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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. 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 Credit Suisse plans virtualization a massive scale With 20,000 servers to manage, financial services powerhouse Credit Suisse had a long list of reasons to consider server virtualization: reducing the number of physical servers to manage, cutting power needs, improving software provisioning time, and deferring expensive datacenter buildouts. But it also needed a clear set of guidelines to determine when to virtualize, plus a clear set of procedures for managing a virtualization initiative. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Trust key to Internet security A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication, from the hardware initialization, through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely. September 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Best of open source in platforms and middleware Open source cut its teeth on operating systems, earned its street cred on Linux and Apache, and never looked back, continuing ever since to extend the kingdom to databases, middleware, and newfangled platforms such as hypervisors for server virtualization. Our Bossies in platforms and middleware recognize a few old faces, and some fairly new ones. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cooler weather brings hotter news Finally, the long, languid, slow news days of summer are behind us. New products are rolling out, people are heading to a myriad of conferences (including, I hope, our own Virtualization Executive Forum, two weeks away), companies are making announcements, and Steve Jobs is handing out refund checks. Yes, it’s a great time to be a tech journalist. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle readies 11g pricing as Linux version debuts Oracle expects to release pricing information for 11g, the latest version of its enterprise database, on Tuesday, according to a company spokesperson. August 13, 12:46 p.m. PDT Changes at MySQL draw fire from community MySQL has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free, sparking a debate about whether the company has strayed from its obligation to its open-source community. August 10, 9:14 a.m. PDT Ingres names new CEO, says appliance servers coming soon Open-source database vendor Ingres appointed a new CEO on Wednesday and said its new appliance servers, which are slightly behind schedule, will be available soon. August 8, 8:45 a.m. PDT EnterpriseDB releases PostgreSQL distribution EnterpriseDB has released a new distribution of the PostgreSQL open source database, hoping to expand the use of the software and compete better with MySQL. August 7, 8:54 a.m. PDT Open source upheaval "I don't use the word 'evil,'" says Mike Evans – though he acknowledges that some of his customers do see proprietary commercial software vendors that way. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT OpenLogic expands its open-source library OpenLogic announced Friday it has expanded its library of open-source software packages as part of its OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6 platform, adding key AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies. July 6, 4:00 p.m. PDT Talend applies SaaS to data integration Talend, an open source data integration software maker, unveiled a new service-based software product Monday, Talend On Demand, a service (SaaS) version of the company's Talend Open Studio product. June 18, 12:05 a.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT MySQL's Mickos: ‘No free beer’ with free software "Free" in the software business does not necessarily mean free of charge, said MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, who reviewed a list of business models for open source at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. May 23, 1:10 p.m. PDT Cleversafe takes a slice out of storage Cleversafe's CEO Christopher Gladwin can't be accused of thinking small. "Our plan is to create a method for the world to store its data in the same way that the Internet is a method for the world to inter-network," is the way he puts it. May 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google to enhance, simplify Search Appliance Google is developing an open-source architecture to improve its Search Appliance's ability to index data in content and document management systems and collaboration platforms. May 18, 3:12 p.m. PDT Silver Peak Systems: Transforming WANs into LANs You wouldn't accuse any segment of the high-tech sector of orthodoxy. But even by tech industry standards, the market for WAN acceleration is a wild ride. Just ask Silver Peak Systems' founder and CTO, David Hughes, who says that in the WAN space, sometimes "no" means "yes," late is better than early, and you have to add to subtract. May 18, 3:01 a.m. PDT Talend: Data integration for the masses! There's no question about it: Business intelligence is the holy grail of most CIOs and IT managers alike. After all, the idea behind BI is great: Pull data from all the nooks and crannies on your enterprise network into one system where it can be cleansed, correlated, and presented to executives for analysis via easy-to-use dashboards. May 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Startups class of '06: Where are they now? In 2006, InfoWorld uncovered 15 startups that emerged after the nuclear winter that followed the dot-com bust with cool, useful technologies. Well, another year has brought a new crop of startup darlings, such as the companies we're profiling each day in May for our Month of Enterprise Startups (MOES) feature. But MOES got us thinking about last year's startups. In the year that has followed, how have these innovators fared? May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT EnterpriseDB upgrade aimed at Oracle EnterpriseDB is releasing an upgrade to its database software next month, hoping to lure customers away from Oracle with the promise of lower license fees and compatibility with applications written for Oracle's database. April 23, 1:00 p.