John Fontana

IT executives recently saw Microsoft Corp. budge slightly on the issue of supporting access to Active Directory...

With enterprise demand for directory integration at an all-time high, Oracle Corp. and Siemens have become the latest major vendors to answer the call, forming an alliance to deliver a metadirectory product and a set of related support services.

These days the health of corporate mail servers sometimes seems almost as important as the health of the company CEO.

In a roundabout way, IT executives may have gotten a gift from Microsoft last month when the company confirmed that Windows 2000 will not be generally available until early next year.

Network executives overseeing mixed Novell and Microsoft environments are about to get a variety of options for integrating the pair

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.

Microsoft Corp. may appear poised to storm the applications hosting market, but the company actually has quite a few issues to sort out before it bulls ahead.

IBM Corp. has added a server and management tools optimised to support Windows 2000 to its Netfinity server line.