The “dell direct” mantra seems rate health, of course, and Microsoft,
to be changing to “new Dell SAP and Oracle are battling to be the
Direct-ions.” First, Dell moved ones to help businesses perform their
away from its Intel-only stance, own checkups. Senior Writer Renee
manufacturing servers with AMD Boucher Ferguson reports on Page 20
chips. More recently, it changed its that the vendors are courting CFOs
Microsoft-only positioning, announc- with their respective corporate perfor-ing a partnership with Canonical to mance management applications.
preload Ubuntu Linux on certain Dell On Page 13, Senior Editor Darryl
PCs. And that’s not includ- K. Taft reports that Sun is
ing the ups and downs not sitting by idly as Adobe
and ins and outs of Dell’s and Microsoft do battle for
management—most notably, the hearts and minds of
Michael Dell himself. developers. While Microsoft
e Week’s cover story this recently made news with its
week, reported by Staff Silverlight platform, designed
Writer Scott Ferguson and to help developers deliver the
Senior Editor Jessica Davis next generation of rich-media
starting on Page 22, delves DEBRA DONSTON applications and positioned
into what’s been going squarely against Adobe’s
on at Dell and what it all means for Flash, Sun is lengthening the evalua-enterprise customers. Rounding out tion shortlist with its JavaFX Script.
the coverage, we have Senior Editor Java may be taking a development
Peter Galli’s Page 27 interview with step forward, but it’s taken a security
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth
and, on Page 40, Advanced Technologies Analyst Jason Brooks’ review of
Ubuntu 7.04.
Dell’s not the only company looking
to make changes to improve its corpo-
step backward, according to Senior
Editor Lisa Vaas’ story on Page 16.
Lisa reports on a number of code
defects that are making Java-based
Web apps vulnerable.
In the Labs section, Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza not only
puts two hosted document management systems to the test, he puts
document management in the SAAS
(software as a service) model to the
test as well, starting on Page 35. For
a more detailed look at the products
used as proof points, see Jim’s slide
shows at eweek.com. ´
e WEEK Editor Debra Donston is at
debra_donston@ziffdavis.com.
eweek.com
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Botnet basics: e WEEK Technical Director Cameron Sturdevant provides
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Podcasts
beta of Windows Server emerging technologies that
“Longhorn,” which is still on never got very far in the
track for release sometime in industry, according to Chief
the second half of the year. Technology Analyst Jim
Those two operating systems Rapoza. From products that
will be among the key points tried to let Web sites send
of discussion May 15-17 at scents through the Internet
Microsoft’s WINHEC confer- to DVDs that self-destructed
ence in Los Angeles. Also after they were viewed, from
at the show will be Senior cat-shaped scanners to the
Editor Peter Galli, who will happy-face Microsoft Bob,
be reporting the news from these technologies flopped,
the showroom floor. Keep an thanks to bad marketing, bad
eye open for his reports on innovating or just being bad
Microsoft Watch: Microsoft’s David
Lowe and Microsoft Watch Editor Joe
Wilcox discuss the recent release of
Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3.
has been in the news of late,
particularly with Dell’s decision
to preinstall the open-source
operating system in some of
its consumer PCs. At eweek.
com, Advanced Technologies Analyst Jason Brooks’
slide show takes you on a
walk-through of Ubuntu 7.04,
including a look at the install
disk, the user migration tool,
Feisty Fawn release notes and
upgrade details.
Changing Channels: Gartner analyst
Tiffani Bova speaks with Michael
Vizard, editorial director of Ziff Davis
Media’s Enterprise Group, about the
business issues facing resellers today.
Slide shows
Churchill Downs wagers on Wi-Fi:
Churchill Downs is one of the first
U.S. horse-racing venues to implement both Wi-Fi data communications and wireless wagering.
Channel products of the year:
Solution providers choose 2006’s channel
products of the year in 26 categories.
