'Patch Tuesday' this month brought nine bulletins from Microsoft covering fourteen vulnerabilities in total and ranging in scope from a vulnerability in the Windows FTP client, which could allow an attacker to tamper with the file transfer location on the client during an FTP file transfer session, to a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which could allow remote code execution.

MetaSolv Software, a global leader in comprehensive operational support system solutions for next-generation communications service providers, has announced that its 2005 Provisioning Symposium will be held October 18th and 19th, 2005 in London, UK.

The Renault F1 Team has announced that Xansa will become the team's Official Supplier of Software Development and Consulting. Growing from a successful project collaboration during the team's championship-winning 2005 season, this multi-year agreement will harness Xansa's leading-edge technology to deliver enhanced off-car data analysis systems, ultimately leading to improved on-track performance.

LiveVault Corporation, the leading provider of disk-based online backup and recovery solutions for business servers, launched LiveVault InSync Service for Microsoft DPM, which supports and extends the capabilities of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM).

8e6 Technologies, a leading supplier of Internet Content Filtering, Monitoring and Reporting Appliances, announced they are reselling two of Tandberg Data Corporation's Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. These NAS units, the InteliNAS 4100 and the InteliNAS 4160, can be connected to the 8e6 Enterprise Reporter to enhance its ability to retain years of Internet usage history.

To enable the secure transmission of critical business data to mobile workers, Oracle announced that Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2 will support Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system installed on more than 39 million data-enabled mobile phones.

Further expanding its identity management offerings, BMC Software, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, announced the global availability of BMC Identity Management Suite, version 5.0.

Business and technology leaders around the world now have the opportunity to experience what hundreds of Business Objects customers who tested the ground-breaking new platform already know -- that significant innovations in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 give users a way to access information and share knowledge as they have never done before.

Quest Software Inc., a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, announced that the new version of JClass ServerChart is now certified by IBM as an integrated plug-in for the IBM Rational Software Development Platform (SDP), which is built on Eclipse.

Astaro Corporation has released version 6.1 of its award-winning Astaro Security Gateway software that provides the first unified threat management, network security solution with dual virus scanning, utilizing two of the market leading engines - Kaspersky and ClamAV.

SenSage, the leading provider of enterprise security analytics, has introduced SenSage 3.5 which overcomes event-data management obstacles, and streamlines compliance, investigation and monitoring processes.

Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 6.0, marking the first product upgrade following the acquisition of TimesTen in June 2005. The release adds significant enhancements focused on major reases in caching performance and availability, larger in-memory databases and data caches, tighter integration with other Oracle products, and broader support of industry standards such as SQL and Java.

Symantec Corp has extended the capabilities of VERITAS Cluster Server, the industry's leading independent heterogeneous clustering and availability software, to lude full support for leading replication solutions that lude: EMC SRDF (luding SRDF/A), EMC MirrorView, Hitachi TrueCopy, HP Continuous Access XP, the IBM High-Availability Disaster Recovery capability of DB2 Universal Database.

Quest Software, a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, has announced that it has been named by IDC as the No. 1 market share leader in distributed data management facilities (DMF) software.

Nick Mayes, Principal Analyst for Global Computing Services at Datamonitor, noted: 'Overall, this has been a major quarter for offshore sourcing. Large corporations such as ABN AMRO are dealing directly with offshore services vendors, and are signing deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with them. Global IT sourcing models are gaining mainstream acceptance.'

ArcSight, the global leader in Enterprise Security Management (ESM) software, has announced the release of version 3.5 of its flagship solution. ArcSight ESM 3.5 specifically addresses the mission-critical security and compliance requirements of the largest, most demanding deployments in the enterprise security management market .

'Google worked quickly to complete the fix on its website, which is no longer exposed to this vulnerability,' said secure content management solutions provider Finjan, as it back-announced that it had informed Google last week of a dangerous cross site scripting vulnerability on its website.

Overland Storage today announced that it has signed a License and Distribution Agreement with a major OEM customer for the company's REO Protection OS intelligent, embedded data protection software.

Internet security pioneer and leader Check Point Software Technologies has agree to buy privately held Sourcefire, creator of Snort, for $225M - helping Check Point expand its strategy from primarily offering perimeter gateway security solutions to provide a fully integrated architecture for perimeter, internal, Web and endpoint security.

McAfee today raised the risk assessment to Medium on the recently discovered W32/Sober.r@MM!M-151, also known as Sober.r. The worm arrives as a .zip file attached to e-mail and has many of the same functionalities as its Sober predecessors.

