Linda Rosencrance

When trucking company Roadway Express decided to make its enterprise legacy database management system accessible to users through a browser-based interface, its IT managers planned their strategy carefully.

When trucking company Roadway Express decided to make its enterprise legacy database management system accessible to users through a browser-based interface, its IT managers planned their strategy carefully.

The authors of proposed standards on reporting software security holes have withdrawn the document from the Internet's main standards-setting body, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Corporate security and IT professionals got a chance last week to think like hackers so they could learn how to better prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to their networks.

It was the late 1990s, and FedEx customers were clamouring for a quick and easy way to navigate the fast-paced world of international trade. So CIO Robert B. Carter assembled a team and set about developing FedEx Global Trade Manager.

Two computer security researchers have proposed rules to standardize the way security holes in software are reported and fixed.

Using its manual price-quoting process, DHL officials found it was taking too long to tell its enterprise customers how much it would cost to ship their goods internationally. So DHL turned to software from Metreo to automate its system.

In an announcement yesterday, IBM Corp. introduced new technologies for its eServer xSeries line of Intel-based servers that the company said would increase uptime and lower operating costs for enterprises by 80 per cent over servers from Dell Computer Corp. IBM said its results were based on an IBM server availability measurement tool using methodology and research data from Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn.