Outlook! keeps away! exclamation sign!
Iomega brings this week a new version of its popular Zip-drive on the market. It goes round an internal model for PC with an ATAPI-interface - of which last year all an expensiver versions on the market were brought. The new Zip is especially more attractive for cheaper computers, the PC that for less then 2000 guilder about the counter go. Iomega will offer the new drive for 99.95 dollars.
IBM brings in in June upgrades from for the different tools its VisualAge-toolkit. The business promises a faster production of applicaties for business applications with version 4.0 of VisualAge C + + and addition of VisualAge More exemplarily on VisualAge for Java and at Visual SmallTalk.
Novell will bundle the Oracle8-database with its NetWare-software. A version for five users will become added free of charge at version 5.0 of NetWare, that later on this year expected becomes. Until it so far is will ORACLE8 from June by NetWare 4.11 be furnished. The buneling of the network software with the data boss is the result of an agreement that Novell last year ditch with Oracle. In that spoke to integrate the two businesses off round each other's products (NetWare, Novell Directory Service, Oracle data boss Server and Application Serve) more strongly. End this month brings Novell the third bta-version from of NetWare 5.0.
After almost a year Symantec have and Trend Micro their quarrel about patent violations bijgelegd. The businesses arranged round to divide the technology behind their virus opponents (Norton AntiVirus and ScanMail, PC-Cillin). Also will they viruses that in their laboratories become discovers mutually out change. Trend Micro has yet a trial walk against Network Associates, that neat as Symantec is accused of the coppered of software with which computer viruses on a network can become discovers.
Adversaries of censorship have criticism uttered on the manner on which Microsoft users of its e-mail and news-client Outlook 98 will protect against spam (unsollicited advertising per e-mail). The software giant has foresee the newest version of built in filters. Who for this automatic censor chooses walks a hope information wrong, mean the opponents of censorship. Outlook 98 had to inform for instance to intercept as it an exclamation sign (as in 'free of charge!') or question mark in the subject prevents. Microsoft says the filters to have made after study of more than two million spam-inform.