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SCO's McBride: We're not dead yet If the corporate Grim Reaper is truly knocking on the door of The SCO Group, no one apparently told the company's CEO and president, Darl C. McBride. SCO gets reprieve from Nasdaq The Nasdaq stock exchange has given The SCO Group a little more time to get its financial house in order. September 28, 12:18 p.m. PDT Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.  September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT With bankruptcy, SCO now facing Nasdaq delisting Following its bankruptcy filing, The SCO Group may be booted off of the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week, the Unix vendor said Wednesday. September 19, 3:15 p.m. PDT Update: SCO seeks bankruptcy protection With its cash reserves running out, the SCO Group Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection. September 14, 2:11 p.m. PDT Sun accommodating Linux in Solaris With an incremental update to its Solaris 10 OS, Sun is extending the platform's virtualization capabilities to accommodate Linux and Solaris on the same computer. September 10, 9:05 p.m. PDT Sun: Coders key to Solaris' rise Sun has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to reaching that goal, Sun needs to reach out more to developers and endeavor to overcome some long-held prejudices against the OS. August 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Next for IBM and Sun: Solaris on z mainframes As IBM and Sun laid out a new agreement to have more IBM x86 servers and blades run on Solaris, the two companies were already looking ahead to another partnership, which could see IBM mainframes support the Sun operating system. August 16, 1:40 p.m. PDT Sun to donate Cluster code to OpenSolaris community Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will begin donating its Solaris clustering code to the open-source community, the latest move in the company's ongoing strategy to eventually make all of its software freely available. June 27, 5:04 a.m. PDT A developer's-eye view of Leopard, part IV With its transitions from Mac OS to OS X, PowerPC to Intel, and Panther to Tiger under its belt, Apple is all about moving on. Now it’s the developers’ turn to move on. If you haven’t done it yet, it’s time to bid farewell to C and Carbon, and to embrace Objective-C and Cocoa for your GUI applications. It’s time to count on Universal Binaries, not Rosetta (Apple’s PowerPC translator for Intel Macs), to get your software out to the whole Mac market, which will soon be dominated by 64-bit Intel Macs. If you haven’t yet broken the habits of jamming new icons into the menu bar and turning every convenience utility into a CPU-sapping background process with its own always-on-top window, you should get to know Dashcode. If your application terminates because it can’t locate a critical file, learn the ways of Time Machine. And if, when you think of Web applications, your mind automatically zeroes in on Java, you might look at Ruby on Rails as a far simpler, much lighter-weight open source alternative that’s remarkably well appointed. June 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Simon Crosby XenSource is not only the leader of the open source Xen project, but also the maker of a proprietary server virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor. The community side of the house, led by founder and Xen Project Lead Ian Pratt, strives to be completely supportive of everyone in the Xen community, even those who may compete with XenSource's commercial offerings. June 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun ZFS breaks all the rules It’s somewhat surprising that in the past five years, file systems haven’t changed much on any platform. There are dozens of file systems available for UNIX-like operating systems -- ext3, XFS, UFS, and ReiserFS for example -- and Microsoft’s ubiquitous NTFS, but since the journaling revolution, there’s been a dearth of innovation in mainstream file systems, until now. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Is outsourcing getting too expensive? Welcome back from your extended Memorial Day weekend. I mention Memorial Day because, for U.S. citizens, Monday was a patriotic occasion -- a day to honor those who gave their lives for their country. But it seems many of InfoWorld's readers are having their patriotism tested by a topic that hits close to home: offshoring. Based on your e-mails, as well as comments to stories on InfoWorld.com, stateside readers are still fuming over U.S. legislators' unwillingness to do anything about the continued loss of IT jobs to overseas contractors. Many laid-off IT pros simply can't find work at a salary level comparable to what they made at previous jobs, and they’re angry about it. And the immigration reform bill staggering its way through Congress -- with a mixed bag of regulations, including increasing H-1B visas to 115,000 per year -- is unlikely to please domestic jobseekers. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Closing a chapter of open source By now you will have heard the news: InfoWorld has closed down its print edition and moved to a Web-only model. Over the coming weeks and months, InfoWorld will continue to evolve to take better advantage of the online medium. You can expect many changes -- some subtle, others less so. For example, this will be the last edition of Open Enterprise. