Microsoft Shows Exchange Beta 2, Updates ISA Middleware
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Microsoft this week formally named the "Titanium" kicker to its current Exchange Server groupware software, which will be called--you guessed it--Exchange Server 2003. At the same time, the company released the second beta of the program, for developers and user organizations to play with. And attesting to the reliability of the beta, Microsoft said that half of its own employees had been moved to e-mail boxes backed by the beta software. Microsoft also announced feature enhancements to its Internet Security and Acceleration Server. READ MORE >

IBM Outsources xSeries Server Manufacturing
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In a surprising but understandable move, IBM has outsourced the manufacturing of nearly its entire line of Intel-based servers to a contract manufacturer that it has long ties to, Sanmina-SCI, of San Jose, California. IBM wants to make more money on xSeries servers, and the company believes that outsourcing to Sanmina-SCI is better than trying to invent more cost-effective manufacturing processes on its own. Sanmina-SCI got a similar contract last year to make IBM's desktop PCs. READ MORE >

As I See It: You Say You Want a Resolution
by Victor Rozek

Another year, another opportunity to get it right. We are nothing if not a nation of second chances. Just ask our beloved professional athletes regularly caught drugging or beating their unfortunate girlfriends yet seldom losing their jobs. Or, the current crop of public servants indicted and convicted by one administration and rewarded by another, granted a second chance to serve the nation whose laws they disregard. Welcome back, second chancers; our memory is short and our tolerance boundless. READ MORE >

But Wait, There's More . . .

Judge Rules in Favor of Sun, Says Microsoft Must Include Java in Windows . . . Microsoft Says Java VM Has Critical Flaw, Issues New VM for Windows . . . Red Hat Finally on Entire eServer Line . . . OS/2 Is Not Dead, It's Just Sleeping . . . NetIQ Finishes PentaSafe Acquisition, Buys Marshal Software . . . READ MORE >

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