A little over a year ago, we ran an interview with AXS-One’s Marie Patterson on email storage and retrieval. Normally, we don’t like to run more than one executive interview from a company with any frequency, but when we had the opportunity to interview AXS-One CEO Bill Lyons, we jumped at the chance. Bill is a true PC industry pioneer. Back in the olden days, when the "big three" were Microsoft, Lotus, and Ashton-Tate (remember dBASE IV?), Bill Lyons was CEO of Ashton-Tate. He also was CEO of Parc Place Systems. Many of you might not have heard of Parc Place, but that was the company form to commercialize SmallTalk, a technology out of XEROX Parc that’s influenced personal computers in so many different ways. So, when we had the chance to sit Bill down and pick his brain, we took it. Here, then, is our interview with Bill Lyons.

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IBM has patched four vulnerabilities in its Notes and Domino email software, plugging holes that could be used to access information or infect systems with malicious code. Collectively ranked as "moderately critical" by Danish bug tracker Secunia, the four vulnerabilities involve Notes’ IMAP service; its scripting language (LotusScript); the Domino server’s command console; and how both Notes and Domino map memory in Windows when they’re used in a shared environment such as Citrix.

IBM is pushing its Jazz developer collaboration technology as a research tool and has given money to some universities that are researching how to break down cultural and geographic barriers when developing software. Eric Gamma, a lead architect on Jazz, announced the grants Oct. 24 at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications conference here.

After years of falling behind IBM and other companies in the race to build the world’s fastest supercomputers, NEC is looking to gain back some momentum with a new machine that offers 839 trillion calculations per second.

At the company’s Tokyo headquarters, NEC executives unveiled the SX-9, a supercomputer that offers a peak performance of up to 839 teraflops, according to a Oct. 25 statement from the company. This supercomputer is built using a newly developed microprocessor that offers up to 102.4 gigaflops or 102.4 billion floating point operations per second on a single core.

The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that would extend a moratorium on Internet access taxes for seven years, giving supporters hope that an extension will be signed into law before the current moratorium expires Nov. 1. The Senate late Thursday passed the seven-year extension on a voice vote. The moratorium would extend the ban on Internet-only taxes, such as access and "bit" taxes on information as it travels through a taxing jurisdiction. The Senate passed an amended version of a House of Representatives bill, the awkwardly named Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendments Act.

IBM recently has spun out a free, standalone suite of productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes. At about the same time, Google announced plans to add a presentation application to Google Docs, its hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) suite of collaboration and communications tools.

In addition to Symphony, IBM unveiled Lotus Notes as a hosted service meant for the small- to midsize business market. Microsoft, meanwhile, is responding to the demand for Web-based apps by expanding its Web-based offerings. In late September, Microsoft announced Office Live Workspace, now in beta testing and open to anyone who registers. This lets users save more than 1,000 Office documents to one place and access them through the Web. It also allows them to share them with others in a password-protected, invitation-only online workspace.

While still fighting in the courts and fresh from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, The SCO Group could soon be selling its steadily-declining Unix business.

In a filing Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, the Lindon, Utah-based company said it has received a "potential" $36 million offer for its Unix business from JGD Management, an umbrella business of New York-based investment firm York Capital Management. The filing has been posted on the Groklaw.com Web site, which has been tracking the legal records of the ongoing lawsuits between SCO, IBM, Novell, and others. In it, SCO reports that the offer includes money for its Unix business, litigation claims, and for litigation expenses.

The bid is subject to approval by the bankruptcy court, according to the filing, and competitive bids could still be accepted from other potential buyers.

If you’re a convicted identity thief, you’ve got about a 50 percent chance of avoiding jail time. That’s one of the findings of a new study of closed US Secret Service case files, released by Utica College’s Center for Identity Management and Information Protection. This is the first time researchers have been allowed to sift through the Secret Service’s data. The study’s authors based their findings on an analysis of 500 closed Secret Service cases.

A vastly powerful new supercomputer is on the loose. With more than a million CPUs and a petabyte of RAM, it completely dwarfs its next-largest competitor, IBM’s BlueGene/L, which contains a paltry 128,000 processing cores and 32 terabytes of memory. And the new supercomputer is growing larger every day.

There’s just one problem. This powerhouse isn’t run by a university, or IBM, or a government agency. It’s the Storm Worm botnet, capable of sending staggering amounts of spam and viruses around the globe, and launching devastating attacks against security researchers or anyone else who might oppose it.

Follow along step-by-step as you learn how to create an NSF-based composite application in IBM Lotus Notes V8 using both NSF and Eclipse components. You can reference these procedures when creating your own composite applications.