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Mr. Gates, tear down this wall IBM's latest filing in the SCO case looks particularly damning; it may finally be curtains for SCO. But even if the judge dismisses the suit tomorrow, Linux customers won't be able to rest easy. As Bruce Perens reminds us, the Microsoft/Novell partnership has brought a host of new intellectual property issues to bear. And so, the cold war between Microsoft and open source software lumbers on into another year. March 26, 3:00 a.m. PST At 25, Sun struggles to reinvent itself Developers by the thousands flocked to the International Convention Center in Hyderabad, India last week as Sun Microsystems kicked off the second leg of its world-spanning series of Tech Days conferences. The theme of the event was "shape your future" -- and indeed, no slogan could be more appropriate for Sun, its developers, and its partners. February 26, 3:05 a.m. PST Interview: Bechtolsheim hails open-source moves Andreas, or simply, Andy, Bechtolsheim holds the distinction of having employee badge #1 among the thousands of people who have worked at Sun Microsystems in its 25 years of existence. Perhaps best known as the inventor of the Stanford University Network (SUN) workstation, he is among the four founders of the company, along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy. Although he left the company in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet startup, he returned to Sun in 2004 via the company's Kealia acquisition. Bechtolsheim also was a vice president at Cisco Systems while away from Sun. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill recently spoke with Bechtolsheim about Sun's past and present situation, with Bechtolsheim chiming in on about topics including open source and the Intel and SPARC chip architectures. February 26, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun shines on silver anniversary Oct. 18, 2000, might go unnoticed in the long history of Sun Microsystems, but it marked a critical moment in the history of a company that celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. February 26, 3:00 a.m. PST HP unveils new Integrity servers, Unix OS Hewlett-Packard is introducing a long-awaited upgrade to its Unix operating system and launching new, affordable Integrity servers in a direct challenge to rival products from IBM and Sun Microsystems. February 15, 4:39 a.m. PST Ditching AMD is just business for Schwartz If nothing else, Intel’s reversal of AMD’s exclusive contract to supply CPUs to Sun Microsystems shows just how far some CEOs are willing to go on the first date. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Foundation proves Linux is big business What do you get if you cross an open source development consortium with an organization that promotes free standards? Answer: You get a Linux advocacy group. Or so it seems. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST HP tightens security in HP-UX Hewlett-Packard is enhancing security features on the HP-UX operating system for its Integrity line of servers amid growing customer concern about recent network security breaches. December 18, 4:12 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Platforms Novell’s Suse Linux 10 was the landmark operating system launch of the year, giving us a bigger and badder Linux server and a startlingly smooth Linux desktop. We also got good looks at Microsoft Vista and Windows Longhorn betas, and at BEA’s venerable WebLogic 9.1. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST What does 2007 hold for open source? I couldn't have an easier time playing fortune-teller this year. While some segments of the IT market might see the future as a wide-open plain, for the open source community, 2007 is shaping up to be a year for settling unfinished business. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun Solaris getting security, virtualization boosts Sun Microsystems is sprucing up its Solaris 10 operating system with security and virtualization improvements. December 11, 3:10 p.m. PST Microvell’s big chill Microsoft has intentionally rendered unsafe all but one path to heterogeneity, that being the use of Novell’s SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) in networks with Windows. By immunizing Novell against future intellectual property actions, Microsoft tacitly notified other players in commercialized open source that Microsoft sets the rules for Windows interoperability from now on. November 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Perens: GPL v3 is the answer Let the spin control begin. In an open letter issued last week, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian attempted to distance his company from Microsoft's claims that open source software, including the Linux kernel, infringes on Microsoft intellectual property. November 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun's CEO cites OS as differentiator SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Oracle's and Microsoft's moves to accommodate Linux show how important it is to have an operating system, Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Thursday, promoting Sun's own Solaris OS. November 3, 5:00 a.m. PST Graphic eye for the open source guy There's no shortage of open source programmers out there. According to a recent study of 5,000 developers by the research firm IDC, fully 71 percent said they used open source