Stories about: iPlanet

Imagine having to provide authentication and authorization services for some 1,000 departments within your organization, while giving about 360,000 administrators control over which individuals get access to what resources. Now imagine that the vast majority of those groups and administrators work for companies other than your own.

IT security managers should never be complacent about existing technologies because threats can dramatically change in such a short time, according to the security head of wealth management company Asgard.

Former Sun Microsystems executive Mark Tolliver has been named CEO and president of Palamida, which builds automated software that provides intellectual property (IP) management and compliance in software code.

Oracle on Wednesday will introduce Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2, which is being characterized as a significant upgrade to the product with improvements in Java, Web services, and identity management and the addition of RFID backing.

N2H2, a global Internet content filtering company, has released version 2.0 of the company's Sentian and Bess lines of filtering products for Red Hat Linux.

Sun Microsystems's acquisition of Redwood City, California, software company CenterRun Inc. will fill a critical hole in Sun's N1 software strategy, customers said on Thursday.

It was September 2001, and Jeff Immelt had just become General Electric's new chairman. His predecessor, Jack Welch, had come up through the engineering ranks, but Immelt was a marketing guy, and one of his first actions was to survey the company's sales force. He was dismayed to find that members of the sales team were spending far more time on deskbound administrative chores than in face-to-face meetings with customers and prospects.

With Microsoft pushing .Net as an easy alternative to J2EE, Sun Microsystems is fighting back with a strategy designed to make J2EE more accessible to programmers at all skill levels. InfoWorld's Tom Yager and Tom Sullivan spoke to Rich Green, Sun's Vice President of Tools, about how the company is reaching out to developers.

From soaring heights during the dotcom boom, the portals name suffered by association and plunged into obscurity for a while. But their usefulness and accessibility seems to be returning them to the fore.

Upfront preparation helped my company ward off the SQL Slammer worm, which exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server and creates a flood of packets, similar to a denial-of-service attack. But we still didn't totally avoid it.

Telstra continues to tread carefully to avoid been seen taking sides in any Java versus .Net turf war for developer community mindshare.