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Mobile processor due from Intel
Mobile processor due from Intel
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A recent survey of senior financial and IT executives at large U.S. corporations reveals that U.S. organizations plan to keep project teams beyond Y2K projects to strengthen project management skills across the board. Most teams reported being able to confidently relate bad news to the top management, and virtually all agreed that the executive staff was receptive to that type of information. A majority of the respondents felt that organizations' project management skills need strengthening, with CIOs overwhelmingly responding in the affirmative.
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Alcatel reveals integrated server
SCO to offer Linux Middleware
Sun-Netscape provides wireless server
iPlanet: The iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is missing -mips3, so it cannot run on MIPS r4000 computers. iPlanet says it will correct this in the next release. Also, if you install SP3 on a computer where you have previously installed Sun Solaris 8 AnswerBook Server, you should not use Express Installation. Use the Typical Install.
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Red Hat prepping formal release of EL/IX
Cisco has discovered that many of its products with Kerberos Client functionality will have leap-year problems. If the Kerberos credentials expire in January or February of leap years, they will fail in a "deny" state, which shuts off all Kerberos-authenticated access. Cisco's short-term workaround is to use another authentication scheme such as TACACS+ or RADIUS. Interim solutions can also be found at www.cisco.com/warp/public/687/directory/dirtac.shtml.
Red Hat prepping formal release of EL/IX
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First Windows 2000 virus detected
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