Scot Petersen

Web page design has come a long way since the days of Netscape 3.0. But while the Web may look better, few would say it has gotten fundamentally better at displaying information, facilitating customer needs or garnering a strong return on investment. Some design and software companies are taking what may seem to be a […]

By the time you read this, officials may have ratcheted down the orange terror alert a notch, but no matter: The threats against our critical computing infrastructure are as great as ever. Unless you read eWeek or closely monitor news from the Department of Homeland Security, you may not be aware that the National Strategy […]

BBX Technologies Inc., a security startup based in New York, is using the DEMO 2003 conference Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz., to unveil a new Windows shell hardening software. The product, ImmuneEngine, takes a different approach from anti-virus or intrusion detection software (IDS) as it fights off viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, and other unauthorized software […]

Quick, efficient customer feedback is more important than ever, and with Inquisites updated Web survey software, its easier than ever, users say. Inquisite, a division of Catapult Systems Inc., in Austin, Texas, will launch this month Version 5.0 of its namesake product, with new features that promise to make survey creation easier and faster. The […]

If 2001 was a year of cataclysm and change, 2002 was about looking for—and in some cases finding—closure on events that dominated the previous year. IT and government officials refined their view of networking and computing infrastructures through the filter of potential terrorism; Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. shed some of the uncertainty that weighed […]

This was to be the week when President Bushs National Strategy to Secure Cyber Space was to be officially unveiled. The culmination of months of work by the Presidents Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and its chairman, Richard Clarke, the cyber-strategy will be discussed this week, but its release has now been delayed until December while […]

Serena Software Inc. this week is releasing several upgrades throughout its ChangeMan family of products, giving developers new weapons to manage and automate changes to enterprise application code. Key to the updates to the San Mateo, Calif., companys Enterprise Change Management solution is the new XML Services support in Serenas mainframe product, ChangeMan ZMF 5.3. […]

SAN FRANCISCO–UnitedLinux, the server software platform born out of the combined efforts of Caldera International Inc. Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG and Turbolinux Inc., on Tuesday announced the imminent availability of the product for beta testing, promising to breathe new life into the challengers to Red Hat Inc. UnitedLinux will be released to partners of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The Open Source Development Lab today at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here announced several milestones in its mission to take Linux further into the enterprise. The OSDL, a consortium of major software and hardware companies, including IBM, Computer Associates International Inc., Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and others announced the formation of a new […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Scott McNealy was on the attack this morning at a pre-LinuxWorld press conference announcing Suns new Intel-based Linux servers. The Santa Clara, Calif., company will be feeling the squeeze this week, as IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. announce plans to port Solaris users to Linux. But Sun is responding with an […]