==================================================================== SEARCHWIN2000 DAILY NEWS September 24, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/news/0,,sid1,00.html ==================================================================== Sponsored by : NetIQ ==================================================================== FREE ACTIVE DIRECTORY TOOL Get essential, real-time diagnostics for Microsoft Active Directory with NetIQ's ADcheck - your powerful, free diagnostic tool. With ADcheck, you can quickly check domain controllers, domains and replication. After the first test, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Download your FREE copy now at http://www.netiq.com/f/form/form.asp?id=30 ==================================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "Intel maximizes Windows management" It's a good week to be a Windows user. This week Intel introduces its Total Management Initiative, which is designed to let users get more from Windows. TMI is promising better control of desktops, improved usability, installation and reporting. A major new release of Intel's LANDesk Management Suite (with Active Directory support) is reported to be part of the initiative. SOURCE: eWEEK http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2814067,00.html Read how to get more from your Microsoft products at http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid1_gci762296,00.html. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- TODAY'S WINDOWS 2000 AND INDUSTRY NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Scale-up: Wintel loses a price-performance battle [2] Microsoft, Unisys prep 64-bit SQL Server [3] Proof Linux can replace Windows 2000? [4] Microsoft hitting UK plc with "Windows tax" [5] States voice Windows XP concerns [6] New studies reveal Nimda's tenacity [1] "Scale-up: Wintel loses a price-performance battle" An HP benchmark published this week has a Unix system beating a Windows system on price for comparable performance. HP Server rp8400 midrange Unix/RISC begs comparisons to the 32-way Unisys system running Windows Datacenter Server and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. The lead product manager for SQL Server says HP used Sybase Adaptive Server 12 in its benchmark and suggested they may have used the database to drive down the system cost. SOURCE: ENT Magazine http://www.entmag.com/breaknews.asp?ID=4959 [2] "Microsoft, Unisys prep 64-bit SQL Server" Liberty will be let loose on the marketplace within months of the Windows.Net rollout in early 2002 (typical lag time is 60-90 days). Liberty is the code-name for the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2000. Early versions of it will be available to some ISVs within weeks. Great expectations will come with the database -- some integrators say SQL Server now has a shot at the high end. SOURCE: CRN http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/BreakingNews.asp?ArticleID=30009 [3] "Proof Linux can replace Windows 2000?" An inquiring IT consultant wanted to know: Can the penguin waddle with Win2k on the desktop? The answer in a nutshell? Yes. He found that spreading Linux across a network with one server and 24 clients could trim up to $10,000 from the IT budget. He recommends Red Hat 7.1 as "the way to go." SOURCE: vnunet http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125583 [4] "Microsoft hitting UK plc with 'Windows tax'" A user group in the UK is not amused. The Infrastructure Forum says Microsoft's new licensing policies are worthy of a government investigation. Why? Because those policies will cost UK companies more than one billion pounds. The forum is calling that excess poundage a "Windows tax." SOURCE: IT-Director http://www.it-director.com/frame.php?name=Silicon.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.silicon.com%2Fpublic%2Fdoor%3FREQUNIQ%3D1001317387%266004REQEVENT%3D%26REQINT1%3D47628%26REQSTR1%3Dnewsnow [5] "States voice Windows XP concerns" Attorneys general from six states have signed and sent a letter to Steve Ballmer, saying they want to "add our voices to those calling on Microsoft to remedy the antitrust problems that are now evident." The AGs are worried XP will just carry on the monopolistic torch. None of those six states is among the 18 that have hooked up with the Department of Justice in the case. SOURCE: Reuters http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7252036.html?tag=mn_hd [6] "New studies reveal Nimda's tenacity" Check out some of the Nimda worm horror stories in this CNET article. The worm seems to be slowing, but it has done such a horribly good "burrowing" job, companies are having trouble flushing it from their networks. 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After explaining the details of Microsoft's new Windows Product Activation (WPA) feature, columnist Fred Langa uses the rest of this article for sharp rhetoric. Langa berates Redmond for what he considers to be a foolish anti-piracy strategy that will backfire on the software giant. "What gall!" Langa says. SOURCE: Information Week http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010816S0015 "Microsoft's product activation will drive people to the dark side" Columnist Jerry Honeycutt believes that Redmond is sending normally law-abiding software users to the other side with its inconvenient new product activation and licensing rules. Honeycutt agrees that Microsoft has a right to protect its assets. But he says the company is addressing the issue of software piracy the wrong way, which could have disastrous results. SOURCE: TechRepublic http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?src=search&id=r00220010807cnt01.htm ==================================================================== WIN! WIN! 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