http://www.infoworld.com InfoWorld - Information Technology News, Computer Networking & Security http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/logo;pos=rssfeed_infologo;sz=214x54;ord=? http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/logo;pos=rssfeed_infologo;sz=214x54;ord=? http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Govts-must-intervene-to-end-IP-address-shortage_1.html Businesses alone are not doing enough to avert an impending shortage of Internet Protocol addresses, and governments must work with them to secure the future of the Internet economy, according to a report published Thursday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Thu, 15 May 2008 12:52:25 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Govts-must-intervene-to-end-IP-address-shortage_1.html 2008-05-15T12:52:25Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/12/20FE-web-app-development_1.html Since its inception, the Web has been synonymous with the browser. Pundits hailed NCSA Mosaic as "the killer app of the Internet" in 1993, and today's browsers share an unbroken lineage from that humble beginning. Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/12/20FE-web-app-development_1.html 2008-05-12T10:00:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Sun-exec-ponders-OpenSolaris-Linux_1.html Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux. Fri, 09 May 2008 17:53:02 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Sun-exec-ponders-OpenSolaris-Linux_1.html 2008-05-09T17:53:02Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/05/Sun-cites-open-source-tribulations_1.html Sun Microsystems officials on Monday acknowledged issues the company has had to deal with in offering products such as the OpenSolaris OS and Java via an open source business model. Mon, 05 May 2008 20:30:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/05/Sun-cites-open-source-tribulations_1.html 2008-05-05T20:30:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/01/bea-oracle_1.html BEA Systems employees gathered at a Silicon Valley restaurant Wednesday for what was loosely termed a "wake" to recognize that the company no longer exists as an independent, publicly owned company but has become part of Oracle. Thu, 01 May 2008 21:25:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/01/bea-oracle_1.html 2008-05-01T21:25:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/30/SpringSource-launches-Java-application-server_1.html SpringSource, maker of the Spring Framework for Java development, will announce a new application server on Wednesday that it claims will "liberate" Java users from "antiquated legacy Java technologies." Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:29:27 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/30/SpringSource-launches-Java-application-server_1.html 2008-04-30T16:29:27Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/22/17FE-green-15-2008-greengrid_1.html About a year and a half ago, executives at several companies were bemoaning the high energy costs and the difficulty of getting enough energy electricity to their datacenters. It's not an uncommon concern among IT execs, but this group did more than kvetch. They banded together and sought other companies to join them. In February 2007, the Green Grid was born, and in less than a year grew to more than 100 members. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/22/17FE-green-15-2008-greengrid_1.html 2008-04-22T10:00:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/17/Will-MySQL-keep-lighting-up-LAMP_1.html For an executive who had just had his company bought for a cool billion a few months ago and was on the eve of announcing a major update to his business' flagship database program, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, now Sun Microsystems' senior vice president for databases, didn't look comfortable. Mickos had come to the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the University of Texas Super Computing Center to explain that MySQL was not about to abandon Linux. His audience, the movers and shakers of Linux business and development circles, were not overly impressed. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:40:01 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/17/Will-MySQL-keep-lighting-up-LAMP_1.html 2008-04-17T21:40:01Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/17/MySQL-reserves-features-for-paying-customers_1.html Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying users of its namesake database. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:06:49 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/17/MySQL-reserves-features-for-paying-customers_1.html 2008-04-17T18:06:49Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/16/Lawmakers-look-to-increase-nanotech-safety-research_1.html The U.S. government needs to increase funding for research about the health, safety, and environmental effects of nanotechnology because much of the impact is still unknown, some lawmakers said Wednesday. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:55:18 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/16/Lawmakers-look-to-increase-nanotech-safety-research_1.html 2008-04-16T17:55:18Z