=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCHWIN2000 | Windows 2000 and Industry News February 25, 2002 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _____________________________________________________________________ ********** SPONSORED BY: VeriSign - The Value of Trust **************
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Featured Topic: Taming Terminal Services - Best Web Links: Interoperability and Integration - Know-IT-All Quiz of the Day: #118 - Quick Hit of the Day: Defragging RAID - Online Event: Securing Exchange - The Missing Link: E-mail pranks may scare off users _____________________________________________________________________ LEAD STORY SERVER DATABASES CLASH | News: eWEEK EWEEK Labs ran a bunch of database products through the benchmark ringer: DB2 7.2 with FixPack 5, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2, MySQL 4.0.1 Max, Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.0.1.1.1 and Sybase's ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) 12.5.0.1. Testers found Oracle9i and MySQL had the best performance and scalability. SQL Server and MySQL were the easiest to tune -- 9i was the hardest to tune. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/newsItem/0,289139,sid1_gci804148,00.html FOR MORE INFORMATION: Best Web Links on SQL Server: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid1_tax53c,00.html Sign up for our free monthly SQL Server tip e-mail: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/register/1,,sid1,00.html _____________________________________________________________________ ********************************************************************* OTHER STORIES In addition to the headlines below, others are available on our news page. >> FULL STORIES: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/news =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= MICROSOFT "AMBASSADOR" CALLS IT QUITS | News: CNET Linda Stone is leaving Microsoft after less than two years as a company ombudsman. She's the one who tried to soothe sometimes rancorous relations between Redmond and Silicon Valley. Stone and Steve Ballmer reportedly didn't see eye to eye on company/customer issues, although Ballmer has praised Stone's accomplishments. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/newsItem/0,289139,sid1_gci804165,00.html EXPERT APPOINTED TO REVIEW WINDOWS SOURCE CODE | News: Wininformant A professor at the University of Utah's School of Computing has the honor of looking at the Windows source code. The judge in the antitrust case appointed Lee A. Hollaar to find out if Microsoft really can't "unbundle" Windows, as it claims. Hollaar will put the latest Windows releases, including XP Home and Professional Editions and XP Embedded, under the microscope. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/newsItem/0,289139,sid1_gci804158,00.html DANISH GOVT. REBELS AGAINST MS LICENSE TERMS | News: The Register Something stinks in Denmark -- it's the stink some Danes are making over Microsoft's license terms. Several government IT workers say the proposed 30% price hike for Windows 2000 and Office 2000 licenses does not make financial sense to them -- they're looking at open source alternatives in an effort to save money. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/newsItem/0,289139,sid1_gci804170,00.html OOPS! TRUE IT STORY #8 | News: searchWindowsManageability "Clueless" could be the subtitle for this blooper about a user, a firewall, and a missing link. http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci801948,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ADDITIONAL SEARCHWIN2000 NEWS HEADLINES More headlines are available on our news page >> FULL STORIES: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/news _____________________________________________________________________ ***************** SPONSORED BY: Windows Decisions ******************* Don't miss our Windows Decisions conference May 8-10 at the Hilton Chicago Hotel. 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Make sure it's the former with a thorough understanding of the cost, security and maintenance issues outlined in this week's featured topic. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid1_gci803515,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= INTEROPERABILITY AND INTEGRATION | Best Web Links Not everyone is lucky enough to manage only one OS. But never fear -- the articles and advice in this collection of Best Web Links will help you manage multiple version of Windows, Windows/Linux, or any other combination you might think of. http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid33_tax287642,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= KNOW-IT-ALL QUIZ OF THE DAY | #118 This is the inclusion of a secret message in otherwise unencrypted text or images: a) masquerade b) steganography c) spoof d) eye-in-hand system >>CLICK for the correct answer... http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci803905,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DEFRAGGING RAID | Quick Hit of the Day A searchWindowsManageability user asks: How do I defrag RAID technologies? Our defrag Expert steps up to the plate with his answer: http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid33_cid449904_tax288093,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SECURING EXCHANGE | Online Event When: Thursday, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:00 PM EST (19:00 GMT) Speaker: Chris Weber, Foundstone, Inc. Join us this Thursday for this Live Expert Q&A! Chris Web will explain how you can ward off e-mail threats from hackers, viruses -- even malicious employees -- with the most effective security-related configurations. He'll also discuss key differences between Exchange 5.5 and 2000. >>CLICK to pre-register... http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid1,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= E-MAIL PRANKS MAY SCARE OFF USERS | The Missing Link Could a game of strip poker scare the pants off e-mail users? One psychologist thinks it's in the cards. Last week a British man's supposedly private game turned into a global "peekfest," as pictures of him stretched far beyond their intended e-recipients and landed as far away as Australia and Singapore. A psychologist in Manchester predicts incidents like these will strip e-mail of its popularity as an informal medium. The theory is that people will be more afraid of their private info (or in this case, their private parts!) getting into public hands. He thinks this could mean the phone call (gasp) may make a comeback! 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