software, and half reported that use of open source was increasing within their organizations. September 25, 3:00 a.m. PDT State: We have evidence to charge HP execs A day after Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) chairman Patricia Dunn promised to step down for her role in a spy scandal, the state of California is continuing to investigate the actions of HP officials and the private investigators they used. September 13, 4:14 p.m. PDT Sun is winning in the server market Inexplicably, we’ve gotten through much of 2006 without Linux completely kicking Unix out of the market. Analysts and Linux faithful are at a loss to explain how Sun Microsystems’ server revenue climbed almost 14 percent since the second quarter last year, pushing Sun ahead of Dell in the rankings. Gartner pegs Sun’s Unix server market share at 56.9 percent. September 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source is entangled in .Net Python developers had reason to celebrate last week, with the release of IronPython 1.0, a full implementation of the Python language for Microsoft's CLR (Common Language Runtime). With IronPython, Python programs can run as first-class managed code on the .Net platform. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source needs a profit motive As Eric S. Raymond points out in his landmark work, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the most powerful motive for open source developers is the need to “scratch their own itch.” They begin writing software to address their unique needs. As they meet other like-minded developers, they begin to pool their efforts, forming communities. But itch-scratching only tells part of the story. The reality is that, in many cases, itch-scratching alone simply doesn’t work. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Linux will get buried I’ve kept a practically subterranean profile since Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference a few weeks ago. I have so many venues at which to serve the many pots of content I’ve got bubbling upstairs that spreading it evenly and avoiding redundancy is the greatest challenge. The portion I’ll serve, in this space, is part of the sharpening outline of the shape that professional, commercial, and enterprise computing will assume by the end of the decade. August 29, 3:00 p.m. PDT Sun changes CIOs Sun Microsystems appointed its chief information officer (CIO) on Monday to take on a new role as a leader in the company's government sales unit. July 31, 5:44 p.m. PDT Sun: Restructuring to blame for loss Sun Microsystems Inc. posted a loss of $301 million for the fourth quarter, blaming restructuring costs from a tumultuous period of layoffs and plant closings, the company announced Tuesday. July 25, 4:05 p.m. PDT Sun CTO: Incremental open-sourcing of Java is the way Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps, with some pieces available by next June -- but not the entire platform, Robert Brewin, co-CTO of Sun Microsystems' software group, said Monday afternoon. July 17, 5:59 p.m. PDT Solaris Containers fill servers to the limit Sun Microsystems first added virtualization features to its proprietary Unix OS with Solaris Domains, a technology that was found only on expensive, heavyweight Sun hardware such as the E10000. That’s much too large a platform for most installations, however. With Solaris Containers, Sun has brought similar functionality to the mainstream. Containers run on Solaris 10 in either the Sparc or x86 flavors and, combined with the introduction of the multicore Sun Sparc T1 processor, have breathed new life into Sun’s virtualization strategy. July 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Wall Street Beat: Novell hits rough waters Open-source software offers one of the more exciting opportunities for users, IT investors and entrepreneurs, but Novell can't seem to capitalize on these trends. June 1, 2:05 p.m. PDT Sun to lay off up to 5,000 and sell campuses Sun Microsystems's will lay off between 4,000 and 5,000 staff in the next six month under a board-approved plan to return to profitability that, the company said Wednesday. May 31, 3:53 p.m. PDT HP hops on board virtualization craze Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is readying the next version of its Unix operating system with new features designed to automate workload movement in virtual environments, the company said Thursday. May 25, 10:15 a.m. PDT Sun shakes up executives, server groups In one of the first executive shakeups at Sun Microsystems Inc. since Jonathan Schwartz stepped in as Chief Executive Officer last month, the company on Monday shuffled its server and storage heads and consolidated its server businesses. May 15, 6:23 p.m. PDT Fabric7 promises high-end servers at low cost Server virtualization technologies are getting monstrous amounts of buzz because they encourage cost savings, permit greater deployment flexibility, and increase utilization rates. Today, most virtualization technologies focus on software implementations, but a fledgling server vendor called Fabric7 is taking a different, hardware-based approach. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sun Solaris 10 to integrate ZFS and PostgreSQL Sun announced a June release of the solaris 10 operating system that will incorporate ZFS 1.0, Sun’s new 128-bit file system, and the open source PostgreSQL database. ZFS automatically detects and corrects data corruption and eliminates the need for a volume manager. PostgreSQL will help leverage Solaris’ predictive self-healing, OS containers, and DTrace (dynamic tracing) technologies. Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Key Java exec returns to run Sun's software group Rich Green is returning to his former employer Sun Microsystems Inc. to head up the company's software group. His return, following a two-year stint at enterprise software vendor Cassatt, will be announced Tuesday at the company's Network Computing product launch in Washington, a Sun spokesman confirmed on Monday. May 1, 5:35 p.m. PDT Sun to update Solaris with ZFS, Apple may follow Sun Microsystems is set to unveil Tuesday an update to its Solaris 10 operating system that includes its next-generation Zettabyte file system (ZFS) and extends self-healing capabilities for its systems based on Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors. May 1, 1:43 p.m. PDT Sun's 1.8GHz UltraSparc delayed to next quarter Sun Microsystems is delaying the launch of a faster version of its UltraSparc IV+ processor until sometime in the next quarter, a top company executive said Thursday. April 20, 4:15 a.m. PDT Open source goes big time with Red Hat-JBoss Deal Red Hat’s surprise announcement that it’s acquiring JBoss could upend accepted wisdom about both the size and function of open source software companies. Still, some customers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the deal. April 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source demands new IT buying strategies There are no two ways about it: open source is everywhere. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a single IT shop today that doesn’t take advantage of open source software, be it Linux, MySQL, Perl, or the Snort networking tool. And everywhere you look, top-tier vendors such as IBM, Novell, Oracle, and Sun are investing heavily in open source projects and community-based development. Even Microsoft is getting in on the game. But despite widespread and growing acceptance, making the case for open source in mission-critical enterprise IT environments isn’t always easy. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun's McNealy to HP's Hurd: Let's get together on Unix Sun Chairman/CEO Scott McNealy, in an email to Hewlett-Packard CEO/President Mark Hurd on Wednesday, is proposing convergence of HP's HP-UX Unix OS with Sun's Solaris 10 Unix OS. March 1, 11:49 a.m. PST In Brief: IBM readies SOA packages IBM at its PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas later this month plans to help integrators and ISVs build SOAs based on the company's WebSphere platform. March 1, 5:35 a.m. PST IBM subpoenas Microsoft, Sun, and HP in SCO case The long-running legal battle between The SCO Group and IBM over source code ownership could uncover some interesting relationships, after IBM requested this week that Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and BayStar Capital turn over documents relating to their communications with SCO. February 23, 4:26 a.m. PST OSBC: Sun seeks to woo HP to Solaris Sun Microsystems is trying to persuade Hewlett-Packard to move its HP-UX Unix customers over to Sun's Solaris, Sun President/COO Jonathan Schwartz said at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. February 14, 1:25 p.m. PST Developers put OpenSolaris on PowerPC Developers working on the OpenSolaris project have taken a step closer to bringing their Unix operating system to the PowerPC processor used by Apple Computer's Macintosh computers. On Sunday, developers announced that they had built the first OpenSolaris kernel for PowerPC to the Blastware.org Web site. January 10, 4:04 a.m. PST Operating systems vendors prep for next-gen hardware IT organizations usually stay loyal to the OS choices they make, but every once in a while, vendors and projects yield a bumper crop of OSes so compelling that the strength of ties binding IT to their chosen operating systems are tested. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Forrester index finds US tech sector healthy for now The U.S. technology industry has recovered from a recession of 2001 and 2002 and is about as healthy as it's been in three years, according to a new tech sector economic index released Monday. December 12, 9:49 a.m. PST Scaling your applications to 64-bit computing At Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in April 2005, Bill Gates predicted that 64-bit hardware, operating systems, and software would “transform the way we work and play.” Systems using 64-bit processors would be mainstream by the end of 2006, he said, and 64-bit computing at the server level would happen more quickly than any other platform changeover in the past. