IT Management
Infoworld, 11/20/03: CA offers free antivirus, firewall software
Initiative is associated with Microsoft's security campaign
By Joris Evers
LAS VEGAS - Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) will give away its consumer antivirus and firewall software product with a year's subscription to virus signature updates, it said Tuesday.
The eTrust EZ Armor product carries a retail price of $49.95 but will be available as a free download from the CA Web site through June 30 next year, the Islandia, New York, company said in a statement released at the Comdex tradeshow in Las Vegas.
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Utility Computing
eWeek, 11/20/03: IBM Upgrades Improve Security, Migrations
By Jeffrey Burt
IBM is upgrading parts of its ThinkVantage technology suite to improve security and migration capabilities for PC users.
At Comdex in Las Vegas this week, IBM officials announced a software developer's kit for its embedded security subsystem. The kit, available as a free download, should eventually give ThinkPad users even greater security options, said Bob Galush, vice president of product marketing for IBM's Personal Computing Division.
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C|net, 11/20/03: Utility computing's elusive definition
By David Becker
LAS VEGAS--Utility computing is more like a river than a stone.
That helpful clarification comes courtesy of the main panel on the subject at the Comdex computing trade show, where participants were able to agree on that analogy and the notion that utility computing is real and significant but had little success in nailing down the elusive topic du jour in enterprise computing.
That's because utility computing isn't any one thing. It's an IT management approach, it's a business strategy, it's a hardware breakthrough--depends on who you're dealing with and what your needs are.
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Microsoft
The Wall Street Journal, 11/20/03: Those Office Blues
I can't help getting a bit heated when I write about Microsoft products. On the one hand, I really want to see something in there that knocks my socks off (metaphorically speaking; no one wants to be around me sockless). On the other, I always end up feeling disappointed, because all the great improvements that could be made, aren't. And finally, I can't help wondering whether every new feature is geared to locking me into some future revenue stream trickling all the way back to headquarters in Redmond, Wash.
Sadly, I feel no different about Microsoft Office 2003, released last month to much fanfare. It's not that it's bad software: It's the best Office Suite (I know that conjures up images of fake leather furniture and cheapo reproduction paintings in the boardroom, but it's what they call these software collections of word processor, spreadsheet, slide-show maker and whatnot) on the market, if you exclude price. And given that it's on 90% of business computers, it's the most popular.
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