BindView Development Corp. will release a product next month designed to give e-mail administrators better control over Microsoft Exchange systems that are handling growing numbers of users and messages.
While IBM Corp. officials continue to say they won't consume their Lotus subsidiary, the first glimpse of the larger picture Big Blue hopes to plug Domino into was evident this week at Lotusphere 2000.
While Lotus Development blames the Y2K scare and last year's tardy release of Domino for the slow adoption rate of R5, there is another issue that is giving network managers pause.
While Lotus Development Corp. blames the Y2K scare and last year's tardy release of Domino for the slow adoption rate of R5, there is another issue that is giving network managers pause.
Microsoft Corp. this week began what could be the most dramatic metamorphosis of its 25-year history, and it will happen without Bill Gates at the helm.
Enterprise customers know the real value of Lotus Domino is in its use as a platform for applications that take advantage of the server's collaboration and messaging features. So next week at Lotusphere 2000 in Orlando, Lotus' business partners will show off applications that exploit new Domino R5 features, such as support for XML.
Since Lotus Development Corp. has already let plans for its Raven knowledge management suite out of the bag, the company will use its upcoming annual user conference to answer questions as to whether the project will fly in the enterprise.
The one thing guaranteed as the new year begins is that by the time the year ends, network operating system developments will be one of 2000's top stories.
IT executives who have been eyeing Linux as an alternative operating system for enterprise servers are beginning to see more diverse options emerge from the open-source arena.
IT executives who have been eyeing Linux as an alternative operating system for enterprise servers are beginning to see more diverse options emerge from the open-source arena.
Novell has quietly shelved a key directory-integration tool, which will likely force IT executives with mixed environments to make an either/or choice between NetWare and Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 2000.
Less than 80 days before year 2000, a striking number of software and hardware products once deemed Y2K-compliant are showing new vulnerabilities to the millennium bug.
The compliance reversals are forcing IT executives to repeat remediation work that had been considered complete, and the reversals underscore the insidious nature of the Y2K bug.
The Sun-Netscape Alliance has unveiled an integrated bundle of applications that could make it easier for companies to set up directory-based systems for managing end users across internal networks and extranets.
Cabletron Systems' Spectrum business unit has licensed directory technology from the Sun-Netscape Alliance and will bundle it with Spectrum policy-based management software.
With server crashes achieving occupational hazard status, utility vendor Winternals has come up with a recovery utility that remotely administers to ill Windows NT machines.