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July 29, 2004
Opsware System 4.5 is now available
Data center automation software developer Opsware (www.opsware.com) said on Tuesday that the satellite technology available with the recently released data center automation solution Opsware System 4.5 is now available as an individual appliance.

July 28, 2004
June 2004 Netcraft survey highlights
The Netcraft Web Server Study is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its June 2004 survey from 51,635,284 sites. This is more than 1 million more sites than responded in May.

July 27, 2004
MyDoom virus slams Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos
Google, Lycos and AltaVista have been out of service all morning, while Yahoo has been slow. That's a function of how the worm spreads, said Craig Schmugar, a virus researcher at McAfee. Once installed, the virus searches for e-mail addresses on the host computer's hard drive, and then it looks for more by running queries on all four search engines. "It is kind of an inadvertent (denial-of-service) attack," he said, because the search sites are being knocked out in the quest for more e-mail addresses. This is a twist on MyDoom: Earlier variants looked for e-mail addresses only on the host hard drive.

July 22, 2004
PHP version 5.0 now available
Zend Technologies announced earlier this week that it has released PHP version 5.0. PHP, an open source, server side scripting language that helps create dynamic Web pages, is used in over 15 million Web sites, with 10,000 new downloads per month. According to Zend, updates to PHP 5 include a major new release of the Zend Engine, support for object-oriented development, XML processing advancements and the addition of Web services support.

July 19, 2004
Web Host Globix Merges with NEON
Managed application and Web hosting provider Globix has merged with NEON Communications, a provider of optical networking services for customers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic markets.

July 14, 2004
Software developers must work together to improve Internet security
A wave of new Internet security initiatives is rising as software makers and equipment suppliers realize that they must work together to keep networks more secure. Cisco and Enterasys have already announced partnership programs with security vendors, and now software giant Microsoft has gotten into the game with its own partnership program, intended to improve Internet security.

July 12, 2004
Windows XP Service Pack 2 will be late
Microsoft said Monday that its long-awaited update of Windows XP will be sent to manufacturing in August, a month later than expected. The product should be in customers' hands later that month. Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, will contain a number of new features. Most of the improvements deal with security. One new feature, for example, is a Security Center that provides a view of a PC's key protection settings. An improved firewall and other tweaks are also planned.

July 10, 2004
Gambling sites report more outages
According to research and analysis firm Netcraft, online gambling sites had outages earlier this week, upon the completion of the European soccer championships and the Wimbledon tennis finals.

July 5, 2004
Avantex launches new data center in Dallas, Texas
Strategically located in some of the largest cities in North America, including San Diego, CA., Hoboken, NJ., Kelowna, BC., Toronto, ON. and Montreal, QC., Avantex's new Dallas data center represents its sixth major installation in professional Web hosting services. Avantex's data centers integrate the latest in high technology equipment, data routers, Linux servers, Windows 2003 servers, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), industrial diesel power generators, etc.