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  1. Interland Will Continue Trellix Services

    Interland will continue to sell and support its Trellix line of private-label site building tools, and says the software remains an important part of its strategy despite recent staff cuts.

    Interland bought Trellix last year for more than $12 million. On March 11 Interland closed the former Trellix headquarters in Concord, Mass. and laid off most staff at that office, prompting reports that the entire Trellix unit was shutting down. That's not the case, according to Fabrice Klein, Interland's vice president of strategy and investor relations. "It's a live platform with revenues, so we obviously want to support that," said Klein. "Customers are not going to see any change in service." Numerous ISPs, portals and domain registrars use Trellix Web Express as their private-label site building tool.

    Largest Trellix Users, March 2004
    Company Hostnames
    using Trellix    		  Primary Business&nbsp
    Lycos 14,938 Portal
    Earthlink 5,801 ISP
    Interland 5,647 Mixed Hosting
    InfoSpace Inc. 3,377 Portal
    Hurricane Electric 2,948 Mixed Hosting
    Abacus America, Inc. 2,299 Mixed Hosting

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 31st March, 2004 in Hosting Share

  2. CAIDA: Witty Exposes ‘Spectacular Failure’ of Patch System

    The Witty worm has exposed the "spectacular failure" of the current approach to computer security, according to a new analysis, which warns that the worm's innovations could be reproduced to create a vastly more damaging event.

    The report by the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) says Witty broke new ground by simultaneously infecting dozens of machines maintained by security-savvy users, and targeting a very recent vulnerability. Witty's spread was limited primarily by its destructive nature and the small installed base of the ISS products it exploited, CAIDA noted, positing that similar tactics could be repeated using huge "botnets" of compromised boxes targeting Windows machines.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 26th March, 2004 in Security Share

  3. Of blogs and wikis

    The current excitement over blogs is curious, since they amount to little more than personal Web pages. Although a standard history of blogging dates the phenomenon to 1997, the key attributes of the blog - a page of selected links and comments in reverse chronological order - can be found as far back as June 1993 on the NCSA What's New site, one of the most popular destinations of the nascent Web world.

    In those days, such a constantly-updated page was enormously useful, since it could aspire to provide links to almost all of the new Web sites as they came online. Today, blogs necessarily offer only a partial view of the vastly greater resources now available. This, of course, is their strength: they represent a very personal filter of the otherwise overwhelming data deluge.

    One of the best examples of this classic blog is also one of the earliest. Dave Winer, a software industry veteran and co-developer of one of the first blogging software tools, has been producing his blog Scripting News since April 1997. Another of his sites shows new blogs, but the number is now so great that its simple listing is no longer useful. Today there are as many blogs as there were Web pages a few years ago; this has led to the rise of a range of blog search engines.

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    Posted by Glyn Moody on 26th March, 2004 in Around the Net Share

  4. Interview: Peter Pathos, President, The Planet

    Peter Pathos has guided The Planet Internet Services of Dallas through a period of dynamic growth, posting impressive numbers in the first two months of 2004. Pathos, the company's president, launched The Planet after selling the ISP he founded, National Knowledge Networks, to Verio in 1998. In an interview with Rich Miller, Pathos shares his views about hosting technology, the SCO case, and how security issues will bring about the death of the "mom-and-pop" hosting company. (more...)

    Posted by Rich Miller on 25th March, 2004 in Hosting, Interviews Share

  5. RIAA site intermittently available, now running Linux

    The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)'s site is now transiently available after an extended outage and now appears to be running Linux.

    Inevitably, this will lead to speculation that SCO might add the RIAA to the list of Linux using organizations currently receiving attention from its lawyers.

    Of course, the RIAA is itself well endowed with lawyers should it need to defend itself, and just yesterday announced the latest in its own series of lawsuits against Internet users it believes are improperly sharing copyrighted music files.

    RIAA site performance

    The RIAA site has been offline since March 17 in an outage that closely tracked a scheduled distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from computers infected by the MyDoom.F virus.

    If MyDoom.F was indeed the culprit, it raises an ongoing threat for the RIAA site, as the malware is programmed to launch its DDoS between the 17th and 22nd days of every month.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 24th March, 2004 in Performance Share

  6. Interview with Jim Gray, Manager, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center

    Jim Gray won the 1998 Turing Award "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research." More recently, he has been working as a Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft's Scalable Servers Research Group, based in San Francisco, on the creation of terabyte-sized distributed online databases. Talking with Glyn Moody, Gray reflects on his career, the power of Web services, and the arrival of sentient machines later this century. (more...)

    Posted by Glyn Moody on 24th March, 2004 in Around the Net, Interviews Share

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