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Is it time to scrap your Big Iron? See correction at end of article November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Sony discovers its roots, Grokster gets the boot In yet another twist to its suit against IBM, the SCO Group detailed 217 alleged violations of its proprietary UNIX code -- in a sealed document only the judge can read. I hear the new evidence reveals the name of the insider who leaked the code: Lewis “Sco-oter” Libby. Remember, you read it here first. November 11, 3:00 a.m. PST HP brings Unix to blades with Itanium Hewlett-Packard is expected on Tuesday to unveil its first blade server based on Intel's Itanium 2 processor, allowing customers to run HP-UX on one of the company's blade servers for the first time. November 1, 4:30 a.m. PST Sun's Java middleware to support Windows, HP-UX Sun Microsystems made a flurry of announcements centered around its Solaris 10 operating system Wednesday. The news included the release of a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES) subscription-based enterprise middleware, which will now support additional non-Sun operating systems. October 26, 9:13 a.m. PDT Startups vie to make Linux more attractive with bundled offerings Integrating open source applications is a task daunting enough to lead some companies toward proprietary products. To that end, several startups this week revealed plans to offer prebuilt, certified solutions so customers have fewer integration migraines. August 3, 6:00 a.m. PDT Novell issues strong answer, counterclaims to SCO suit Novell fired back strongly against an amended complaint filed by The SCO Group in its slander of title lawsuit against Novell, rejecting SCO's claims that it holds the copyright on Unix and demanding a jury trial. Novell also noted in a filing late Friday that SCO may be rapidly exhausting its funds. August 1, 9:08 a.m. PDT DTrace and Predictive Self-Healing herald Sun’s future “When I first came to Sun Microsystems in 1996, I came because I wanted to do OS development,” says Solaris developer Bryan Cantrill, adding that at that time most other OS vendors had already given up the race to Microsoft. “There was only one vendor whose Windows NT strategy was to beat NT, and that was Sun.” August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Groklaw publishes SCO execs' e-mails on Linux patents The fur is flying between The SCO Group and online legal Web site Groklaw with both sides late this week making public key SCO internal communications dating back several years. The messages throw more light on SCO's ongoing litigation, which alleges that the Linux open-source operating system contains elements of its intellectual property. July 15, 8:38 a.m. PDT Open source on Windows -- an unholy alliance? I have a confession to make. Sometimes, when I’m trying out an unfamiliar open source component, I cheat. Even if the software I’m working on will deploy to Linux, I’ll sometimes develop it on Windows first. July 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT Unix equals open source, period It's hard to think of a less likely proponent of open source than the SCO Group. For years, SCO has waged war on Linux and the community that supports it, dragging companies such as IBM and Novell into a seemingly never-ending lawsuit over allegations that the Linux kernel improperly incorporates SCO intellectual property. July 4, 5:00 a.m. PDT Judge denies Novell's second request to stop SCO suit See correction below June 28, 11:01 a.m. PDT Update: EMC, Sun make nice with Solaris support Sun Microsystems and EMC, sometime bitter rivals in the storage arena, are collaborating to make life simpler for customers running EMC software on Sun's Solaris 10 operating system, executives from the two companies confirmed Friday. June 27, 4:30 a.m. PDT SCO begins shipping OpenServer 6 The SCO Group is in the headlines more often for its legal battles than its products these days, but on Wednesday the software maker wrapped up three years of development work and began shipping a major update of its Unix operating system, SCO OpenServer 6. June 22, 3:28 p.m. PDT Google's Summer of Code heats up What would a business gain by contributing to open source? If you thought it was hard to gauge the return on investment of hardware or software purchases, try to get your head around the open source question. Whether you're contributing capital or human resources, it can be difficult to justify an endeavor that, truth be told, could ultimately benefit your competitors as much as your own company. June 13, 5:00 a.m. PDT Quest Software buys Vintela for cross-platform management Quest Software, which makes database and applications management software, has agreed to acquire privately held Vintela for approximately $56.5 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday. June 1, 5:14 a.m. PDT HP makes strides with laptop Linux I've said before that hardware manufacturers in general, and notebook vendors in particular, need to do more to get Linux running on their products. Now it seems at least one major notebook maker will do just that. May 23, 5:00 a.m. PDT Fujitsu upgrades PrimePower line Fujitsu Computer Systems is now shipping a faster version of its Sparc64 V processor with certain models of its PrimePower Unix servers. May 17, 5:43 a.m. PDT Microsoft and the 24-hour Linux phenomenon Recently I had the opportunity to meet with Jim Allchin, Microsoft's group vice president in charge of platforms, to talk about the future of Windows. As it turned out, however, what he has to say about Linux is equally interesting. April 25, 5:00 a.m. PDT Linux Can’t Kill Windows You can quit proclaiming Linux the Windows killer. April 13, 5:00 a.m. PDT Who should maintain open source projects? When making procurement decisions, it often all comes down to whom you trust. If you're buying a copier or a forklift, a strong brand name can give you confidence in your purchase. The same is true for big-name commercial software. But when it comes to open source, things aren't that simple. April 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Friendster