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GPL lawsuit may be settled out of court Monsoon Multimedia and the Software Freedom Law Center are discussing a settlement regarding Monsoon's open-source licensing violation, but a deal isn't certain. 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 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 Purdue pursues long-term cost savings Like other adopters of server virtualization, Purdue University was concerned that its datacenter would hit the wall, exceeding physical space, power, and cooling limits. The use of EMC VMware let it combine 140 physical servers into three Hewlett-Packard DL-585 servers, a 40:1 compression ratio, says Mike Rubesch, director of IT infrastructure systems. "It helps postpone the inevitable," he adds. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Intel project aims to boost power efficiency in Linux Intel plans to announce an open-source project called LessWatts.org, which aims to improve the power efficiency of the Linux operating system and applications. September 20, 11:56 a.m. PDT Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk. September 18, 10:42 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 Sweden's OOXML vote declared invalid The Swedish Standards Institute has declared its recent vote in favor of Microsoft's Office Open XML format invalid. It means that Sweden will probably abstain from an important upcoming international vote on whether to make the format a standard. August 31, 9:47 a.m. PDT Open source court ruling impacts debated A recent federal court ruling pertaining to open-source software in model railroads could derail enforcement of open-source licenses altogether, according to Mark Radcliffe, general counsel for the Open Source Initiative. August 28, 2:23 p.m. PDT Ex-ECMA chief expects Open XML approval by March With ISO's Sept. 2 voting deadline looming, the recently retired secretary general of ECMA International defended Microsoft's Office Open XML document format against fierce technical criticism. August 28, 1:42 p.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 Little progress in states' ODF considerations The debate over use of the open document format among U.S. states appears to have hit a wall as experts representing both sides of the issue offered few new insights into the subject at a meeting of the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL). August 7, 2:39 p.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 Linux kernel maintainer allays fears about forking Making separate but critical points about the path of the Linux kernel, the maintainer of the kernel on Monday stressed there is no need to worry about forking and not to expect a move to the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3. August 7, 5:00 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 Sun looks to steal Linux thunder with Project Indiana Looking to steal thunder from the Linux juggernaut or at least catch the same wave, Sun plans to release binaries in Spring 2008 for its OpenSolaris Unix platform, similar to how Linux is offered, as part of the company's Project Indiana. July 12, 2:53 p.m. PDT Xen masters take aim at VMware It seems all roads lead to virtualization these days. From every conceivable angle, computing resources are being collapsed into abstraction layers that enable greater flexibility, and storage, application, server, and desktop virtualization vendors are riding the wave. The biggest push and most appealing opportunity is server virtualization, and the biggest and most appealing vendor is VMware. VMware isn't just the biggest player, however; it's also the most expensive option. July 9, 3:00 a.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 Linux official, Microsoft give thumbs-down to GPLv3 The new GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 is not a fit for Linux because switching would require permission from the kernel's thousands of de facto owners, a maintainer of the SCSI portion of the kernel said on Thursday. Also, Microsoft released a statement that the company has no GPLv3 obligations. July 6, 3:10 a.m. PDT Sun CEO keeps mum on GPLv3 Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz showed up Thursday evening at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference and declared he would not answer questions about the GNU general public license version 3, but he did disclose his lifelong fantasy concerning open source licensing. June 29, 12:06 p.m. PDT GPLv3 upgrade set for Friday A controversial update to the GNU GPL (General Public License) is set to be released Friday by the Free Software Foundation, a representative of the organization said on Tuesday. June 26, 5:00 p.m. PDT Veracode debuts system to test binary code Veracode launched its Software Security Ratings Service on June 25, introducing its new system for use in testing the safety of applications development among enterprise customers and third-party software makers. June 25, 1:25 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 IBM undeterred by setbacks to ODF adoption You might think the steady defeat of bills in several U.S. states to mandate the use of free interoperable file formats might dampen the spirits of IBM, one of the prime supporters of ODF (OpenDocument Format). Far from it, said IBM's Bob Sutor, who sees the recent news as par for the course in the evolution of any open standard. June 8, 11:53 a.m. PDT Microsoft, LG forge Linux amnesty deal Microsoft inked another cross-licensing patent agreement Wednesday, this time with South Korea's LG Electronics, covering the company's Linux-based embedded devices. June 7, 10:06 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Satinath Sarkar When Satinath Sarkar, CTO of Orion Technology talked to his friends 10 years ago about his specialty -- geographic information systems, or GIS -- he was met with quizzical looks. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Sheldon Wang Credit a shrewd technology strategy with propelling eHealthInsurance to the top of the heap in the online health insurance business. And that strategy starts with Dr. Sheldon Wang, who has been senior vice president and CTO since 1999. Wang and his team build complex software, but he has a simple strategy, best summed up in two words: open source. June 7, 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 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 Microsoft, Novell defend partnership, promise details Executives from Microsoft and Novell defended their controversial business agreement to collaborate and promote integration between Windows and Novell's SUSE Linux operating systems on Wednesday, saying that Microsoft's sales organization is now the biggest channel for SUSE Linux and that the deal will help, not hurt the prospects of Linux in the enterprise. May 24, 5:00 a.