eWEEK Editorial Board

Sun Microsystems decision to extend its Java Enterprise System to Windows- and HP-UX-based servers should give IT managers a healthy dose of platform independence—the kind that many have been demanding for years. Its another step for Sun down the path of open and cross-platform software. Its a path that promises choice for users and perhaps […]

Both antitrust enforcers and enterprise technology professionals must look toward the future, not the past. The U.S. District Court in San Francisco is looking in the wrong direction in its analysis of Oracles proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft; we urge enterprise IT buyers not to make the same mistake. Regardless of whether one sees the Oracle-PeopleSoft […]

Who runs the Internet? Theres no simple answer to that question. The Web is a collective enterprise, but several players have key roles. One of those players is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, which is responsible for IP address space allocation and other important technical ground rules by which the […]

Should businesses and consumers be able to expect ISPs and businesses they deal with not to snoop into their communications and Internet use? Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston answered no by affirming an earlier ruling dismissing charges against an executive whose company provided e-mail services to book dealers. The executive […]

Imagine being able to stop most spam, viruses and fraudulent e-mail messages—and easily detecting those few that get through. How much would you pay and how much work would you be willing to put in to achieve that? Most of us would welcome a solution that could get those results at any price—and we would […]

We have condemned in this space the poor balance between benefit and harm struck by the grandiosely named and poorly conceived Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. As we observed at the end of last year, the acts broad anti-circumvention clause—Section 1201—has become a multiedged tool that corporations are invoking to kill competition. We therefore […]

With companies facing increasingly fierce pressures to meet shareholder and Wall Street demands for earnings growth, offshore outsourcing to cut costs has become more than an attractive option. It has become a fact of IT life. While outsourcing best practices for help desk work and application development are well-understood, best practices for database administration outsourcing […]

Web services represent the third attempt to rebuild enterprise IT on the standards-based foundation conceived by Tim Berners-Lee. To realize that vision, vendors and IT pros must resist some familiar temptations and avoid some traditional mistakes. The first Web was a tool of research, and it has succeeded beyond all expectations in putting facts at […]

We could hear the whistling in advance, and, indeed, the decision by Sun to license the source code for its flagship Solaris operating system was a bombshell. Now, after the impact, the speculation really begins as the Sun and open-source communities await clarification of just what Sun intends to do. There are many unanswered questions: […]

At the recent Tech Ed show in San Diego, Microsoft executives made many announcements about the future directions and key features of their products. In a keynote speech, Andy Lees, corporate vice president in charge of server and tools marketing, discussed a plan to increase integration and ease of management across all of Microsofts server […]