Global Software, which calls itself the premier provider of real-time spreadsheet financial and business performance management (BPM) analytics tools, announced that it will partner with Paris, France-based ERA Informatique to resell its Spreadsheet Server for J.D. Edwards, Budget Manager for J.D. Edwards, and Executive DASH applications.

TriGeo Network Security, the pioneer and leader of Automated Remediation through Intelligent Correlation, announced the 64-bit version of TriGeo Security Information Manager (SIM). Version 3.2 is the first completely 64-bit security information management appliance on the market and was designed specifically to leverage the power of high-performance processors.

Strategic Computer Solutions, an IBM Premier and On Demand Business Partner with more than 1,500 customers in the northeast, announced the acquisition of Principle Software, a New England eBusiness and portal solutions innovator, by its related company, Strategic Computer Services, LLC.

IBM and Univa Corporation announced a joint agreement whereby IBM will license commercial releases of Globus software from Univa, the leading provider of commercial software and professional services for open source Globus software.

Altiris, a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning IT resources,announced 'revolutionary' new software management capabilities available with the upcoming release of Altiris Software Virtualization Solution.

Interlink Networks, a leading developer of network security and access control software, today announced the release of the newest version of its RAD-Series RADIUS authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server, Version 7.1, engineered specifically for Internet service providers (ISPs) of all sizes, OEMs, and larger enterprises customers.

nCircle, a leading provider of enterprise-class vulnerability and risk management solutions, has announced the general availability of version 6.5 of nCircle IP360. With this industry leading release, IP360 becomes the only vulnerability and risk management solution to offer integrated network line of sight risk analysis, providing an order-of-magnitude improvement in prioritizing vulnerability and risk remediation in large enterprises.

Idera, a leading provider of management and administration solutions for the Microsoft SQL Server and NEC Solutions (America), Inc., a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America announced, a technology partnership that will deliver a high performance managed SQL Server database operations environment.

Packeteer, a provider of WAN Application Optimization, and Tacit Networks, a provider of enterprise-wide branch office IT solutions, have announced a strategic alliance that will enable joint customers to consolidate and centralize e-mail, Web and file servers at corporate data centers while delivering optimal application performance to branch-office users.

Behavior-based security technology, i.e. technology that identifies online threats such as worms, viruses, Trojan horses, keystroke loggers, and phishing sites by their actions and characteristics, is about to become a core component of Symantec's baseline consumer security and enterprise desktop solutions.

A Florida-based provider of business e-mail security solutions is offering companies in the path of Hurricane Rita a free service to protect and preserve e-mail traffic should their servers be affected by the impact of the storm.

CEO Larry Ellison delivered an ambitious 24-month roadmap of priorities for the nearly 35,000 attendees at Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco yesterday afternoon. From open standards and security to industry functionality, business intelligence and automation, Oracle has the scale to invest in meeting customers' most-demanding requirements.

Oracle announced what it calls a new record-breaking TPC-H three terabyte(TB) data warehousing benchmark for Oracle Database 10g Release 2.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 was released yesterday and is now available for download. Fixes are included for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw.

'We commend AOL for taking advantage of our industry-leading anti-spyware solution to protect their users from these pervasive threats,' said Jeff Clarke, CA's Chief Operating Officer, as America Online yesterday launched AOL Spyware Protection 2.0 powered by by eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware technology from CA.

SAP and Siemens today announced that they have expanded their global strategic alliance through the delivery of a flexible, standards-based identity management solution.

In a move to reduce the ongoing cost of managing complex and increasingly heterogeneous enterprise application environments, EDS and Oracle announced plans to provide joint application management, hosting and modernization services. Expanding their long-standing partnership, the two companies will integrate existing core service offerings to help clients simplify, standardize, and modernize applications to adapt to ongoing business changes.

Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Alacris Inc., a global provider of certificate management and identity assurance software products, an acquisition that enhances Microsoft's declared strategy of providing easily administered identity and access management solutions.

'Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters and toward smaller, more targeted attacks directed at Web and client-side applications,' said Arthur Wong, vice president of Symantec Security Response and Managed Security Services, as Symantec yesterday released its eighth volume of the Internet Security Threat Report.

HP and Peregrine Systems have agreed that HP will acquire Peregrine for $26.08 per share, representing an aggregate equity value of $425 million. Upon close of the acquisition, Peregrine, and its leading IT asset and service management software portfolio, will be integrated into the HP OpenView business unit.