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The article reports on the new product offering of Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), which consists of three desktop models for its HP Compaq Business PC product line. The two models offers the Core 2 Duo chip of Intel Corp., while the other one is supported by the new Athlon 64 X2 processors of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HP has increased its focus on security and manageability and two major concerns for senior-level information technology managers. The HP Openview Configuration Management Agent is preinstalled to track and update software.

Reports on the coming-out party of Cavium Networks Inc. for its Octeon processor in California. Control with licensing of 64-bit MIPS instruction set; Number of customers; Network processors; Security standards.

Presents updates on the computer industry as of November 17, 2003. Information on the 2003 Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, California; Features of the Longhorn software; Importance of reports about computer crashes and glitches for the development of software at Microsoft; Use of Denial of Service attacks on anti-spammer Web sites.

A new infrastructure from BEA Systems Inc., bolstered by a series of partnerships with security vendors, promises to provide a layer of security across an organization's software installations. WES (WebLogic Enterprise Security), introduced last week, is a cross-enterprise application security infrastructure that provides security services to applications — authentication, authorization and auditing, for example — through native integrations, plug-ins and partnerships with security vendors, according to officials of the San Jose, California, company.