Stories about: Three Pillars

Installs fast, runs fast, and downloads fast. These will be the characteristics of Symantec Corporation's next-generation security products for consumers, an executive said Monday.

Microsoft introduced the public beta version of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 at VoiceCon. Following the announcement, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president, of Microsoft's Unified Communications Group, discussed with Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth how Microsoft's SIP-based VOIP, messaging and collaboration server fits in, and competes, in the enterprise convergence market.

Microsoft's .Net Framework 3.0, featuring the company's latest innovations in Web services, presentation and workflow, is now available to developers, the company said on Monday.

Fred Held was CIO at Mattel Toys Inc. for most of the 1970s. He recalls the day a gung-ho marketing executive, apparently having just read Popular Science, asked, "Can we put a chip in every product, hook up to spy satellites and track where everyone goes, so we can really see who buys our toys? We could check which stores have too much inventory and transfer product accordingly."

What started as a cute marketing slogan -- "Just say no to software" -- may turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The herd of CRM and ERP ASPs is growing stronger not only in services and features but also in number of customers. And as the herd grows stronger, it's fissuring over whether customers are best served by specialized, industry-specific applications or the tools to customize hosted services for their particular needs.

The managed security services field narrowed on Tuesday, as TruSecure announced that it had acquired Vigilinx Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

TruSecure Corp. bolstered its security services offerings Monday when it announced the release of TruSecure 5.0, which is built around a new security console. The company also announced the full integration of services provided by Three Pillars Inc. into TruSecure's services lineup, a company it bought in January.

Managed security firm TruSecure Corp. Monday announced that it has acquired managed infrastructure security company Three Pillars Inc. The terms of the all-stock deal were not disclosed, though the deal is already final.

Adam Bosworth, senior vice president of engineering at BEA Systems Inc., showed off an alpha version of a forthcoming application development framework for building Web services here Thursday at the InfoWorld Next-Generation Web Services conference.

It's the year of the enterprise for Microsoft and the software giant is going big guns for the market with its enterprise server offerings.

Sony has launched a range of notebooks onto the local retail market which will be sold directly as well as through the channel.