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Microsoft tape
backup flaw found
MICROSOFT OFFICIALS LATE LAST WEEK CONfirmed
they are investigating reports that
tape backups made with Windows
Server 2003 cannot be read by older
versions of the operating system.The
problem lies within Windows’ built-in
NTBackup program.The 2003 version
writes 64KB blocks while older versions
use 32KB,industry analysts said.Thirdparty
backup programs that do not use
NTBackup.exe are not affected.
E-mail scam targets
Citibank customers
ANOTHER BANK-RELATED E-MAIL SCAM
began circulating last week,this one targeting
users of a money-transfer service
owned by Citibank.
The fraudulent e-mail attempts to lure
customers of the c2it money-transfer service
into divulging user names,passwords
and credit card numbers.The message
appears to be from c2it customer service
but is actually from a Hotmail account.
The e-mail arrives with the subject line,
“Your account is on hold.”
Salesforce offers
‘keys’ to CRM system
SALESFORCE.COM IS PLANNING TO SHORE UP
its application integration capabilities
with a new developer’s tool kit called
Sforce,which the company will
announce next week.The hosted CRM
services provider is partnering with
Microsoft,BEA,Sun and Borland for the
offering,which will give developers the
“keys”to the Salesforce.com system,
exposing code,system intricacies and
database key indices.The hosted service
will support Web services integration
with other applications and be preconfigured
for use with development tools
such as Microsoft’s Visual Studio .Net
and Borland’s JBuilder.Sforce should be
available June 3.´
10 eWEEK n MAY 26, 2003
WINDOWS SERVER 2003 FROM PAGE 7
ple updates from the basic release of
the platform itself. But the challenge
was the business, licensing and pricing
model under which these were
released.
“That is not clear at this point. Will
end users have any idea what the total
cost of operation will be if every now and
again Microsoft changes the prices on
some functions?” Kusnetzky asked.
Dave Thompson, corporate vice
president of the Windows Server Product
Group at Microsoft, said out-of-band
releases are effectively part of Windows
Server. “Innovation does not
UML FROM PAGE 7
researchers are looking into several innovations
using the new specification.
IBM will be looking to build a UML
profile for testing. This work will lead
to “using modeling not just for analysis
and design but for testing,” Iyengar
said. “We expect this technology will
become a standard,” he said.
IBM’s approach to modeling signals
a race with Microsoft Corp., which is
warming up to the OMG for similar purposes.
Microsoft will support modeling
in its upcoming Jupiter e-business suite,
which will compete with IBM’s Web-
Sphere.
Iyengar said IBM is also looking to
provide support for modeling business
rules and add business modeling standards.
The OMG has a business rules
working group to which IBM has submitted
a paper describing its work.
“But this is in the early stages,” Iyengar
said. Standards in these areas are
expected next year, he said.
In addition to its use of the MDA
(Model Driven Architecture) specification,
IBM is pushing toward a new
area, which Iyengar calls Model Driven
Business Integration, while the company
also has a focus on model-driven tool
integration and model-driven application
development, he said.
MDA allows developers to design,
build, integrate and manage applications
throughout the life cycle while separating
technology and business concerns,
Iyengar said.
EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework)
is the glue that holds together IBM’s
modeling strategy. “EMF is the technology
that unifies the world of model-
have to wait for major releases,” Thompson
said.
Jamison suggested that a Windows
Server release in the “Longhorn” client
time frame, expected to ship in early
2005, is not likely. He did say that “Blackcomb,”
the major Windows release following
Longhorn, could be expected in
a time frame “roughly similar to how
we’ve done it before [three years].”
Jamison said this release will extend
the underlying security work in Windows
Server 2003 and build on the work
already done in .Net Framework and Universal
Description, Discovery and Integration
in Server 2003. ´
Modeling at IBM
�Being implemented in all major
brands: Rational,WebSphere,DB2
and Tivoli,with Lotus to come
�Modeling used for tools integration,application
development,data
warehouse management and Web
services
�Moving from MDA to Model Driven
Business Integration
�Mapping UML to Business Process
Execution Language
ing in WebSphere and DB2,” Iyengar
said. “The use of EMF will increase
within IBM and externally,” among
members of the IBM-sponsored
Eclipse.org organization, which oversees
the Eclipse open-source development
platform, he said.
“I was at an IBM Web services meeting
in Atlanta recently, and it is clear they
are with the [modeling] program,” said
Tom Henner, a principal with BankHost
Inc., an Atlanta-based banking company
that has used modeling to develop a
browser-based international banking
application. “BankHost developed its
application using IBM’s Rational Rose
for UML modeling,” Henner said.
In a report on IBM’s modeling strategy,
Aberdeen Group Inc. analyst Tim
Sloane, in Boston, said: “For competitors,
the fact that IBM has made modeling
central to its go-to-market model
for both IBM Global Services and IBM
products should give them pause for
consideration. Is your company positioned
to implement a similar plan?” ´