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 Are you an open source user or joiner? In my previous column, I touched on the issue of what constitutes an open-source vendor. Ask Andy Astor that question, and his answer is a shrug. "Honestly," he says, "who cares?" To Astor, there are really two broad categories of companies with respect to their relationship to open-source code. Some are users. Others are joiners. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Improve the quality of enterprise data When I was a young programmer at an investment bank, my desk was next to the department of “data integrity,” a small group with the thankless job of making sure that the databases held accurate records of stock transactions. The bank’s computers could process millions of transactions in seconds, but a mistyped key or a missing value could jam the entire assembly line for data. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Ingres, Wipro team on open source enterprise software Indian outsourcer Wipro is to develop open-source business software and offer system integration services around the open-source database from software vendor Ingres, which will be marketed jointly by the two companies. March 7, 5:34 a.m. PST Ingres cracks champagne on Project Icebreaker Open-source database vendor Ingres is hoping that its newly released Icebreaker database and Linux combination will help it win new customers and enter fresh markets. February 27, 9:49 a.m. PST MySQL, JasperSoft sign joint reselling agreement Open-source database vendor MySQL and business intelligence (BI) software provider JasperSoft on Tuesday announced a joint reselling agreement. February 27, 7:37 a.m. PST Vendors form open-source business alliance Ten leading open-source software vendors have created a nonprofit consortium, dubbed the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), to push the adoption of more open-source technology in the business world. February 14, 8:36 a.m. PST Ingres strikes deal with Satyam Ingres Corp. Monday announced a global sales and marketing alliance with leading Indian consultancy and IT services company Satyam Computer Services Ltd. to attract more customers for its open-source database. February 12, 9:27 a.m. PST Oracle-branded MySQL seems unlikely In October, Oracle sent Red Hat's stock plummeting on the announcement that the database vendor would offer cut-rate support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, under the "Unbreakable Linux" brand. Could Larry Ellison now be planning a repeat with "Unbreakable MySQL"? February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST EnterpriseDB bolsters European presence Open-source database company EnterpriseDB is expanding its sales office in London, part of a move by the company to try to grow its business worldwide. January 26, 7:29 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 Sun undercuts Red Hat on support pricing Sun Microsystems is presenting a challenge to Red Hat with competitively priced support in an update of its Solaris 10 operating system, announced Tuesday. January 16, 3:55 p.m. PST Key Indian IT services organization moving to Linux The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd. (ELCOT), a government-owned organization that delivers IT services to the southern India state of Tamil Nadu, has decided that its projects will be deployed on open-source software, including Linux. January 3, 9:01 a.m. PST MySQL on track with storage engine Open-source database maker MySQL AB will soon release the alpha version of its Falcon storage engine, designed for high-volume Web server environments, a company executive said Wednesday. January 3, 4:33 a.m. PST Open Source: Key projects turn pro Throughout 2006, Linux and open source continued their march toward the mainstream of enterprise software. Perhaps no one event exemplified this trend more than Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss in April. With JBoss’s Java technologies under its wing, Red Hat is no longer merely a Linux vendor; it’s become an open source powerhouse, able to offer its customers a complete application software stack. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 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 Major vendors put open source into turmoil Major software vendors are shaking up the open-source market. Microsoft Corp.'s deal with Novell Inc. and Oracle Corp.'s move to support Red Hat Linux have sent IT investors scurrying to figure out what it all means. November 16, 12:57 p.m. PST Oracle OpenWorld makes a splash It was crazy in San Francisco last week as a rumored 40,000 people swamped Oracle’s OpenWorld conference — the first time I’d ever seen a tech conference have the clout to shut down a whole city block and set up tents in the street. November 3, 3:00 a.m. PST Ingres preps database-Linux package Businesses will soon be able to try out a new product from Ingres that aims to reduce maintenance work by combining the company's open-source database with a version of Linux from rPath. October 31, 9:25 a.m. PST MySQL sees 'invisible hand' at work in open source What's the link between eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, often regarded as the father of modern economics, and the open-source software