======================================================== SEARCHWIN2000.COM DAILY NEWS May 18, 2001 More headlines at: http://www.searchwin2000.com/searchWin2000_News_Page/0,2008,,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: NetIQ ======================================================== NEW EXCHANGE 2000 WHITE PAPER: Sign up now to get best practices and tips for monitoring and managing Exchange 2000 with this FREE white paper from NetIQ. You will also learn how NetIQ's Exchange Management solutions can help you to ensure the health, availability and performance of your Exchange Servers on a 24x7 basis, reduce support costs associated with managing an Exchange environment and fulfill corporate SLAs. http://www.netiq.com/sponsor/default.asp?249 ======================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "Group says Microsoft's .Net is next monopoly ploy" Microsoft is being accused of playing Monopoly with real money again. Procomp, a group funded by Microsoft's competitors, charged Microsoft with planning to use Windows XP and .Net to commandeer the Internet. Procomp said Microsoft is using .Net to "turn the Internet into a big Microsoft subscription service." SOURCE: Reuters http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/05/17/010517hnploy.xml Want to know how other IT professionals feel about Microsoft�s practices? Visit our new Sound Off Discussion Forum to see several new postings. While you are there, share your opinion of Microsoft�s Monopoly game at http://searchwin2000.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee83d6b. MORE ON THIS TOPIC: Read about the antitrust anniversary at http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO60650,00.html. Internet services are in the news again. Tony Northrup, searchWin2000 Web Administration Expert, is ready to help you manage your web services. Let him help you at http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateAnswers/0,289620,sid1_tax285116,00.html. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- TAKE OUR NEW SURVEY --------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't miss out on your chance to be part of an extensive survey being conducted by searchWin2000 and a handful of other techtarget.com sites. Here's your chance to weigh in on what platform or platforms your company uses to run mission-critical applications. The survey should take you no more than 10 minutes to complete, and for your participation you will receive comprehensive study results prior to their release to the general public. . These results will be available to you FOR FREE. http://www.insightexpress.com/ix/showSurvey.asp?id=26642&accessCode=5477574934&noemail=true ----------------------------------------------- TODAY'S WINDOWS 2000 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ----------------------------------------------- [1] Politically motivated virus hits Europe [2] Another Internet Explorer vulnerability strikes [3] Motorola developing high-availability W2k systems for Telecom OEMs [4] IDC: Server appliance market booming [5] Canada: The great tech north? [1] "Politically motivated virus hits Europe" Sri Lankan politics are helping a virus spread across the globe. The Mawanella virus arrives in an e-mail with the subject line "Mawanella" and carries an attachment "mawanella.vbs." Executing the attached .vbs script will unleash the e-mail on all names in the user's Outlook address book. SOURCE: vnunet http://www.vnunet.com/News/1121764 [2] "Another Internet Explorer vulnerability strikes" You may want to visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-027.asp. There resides a patch you need to fix two newly-found vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer software. Both flaws could let attackers spoof trusted Web sites and trick users into trusting sites they shouldn't. SOURCE: InformationWeek http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010517S0009 [3] "Motorola developing high-availability W2k systems for Telecom OEMs" Windows 2000 will be getting the call from Motorola. The company will add Win2k versions of its specialized line of five-nines, high-availability servers and hardening software for telecom OEMs. Motorola plans deliveries to early adopters in June, with a production release scheduled for Q3. SOURCE: ENT Magazine http://www.entmag.com/breaknews.asp?ID=4517 [4] "IDC: Server appliance market booming" IDC's analysis of the appliance server market shows it grew 166% last year, and it looks like there's no slowing down. IDC says the market will do more than $31 billion in business by 2005, with appliances for e-mail, gateways and databases popping up along the way. Network attached storage or filer appliance servers will account for roughly 55 percent of the market's revenues through 2005. SOURCE: ENT Magazine http://www.entmag.com/breaknews.asp?ID=4516 [5] "Canada: The great tech north?" Canada to IT: "Come on up!" The Great White North is pitching tax incentives, cheaper labor and a stronger broadband infrastructure to lure tech companies across its southern border. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5969247.html?tag=lthd If you would like to comment on today's news, email searchWin2000.com News Editor Ed Parry at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: Library of Computer and Information Sciences ======================================================== Take MCSE Windows 2000 Exam Cram Library for $9.99 with membership to Library of Computer and Information Sciences! This 6-volume, 1 CD-ROM library is the only MCSE "Core 4" certification coach you'll ever need. A $179.97 Value for $9.99. 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SOURCE: The Economist http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=464938 [2] "Web services insider, part 1: Reflections on SOAP" James Snell's new monthly column explores the ever-changing World of Web services. This first installment reviews the current state of Web services by examining the tools and technologies made available over the past year, particularly SOAP. SOURCE: IBM DeveloperWorks http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-ref1.html ------------------------------------------------------- BUYER'S GUIDE ------------------------------------------------------- Visit FastLane Technologies in TechTarget's new Buyer's Guide and check out FastLane DM/ActiveRoles. FastLane ActiveRoles is an innovative Active Directory (AD) enabled management solution. 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Please include your name, title and company name. ------------------------------------------------------- THE MISSING LINK ------------------------------------------------------- A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web "The Little Red Schoolhouse.edu" It's not a stretch to call Brothers, Oregon a one-horse town where running water and electricity are still a luxury in some homes. Certainly, one wouldn't figure the tiny community would be a technological bellwether, but inside its little red schoolhouse, its 18 students in grades K-8 are armed to the hilt with the latest and greatest to take on the Internet generation. Spurred on by a poor state evaluation, the school board took the students into the digital age, hooking them up with more than $41,000 in equipment, including Apple iBook laptops and a wireless radio network system. Now, rather than lessons being lecture-based, students are foraging for information on the Net for collaborative projects that are sure to raise test scores. Now, if they could only figure out how to get the lights to work and the water to run... SOURCE: The Associated Press http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,43837,00.html ======================================================== If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter simply reply to this message with "REMOVE" in the subject line. Or, visit http://searchWin2000.techtarget.com/register and adjust your subscriptions accordingly. If you choose to unsubscribe using our automated processing, you must send the "REMOVE" request from the email account to which this newsletter was delivered. Please allow 24 hours for your "REMOVE" request to be processed.