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 Open source outlook pondered Dignitaries from the open source arena pondered the paradigm's future at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, anticipating even greater ubiquity. May 23, 4:55 a.m. PDT Open source conference homes in on patent issues Although Microsoft was not mentioned by name during opening proceedings of the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, the company and its complaints about open source software allegedly violating 235 Microsoft patents clearly were on the minds of speakers and attendees. May 22, 11:30 a.m. PDT Hyperic: Open sourcing systems management Many a successful startup owes its creation to a wild gamble that paid off. Think about Andy Bechtolsheim's $100,000 bet on Google, a promising search company that didn’t even have a bank account yet. May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT How risky is open source? Even as its adoption in the enterprise has exploded, open source software remains dogged by questions regarding its legal status. Most recently, Microsoft has claimed that open source violates no fewer than 235 software patents. May 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source takes center stage "I can think of only two industries that refer to customers as users. One of them is IT." That particular gem comes from Anne Thomas Manes, research director at The Burton Group, one of the star speakers at last week's SOA Executive Forum in New York. (For those of you who missed the event, we'll be posting many of the presentations online, at SOAExecForum.com later this week.) May 21, 3:00 a.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 Trimming the Longhorn, threatening the Penguin Some weeks, the dog is man's best and fuzziest friend; others he's chasing you around the yard and snapping at your heinie — I'm having a real "Tom and Jerry" moment here. May 16, 3:00 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 GPL incompatibilities with Apache to be ironed out The Free Software Foundation, in upgrading the GNU General Public License, intends to iron out any incompatibilities with similar licenses from organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation. May 10, 11:45 a.m. PDT McNealy says Sun evaluating OpenSolaris on GPL Sun is evaluating whether it should release OpenSolaris under the GNU GPL (general public license), company co-founder and chairman Scott McNealy told reporters in Bangalore on a conference call Wednesday. May 9, 2:27 p.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 Can G.ho.st scare Microsoft? Somehow, the fact that startup G.ho.st has its headquarters in Jerusalem is fitting. After all, it wasn't far from the ancient city that the biblical hero David squared off against Goliath. And, in a sense, that is the tiny company and its G.ho.st (Global Hosted Operating System), is intent on doing with the giant of the operating system business: Microsoft. May 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Huddle: MySpace for the enterprise crowd Why not infuse the organic simplicity of MySpace-like social networking into the enterprise knowledge management world? That was the question Andy McLoughlin and Alastair Mitchell posed to one another a year ago. Their answer was huddle.net, a burgeoning Web-based project collaboration solution. May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Innovation, startups hot again in the enterprise Five years ago enterprise startups hit the skids, stung by a perfect storm of commoditization, vendor consolidation, and the IT spending downturn. In the intervening years, however, the skies have cleared and, to paraphrase Ronald Regan, "It's morning again for enterprise startups." May 1, 7:00 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 Web 2.0 Expo draws startups, superstars If anyone knows about the potential of what has been dubbed "Web 2.0" it's the folks over at O'Reilly Media. Heck, company founder Tim O'Reilly himself coined the phrase back in 2003 to describe the emergence of a new generation of Web-based business models in the wake of the dot-com collapse. And if this week's first-ever Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco is any measure, the Web 2.0 phenomenon is on track to exceed expectations. April 16, 4:00 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 GPL v3: V for vindication Version 3 of the Gnu GPL (General Public License) is nearing completion. The third draft -- expected to be the last before the license is finalized -- was released last Wednesday, fully eight months after the first draft was made available for public comment. Yet despite the long and painstaking public ratification process, the new GPL remains embroiled in controversy. April 2, 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 Open source VoIP makes the business connection Nearly three years since Jon “maddog” Hall predicted that “VoIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” open source VoIP for the enterprise remains a wild frontier. SMB uptake has been considerable, as open source VoIP’s promise of control and cost savings make it a natural fit. But when it comes to large-scale implementations, open source voice has yet to get most enterprises to listen. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Lending ear to open source VoIP Whereas commercial VoIP vendors typically supply their own phones, tying them to their IP PBXes for solid integration and providing phone setup, configuration, and maintenance as part of their packages, when it comes to deploying an open source VoIP solution such as Asterisk, it’s strictly a BYOP (bring your own phone) affair. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Case study: Asterisk proves its worth Despite Digium’s current positioning of Asterisk for the midmarket, plenty of large-scale implementations speak to the scalability and versatility of the open source IP PBX. One such rollout — that of Summer Bay Resorts, a time-share vacation property company — provides ample evidence that if the phone is the lifeblood of your business, Asterisk is more than up to the task. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Adventures in Asterisk deployment It seems I eat so much of my own dog food these days that I don’t have time to enjoy a nice steak every now and again. My experience with Asterisk hasn’t been any different. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST VoIP’s mad scientist Some stories are a labor of love. “Open Source VoIP Makes the Business Connection” is one of them. The love, in this case, originates with Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Tech tops the pop charts Remember the adrenaline rush when you first saw MTV in 1981? When they played “She Blinded Me With Science” in ’83? Well, if you want a fresh, geeky, thought-provoking video experience that gets your heart pumping, check out “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” one of the top-viewed videos on YouTube. It’ll appeal to the coder in you, as well as the futurist. March 15, 3:00 a.m. PST 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 Oracle increases involvement in Eclipse Foundation Oracle is making the whole of its TopLink Java persistence framework freely available as part of the vendor's increased involvement in the open-source development tools Eclipse Foundation community, the company announced Tuesday. March 6, 11:47 a.m. PST Is that code really yours? As open source software pushes its way further into the enterprise, a new set of risks has arisen regarding IP (intellectual property). The problem is that developers happily borrow code from various projects to save themselves from having to reinvent it. This help is all well and good as long as the resulting software complies with the licenses of the donor projects. The problem managers have is that they cannot know what parts of their code base comes from open source projects. A code snippet reused from a newsgroup posting could actually have come from a copyrighted open source project. And its use could legally require the company to open source its entire product. If the company is an ISV, it might even be faced with being required to offer its product at no cost. March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Free software is nothing to fear Nat Torkington stirred up some controversy when he asked, "Is 'Open Source' Now Completely Meaningless?" He has a good point, however. With so many companies claiming to be "open source" -- despite seemingly disparate business models and licensing schemes -- it's getting hard to tell what is legitimate open source and what isn't. The mere fact that so many voices have begun to weigh in on the issue is proof of how murky these waters have become. March 5, 3:00 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 Dell seeks a clue, will LG sue? Apparently Dell is too big for even Michael D. to run by himself. So the company has created the Digg-like Dell Idea Storm, where would-be CEOs can offer their 2 cents on how to run the show. At press time, more than 800 ideas had been submitted, with the most popular being: 1) preload less crapware, 2) offer more open source software, and 3) no more support calls with “Billie Jo from Bangalore,” please. The worst suggestion? Having Michael Dell deliver his PCs in person, kind of like a Domino’s pizza. And if the PC crashes or blows up within the first 30 minutes, it’s free. February 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Virtualization: Linux's killer app I came away from InfoWorld's Virtualization Executive Forum last week with two conclusions. First, server virtualization is definitely a big deal. This time last year, customers and ISVs still seemed to be struggling to come to terms with this new approach to deploying and managing servers; today it's full speed ahead. And, second, nowhere is virtualization hotter than in the Linux market. February 19, 3:00 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 Linux and Vista users share driver pain Customers are getting annoyed. They spent good money on the latest and greatest PC peripherals, only to find out that the hardware is only partially supported on their operating system of choice. Without the kernel drivers necessary to power them, some of the best features of the new toys are going unused. February 12, 3:00 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 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 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 Seven ways Solaris can beat Linux At a recent Sun Microsystems press event, Sun execs talked up plans to market the company's Solaris Unix OS to startups and small-to-midsize businesses. "Open source is what [customers] want to go after," said Peder Ulander, Sun's vice president of software marketing. "It's not so much Linux. Linux just happens to embody open source." January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun jumps on Sun Microsystems is joining in the pricing pig pile atop Red Hat, the leading Linux software company. 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 Agile scripting: Bigger bang for app-dev bucks Enterprises will spend too much this year creating monolithic apps — the sort of server-side efforts that involve formal requirements and tie up dozens (or hundreds) of architects, coders, and testers. Most would be better off using scripting languages, Web services, and SOA to weave together browser-based apps that leverage existing assets. January 8, 3:00 a.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 The free multimedia opportunity As 64-bit processing becomes mainstream, the next major computing platform shift is due to arrive by 2008. If the open source community doesn't step up to the plate and address major impediments to widespread desktop adoption, Linux could be left behind. January 1, 3:00 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 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 Oracle tackles identity governance There’s a common nightmare haunting CISOs (computer information security officers) that features a glance at the morning paper, and 72-point banner headlines with the name of their employer and the words “LOST” and “CUSTOMER DATA.” December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST China aims to set a new office doc standard What office document formats will your organization support next year? The answer used to be simple: You'd standardize on Microsoft Office, just like everybody else. December 4, 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 > Platforms > Standards |
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