movement? According to Marten Mickos, the chief executive officer of open-source database company MySQL, it's Smith's concept of an "invisible hand," which guides individuals pursuing their own betterment to achieve goals that also benefit society at large. October 2, 7:51 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Ingres, rPath detail software appliance Ingres intends on Tuesday to provide more details about its upcoming software appliance, a tight coupling of its open-source database with rPath's Linux distribution that is designed to simplify system maintenance. August 15, 5:46 a.m. PDT PalmSource releases open-source code PalmSource has developed an open-source software library designed to help mobile-application developers create file systems based on the SQLite database. August 14, 4:43 a.m. PDT Update: Ingres turns to acquisition to extend global reach Ingres Corp. Tuesday announced the purchase of Thinking Instruments AG, one of its resellers and services providers, to extend its presence in Germany and the Middle East. July 25, 7:45 a.m. PDT Lotus Notes breaks away from Windows A full year ahead of schedule, IBM has brought Lotus Notes to the Linux desktop. A Linux client for Notes wasn't expected until the arrival of "Hannover," the next major release of the Notes platform, in 2007. But Big Blue had a surprise up its sleeve, and last week it announced the availability of a Linux version of the current Notes 7 client. July 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Callisto Project to launch 10 releases What may go unnoticed in next week’s Callisto release, a flurry of open source releases from the Eclipse Foundation, is BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools), a project some consider the future direction of all Eclipse open source endeavors. June 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA adds support for Ingres 2006 database Open-source relational database player Ingres announced Monday that it has signed up middleware company BEA Systems as its first ISV (independent software vendor) partner. June 19, 9:35 a.m. PDT Why Apple snubs its open source geeks Apple extended the courtesy of meeting with me one day after my column on the closing of the OS X x86 kernel source code was published online. To sum up Apple’s objections, they felt I had given a year-old story a fresh coat of paint and sensationalized it for an audience that wasn’t affected by it. Yet no story is more timely, or more broadly relevant, than this one. June 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25 The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward-looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as many of this year’s top 25 CTOs can tell you, technology leaders must also focus on understanding the business goals of the enterprise -- and then craft technology strategies to meet those objectives. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT ActiveGrid speeds Web application development “It’s really hard to build an HTML application that talks to one database, yet IT developers have a huge backlog of requested applications that talk to multiple databases,” says Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid. His company aims to solve that problem, in part by doing away with the traditional three-tiered model of Web application development. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT MySQL patches buffer overflow flaws MySQL AB this week issued a security patch for multiple vulnerabilities in its MySQL open-source database. May 4, 10:48 a.m. PDT New CEO could sharpen Sun's focus Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy’s decision last week to step aside after two decades at the helm of the legendary Silicon Valley company could throw open the doors to rapid change at the company, as new CEO Jonathan Schwartz focuses Sun’s resources on technologies that may pull it out of its prolonged slump. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT NetCustomer offers migration services to Ingres NetCustomer, which provides support services to users of PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards enterprise applications, will offer customers migration services to the Ingres 2006 open-source database, the company announced Monday. April 25, 4:07 a.m. PDT Users: Oracle Linux would be optimal Oracle Corp. customers are intrigued by recent musings from Larry Ellison, the company's chief executive officer, suggesting Oracle might offer its own Linux distribution. Users would welcome the tighter integration a complete Oracle software stack of operating system, database, middleware and applications could provide, they said in interviews this week. April 21, 10:35 a.m. PDT MySQL CEO seeks partnerships with IBM, Microsoft The companies MySQL would most like to have a relationship with are IBM and Microsoft, says Marten Mickos, chief executive officer of the open-source database company. April 20, 2:12 p.m. PDT SAP: U.S. the growth driver SAP AG was able to increase sales in the U.S. for the 14th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth as the world's largest maker of business software continued to sell more products to existing customers and nibble away at the customer base of rival Oracle Corp. April 20, 10:44 a.m. PDT Oracle: Open source brings new customers Oracle is not only looking to buy open-source technology, but sees the software as opening a route to potential future Oracle users. April 19, 11:35 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 French could outlaw open source DRM, peer-to-peer On May 4, the French Senate will debate a copyright bill that is widely expected to have a chilling effect on the development