Thor Olavsrud

Microsoft used its Tech Ed 2003 conference in Dallas Monday to launch release candidate 1 (RC1) of its Exchange Server 2003 messaging server, and its partners quickly ponied up products to support it. Hewlett-Packard , one of Microsoft’s oldest and closest partners, was one of the first out of the gate, proclaiming that its HP […]

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The first phase of Microsoft’s ‘Jupiter’ e-business Web services suite went to beta Monday bearing the new designation BizTalk Server 2004. Described by Microsoft as the first major milestone in “delivering an integrated, interoperable, modularized, extensible, and secure e-business solution that enables companies to connect information, systems, people and processes,” BizTalk Server 2004 represents the […]

Microsoft placed the focus squarely on its Windows Server System line of products Monday at it’s Tech Ed 2003 conference in Dallas, anchoring the event with the announcement of the availability of release candidate 1 (RC1) of Exchange Server 2003. “RC1 marks a major milestone in the development of Exchange 2003, the most rigorously tested […]

Just a little over a month after Microsoft dished up the official designation of its “Greenwich” Real-Time Communications Server, the software titan Tuesday altered the branding to tie it more closely with its Office System line of products. Microsoft said its Microsoft Real-Time Communications Server (RTC Server) 2003 Standard Edition will now be known as […]

IBM Tuesday became the latest firm to offer up an enterprise email product for “deskless” workers, unveiling IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging. Geared to extending email to factory floor workers, retail clerks, airline employees and other workers who just need “baseline” email capabilities, Workplace Messaging is a Web-based offering that runs on IBM’s WebSphere Internet infrastructure […]

Striving to answer chief competitor IBM’s launch last week of the zSeries z990 mainframe, code-named T-Rex, Unisys Monday took the wraps off a new line of mainframes geared for Web services, and also introduced infrastructure consulting services to help organizations extend their legacy systems. The new Dorado family fills out Unisys’ ClearPath Plus mainframe line, […]

Microsoft threw its weight behind SCO Group’s battle against Linux Monday by declaring that it would license Unix technology from SCO in order to “ensure intellectual property compliance across all Microsoft solutions.”Microsoft’s license covers a patent and source code from Unix. SCO claims that the Linux kernel holds Unix intellectual property owned by SCO. The […]

SCO Group may have put Linux customers on notice Wednesday, but it still has legal hurdles to overcome in proving its legal case, and financing its legal crusade may not be easy either, experts said. SCO told Linux users on Wednesday that they may find themselves in the crosshairs for using the open source operating […]

The SCO Group went on the warpath against Linux Wednesday, issuing a warning that “Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix and that legal liability for the use of Linux may extend to commercial users.” The company, which is pursuing a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM for allegedly improperly including SCO’s Unix intellectual property in […]