in the U.S."
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Infoworld, 9/19/03: Tibco upgrades products, sees 'predictive' enterprise
New tools will let business managers model systems
By James Niccolai
Tibco Software Inc. announced upgrades to some of its core messaging and integration products Friday, along with a longer term plan to develop software that it said will help enterprises react more quickly to unplanned events affecting their businesses.
The company makes integration software that links different types of computer systems and applications together with the goal of streamlining business processes and reducing costs. Its rivals in the EAI (enterprise applications integration) market include webMethods Inc. and SeeBeyond Technology Corp.
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Security
Trend Micro, 9/22/03: WORM_CASPID.A
This memory-resident worm spreads though different peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, including Kazaa, Morpheus, LimeWire and BearShare.
It spreads via email dropping a copy of itself in HTML format and setting the HTML copy as the default stationery for outgoing Outlook email messages. As a result, all HTML-formatted messages sent using Outlook Express with the default stationery contains a copy of this worm.
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Infoworld, 9/19/03: Expect the unexpected when it comes to security
Vigilance is the key to keeping your enterprise out of the security waste land
By Chad Dickerson
August was the cruelest month, breeding MS Blaster and Sobig out of moribund security policies, mixing buffer overflows with SMTP-based viruses, stirring vacation-focused minds with new worms. Winter had kept us warm, as our 1U Linux servers blanketed the datacenter with forgetful uptime, feeding us our e-mail through twisted cables. Summer surprised us …
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Internetnews, 9/18/03: Sendmail Still Buggy
By Clint Boulton
A new buffer overflow flaw has been detected in popular e-mail transfer application Sendmail that could allow an attacker to run any code he or she chooses, according to CERT/CC.
The security advisory group said the vulnerability affects systems running open-source Sendmail versions before 8.12.10, including both UNIX and Linux systems, as well as such commercial releases of Sendmail as Sendmail Switch, Sendmail Advanced Message Server (SAMS), and Sendmail for NT. The weakness offers a malicious user to tap the application's daemon, particularly it's root.
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Microsoft
The Wall Street Journal, 9/22/03: Microsoft Complains About Complacency, But Who Is at Fault?
Everyone knows that computer-industry types speak in a corporate techno-garble that outsiders often can't fathom. The average person might thus have found it difficult to understand what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was getting at in this passage from a speech last week in Silicon Valley.
Said Mr. Ballmer: "I believe that there's almost a dangerous complacency about innovation amongst people in the world these days. That complacency threatens to leave companies behind in a world that will continue to change rapidly."
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VUNet, 9/5/03: Migration costs hold back XP
By Karl Flinders
Expense and hassle of upgrading not worth the benefits, say majority of users
Companies are holding back from moving to Windows XP because of the cost and effort needed to complete the transition, according to research.
A survey of IT chiefs in 100 medium to large UK companies found that, after two years on the market, the adoption of Microsoft's latest operating system remains slow, with only 11 per cent of businesses fully migrating their desktops.
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Infoworld, 9/21/03: Microsoft builds out Office components
Software add-ons expand Office System's reach
By Ed Scannell
Hoping to deepen Office's corporate roots, Microsoft on Monday will debut a set of offerings designed to help users exact more value from its suite of applications.
The Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator program consists of a set of software components, templates, and architectural guidance from the company. The first seven Office Solution Accelerators will ship this fall with others to follow later this year and into next.
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Infoworld, 9/19/03: Microsoft seeks stronger XML ties
ERP vendors pour cold water on Office as window to enterprise applications
By Joris Evers
Microsoft's forthcoming Office 2003 suite offers enterprises a promise few vendors or analysts are willing to support.
The software giant argues that organizations will realize significant business process improvements by using the Office 2003 suite as a window into back-end enterprise systems. Office 2003’s support for XML, Microsoft contends, is the key to bridging this front-end to back-end gap.
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