and distribution of open-source software for digital rights management (DRM) or P-to-P (peer-to-peer) file sharing. That's because the bill's provisions include a penalty of up to three years in prison and a fine of €300,000 (US$363,171) for publishing, distributing or promoting software in France that is "manifestly intended" for the unauthorized distribution of copyright works. April 14, 9:55 a.m. PDT MySQL to unveil new transaction engine MySQL is due to unveil a new transaction database engine at its upcoming user conference later this month, according to a company executive. The open-source database vendor will also be showcasing database engines from third parties, Zach Urlocker, vice president of marketing at MySQL, said Thursday. April 6, 1:48 p.m. PDT MySQL, Oracle sign multiyear deal on InnoDB MySQL AB has signed a multiyear agreement with Oracle to renew its licensing of the InnoDB database storage engine, according to a MySQL executive. The move resolves confusion in the market about the likely effect on MySQL of Oracle's purchase last year of the maker of InnoDB, Innobase OY. April 6, 12:39 p.m. PDT Frustration drove Owens Forest Products to open source The IT group at Owens Forest Products went the traditional route of many smaller companies: a custom ERP system using tools such as Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.Net, and Business Objects’ Crystal Reports. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Christian Science Monitor seeks closer technology relationships The Christian Science Monitor for the past nine years has been saddled with an inflexible content management system that makes it difficult to modify the newspaper’s Web site or deliver content to new devices, such as smartphones. That tool is emblematic of what Curt Edge sees as a larger issue at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, which publishes the Monitor in newspaper and online editions. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT MIT makes heterogeneous IT systems work The IT staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has to be prepared to work with just about anything. It manages a delicate balancing act, promoting core IT standards for security and networking while still giving each department the freedom to choose its own technology platforms and applications. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT The move to open source is good for BZ Results Fast-moving technology that works is what BZ Results wants in its IT tools. That’s why CTO Rob Lackey’s policy is to make sure there is at least one open source bid for each project. “Commercial software can’t compete with the open source development effort,” Lackey says. He cites the frequent, fast security updates available for Apache servers as an example of how the open source community delivers faster than traditional providers. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT OSDL to finance open-source software developers The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) Wednesday provided a new opportunity for developers working with open-source technologies to receive funding for their projects. March 29, 11:13 a.m. PST Sony Online subs open-source for Oracle Sony Online Entertainment signed a deal to use database software from EnterpriseDB in a vote of confidence for the open-source company and its biggest customer win to date. March 20, 4:39 a.m. PST Does open source matter? As I said last week, I can't understand why folks want to vilify Oracle for buying up open source companies such as Sleepycat and Innobase. By the same token, I can't really fault those companies for selling out, either. For small software companies, getting bought has always been a viable exit strategy. February 27, 3:00 a.m. PST The new scourge of open source? Oracle's done it again. Not only has it acquired another company, but in the process it has riled up the open source community once more. February 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Speeding retrieval with in-memory data management My first real Java application, back in 1997, was a servlet-based group scheduler. It wasn’t quite the smash hit that Hanson’s “MMMBop” was that summer, but as some of you may recall, it had its charms. February 15, 3:00 a.m. PST MicroStrategy supports open-source databases MicroStrategy has certified the latest version of its business-intelligence software to work with two popular open-source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, it announced on Tuesday. February 14, 7:42 a.m. PST MySQL opens subsidiary in Japan Open-source database company MySQL Wednesday opened a new subsidiary in Japan, according to the company. February 1, 2:06 p.m. PST Homeland Security moves to strengthen open source software It's no secret that the U.S. government, as most businesses are today, is a big consumer of open source. The question is, as more and more critical projects begin to rely on community-contributed code, how can the government be sure that the software it's using meets its own standards for security and reliability? January 16, 3:00 a.m. PST US DHS funds security for open source The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a US$1.24 million three-year grant to Stanford University and software vendors Coverity Inc. and Symantec Corp. The grant will fund daily security audits and analysis of more than 40 open-source projects including Apache, Linux, Mozilla, MySQL and PostgreSQL. January 11, 8:50 a.m. PST MySQL gets U.S. gov't stamp of approval The U.S. General Services Administration gave MySQL's open source database a stamp of approval by awarding a five-year contract that makes it easy for government customers to buy MySQL products, the company said Monday. January 10, 4:43 a.m. PST 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Top technologies of the year Welcome to our first issue of the year. For those of you who took a break, re-entry into the heady universe of work may be a bit discombobulating. Fortunately, last Saturday, the world’s ever-considerate timekeepers saw fit to give us an extra sliver of time -- a leap second-- to prep for the new year. And now, with the pop of the cork (or was that the buzz of a pager?), we’re ready to herald 2006, a potential banner year for the enterprise. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST CIO who brought OpenOffice to Massachusetts resigns The state government official who had been moving Massachusetts away from Microsoft Corp.'s digital document formats has resigned. Peter Quinn, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will quit his position, effective Jan. 9, according to an internal memo obtained by the IDG News Service. December 28, 4:45 a.m. PST Sun adds support for open-source Java database Sun Microsystems is incorporating its open-source Java DB database into the latest version of the Sun Java Enterprise System, it announced Tuesday. The company also announced that a plug-in for Java DB will come with NetBeans IDE 5.0, an upcoming version of its software development environment. December 14, 4:12 a.m. PST MySQL, Business Objects team for bundled offerings Business Objects and MySQL have strengthened their partnership by collaborating on software bundles that combine MySQL's open-source database with business intelligence (BI) software from Business Objects, company representatives said Monday. December 13, 4:07 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 Sybase may offer open-source database in China Sybase is considering how it could make some parts of its database software available under an open-source license to customers and developers in China, a company executive said Wednesday. December 7, 4:20 a.m. PST The coming software revolution If Marc Benioff, CEO and founder of Salesforce.com, is the biggest spokesperson for SaaS (software as a service), then Greg Gianforte, CEO and founder of SaaS CRM competitor RightNow Technologies, is in the avant-garde of that software revolution, adding open source to the war on packaged apps. The difference between the two may offer us a peek into the future of IT infrastructures. December 6, 3:00 a.m. PST The database the open source community won't build A week or so ago I was chatting with a friend about a meeting I had scheduled for the following morning. I said I'd be speaking with a guy whose company markets a commercial database product built around open source software. November 14, 3:00 a.m. PST EnterpriseDB upgrades open-source database EnterpriseDB has released an upgrade to its open-source database that comes with a newer code base and an open-source reporting tool called JasperReports, the company said this week. November 2, 4:51 a.m. PST Product previews Juniper jumps into access control Juniper Networks announced the availability of its Enterprise Infranet Controller, an end-point security and network access control system built on the policy and control engine of its Secure Access SSL VPN products. The heart of the product is the Infranet Controller appliance, which pushes an on-demand host-checking Infranet Agent to each connecting client and makes access policy decisions based on user role and current state of the host system. Noncompliant end points, such as those lacking anti-virus or firewall software, can be steered to a remediation site or security zones on the network. The Infranet Agent, as well as any Juniper firewall updated with ScreenOS 5.3, can handle enforcement. Juniper Infranet Controller 4000 and 6000 appliances, Juniper Networks October 31, 3:00 a.m. PST Open source 2.0: New kids on the block Remember a year or so ago when you could probably name most of the open-source companies in the market? Try doing that now when the number of startups has skyrocketed to several hundred. While this massive growth appears reminiscent of the dot-com boom before the bubble burst, experts in the field stress that the second wave of the open-source revolution, Open Source 2.0 if you like, is unlikely to play out in quite the same way. However, that's not to say there won't be some upsets along the way. October 28, 5:34 a.m. PDT Oracle wins big with its Innobase acquisition To the faithful, Oracle's acquisition of key MySQL partner Innobase is proof of what they've believed all along: MySQL's success is a threat to Oracle's database business and it's only a matter of time before the two companies collide. October 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM, Red Hat to galvanize Linux in emerging markets IBM and Red Hat unwrapped a joint worldwide initiative to try to speed up the development and adoption of Linux-based applications Friday. The companies are placing particular emphasis on emerging markets, like China, India, Russia, and South Korea, according to a Big Blue executive. The deal is very similar to one IBM struck with Red Hat's main Linux competitor, Novell, back in March. September 16, 6:12 a.m. PDT Saturday declared 'Software Freedom Day' Advocates of free and open-source software have designated Saturday as Software Freedom Day and are planning events around the world to educate the public about the benefits and availability of open-source software. September 9, 8:20 a.m. PDT HP now selling MySQL Network Hewlett-Packard (HP) is now reselling support services for MySQL AB's open-source database, an HP spokeswoman has confirmed. 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