scales the network with open source Who says open source can’t measure up to commercial software for mission-critical applications? Far from being a mere quick fix or low-cost alternative, open source software is helping real-world companies solve their most pressing IT problems. April 4, 6:00 a.m. PDT Novell plans small business Linux product SALT LAKE CITY - Novell on Monday announced plans to release new software based on its Suse Linux operating system that is designed to make it easier for small businesses to move to Linux. Called Linux Small Business Suite 9, the product will ship on March 31, according to Novell. March 21, 3:44 p.m. PST What's so bad about the GPL? Companies that modify open source software spend a lot of time debating how best to circumnavigate the difficulties of open source licenses, most notably the GNU GPL (General Public License). I have to question whether that's always time well spent. March 11, 3:00 p.m. PST Too many open source licenses? Open source licensing gives you the freedom to deploy software for whatever purpose you want, even to tinker with its internals or to build complex systems with components from different developers. That's great for pilot projects and research, but when it comes to enterprisewide deployment, those same licenses can become a hindrance. March 4, 3:00 p.m. PST No accounting for taste I love it when Cringesters send fan mail. Over the years I’ve gotten recipes, flu cures, reams of advice, and offers of companionship from residents of women’s correctional institutes. But I recently got the best compliment from a reader who wrote, “Cringely is like the trash magazines at the checkout counter of the supermarket. What a waste of space in an otherwise hi-class [sic] weekly.” It’s been my lifelong dream to write for Weekly World News. Mom would have been proud. February 18, 3:00 p.m. PST Sun starts selling Fujitsu servers Sun Microsystems has quietly begun selling Fujtsu's PrimePower line of Unix servers, a first step in a plan to unify the two companies' Sparc-based product lines by 2006. February 17, 6:30 p.m. PST Trading in Exchange comes at a price Usually, I stay away from operating system zealotry. Bring up one OS over another and suddenly you're surrounded by eerily familiar extremist rhetoric. To those of us in the day-to-day IT trenches, the question has never been about the operating system but what you can run on that operating system. That's where Microsoft has always had an edge. February 11, 3:00 p.m. PST Update: IBM Q4 earnings pass $3 billion IBM reported fourth-quarter financial results on Tuesday that Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano called the company's strongest ever, with earnings passing $3 billion for the first time. January 18, 3:33 p.m. PST McNealy: Sun still strong on Oracle SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite Oracle’s strategic push for Linux- and Intel-based deployments, Sun Microsystems retains its position as the leading platform for Oracle, Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy said Wednesday at the Oracle OpenWorld conference here. December 8, 3:05 p.m. PST Unix lawsuit agreement raises questions for SCO The SCO Group may have a more difficult time making its case that Linux includes illegal source code than previously thought, according to documents published recently on the Groklaw.net Web site. Earlier this week the site published for the first time a 10-year-old lawsuit settlement agreement that grants developers the right to redistribute much of the Unix source code that SCO claims to own and which may ultimately strengthen IBM's defense in a lawsuit between the two companies. December 1, 3:56 p.m. PST Sun to launch next version of Solaris on Nov. 15 Sun Microsystems Inc. will formally launch the next major release of its flagship Solaris operating system at a press event Nov. 15 at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, company officials confirmed Friday. The launch will be part of Sun's quarterly Network Computing product announcement, which is expected to include new product offerings from a variety of Sun's product groups. October 29, 4:11 p.m. PDT Update: IBM posts broad Q3 revenue growth IBM Corp. posted quarterly results on Monday showing 9 percent revenue growth from last year and slight earnings growth, despite a $320 million charge it took during the quarter to settle some claims in a lawsuit over its pension plan. October 18, 5:45 p.m. PDT Sun releases JDS for Solaris Sun Microsystems Inc. last week quietly released a version of its Java Desktop System (JDS) software based on the Solaris x86 operating system, a move the company is calling the first step in a long-term strategy to unify the user interface for Sun's Linux and Solaris products, Sun officials said Thursday. October 14, 5:25 p.m. PDT SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' See correction below October 12, 4:55 a.m. PDT Update: Sun, Microsoft to detail interoperability in October Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. next month plan to provide more details on work they are doing to make their products interoperable, a Sun executive said Monday. September 14, 4:26 a.m. PDT Linux: Rebel with a clue "But you're the InfoWorld Microsoft guy. Why are you at LinuxWorld?" August 13, 3:00 p.m. PDT > Platforms > Operating systems |
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