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You can at long last go
and download Vista SP1
from the Windows Update
service, a fact that
should signal an uptick
in Vista adoption, the
once-burned-twice-shy
having learned to wait
for such things from
Microsoft. People who
want Microsoft to start
downloading S...
In the run-up to its
Developer Forum next
month, which is way over
in Shanghai, Intel
dropped a few factoids
about Nehalem, Dunnington
and Larrabee on the press
this week. This being an
even number year, Intel
is going to move to a new
microarchitecture
represente...
Red Hat has open sourced
its Certificate System -
or rather those parts of
it that weren't already
open sourced. Certificate
System, its identity
management and security
system, derives from the
Netscape technology that
Red Hat got from AOL
three years ago and
pie...
The US Supreme Court has
refused to hear
Microsoft's appeal of
Novell's
multibillion-dollar
antitrust suit against
it. The news hit just as
Novell's annual
BrainShare user
conference was getting
starting. Basically a
private replay of the
Justice Department's su...
Oracle has open sourced
the embeddable XQilla
XQuery engine code, its
implementation of the W3C
XQuery 1.0 standard,
which lets developers
query XML data like SQL
for relational data. The
widgetry, now at
SourceForge under the
Apache 2.0 license, is
used in buildi...
Alcatel-Lucent, which
owns Bell Labs, where
Unix was created, says
it's going to integrate
Red Hat's Enterprise
Linux and Realtime
technologies into its
communication products
for SMEs with
availability set for the
first half of next year.
No value was suggested
...
When the next generation
of SUSE Linux arrives,
and goodness knows when
that will be - Novell
doesn't even want to talk
about an ETA until the
end of this year - but it
says that when it does
get here one of its
avatars will be as an
appliance, supported by a
new ...
Russia Post and US Linux
market leader Red Hat
have signed what the post
calls a 'protocol'
agreeing to work together
to introduce the Linux
operating system and
other unnamed open source
programs to the post's IT
structure. The deal was
signed by the deputy
gener...
The other shoe has
dropped - not that it's
that unexpected - just
that it could screw up
some economic models.
See, the general manager
of Intel's emerging
markets unit Lila Ibrahim
told Reuters Wednesday
that Intel was going to
see to it that a
second-generation ...
The Inquirer claims that
AMD has quietly started
cutting 5% of workforce
across-the-board, tying
the reported downsizing
to speculation that the
company will miss this
quarter badly and
characterizing the
layoffs as a preemptive
attempt to get costs
under control....
MySQL - and by extension
Sun's sales force - are
going to start peddling
Zmanda's open source
backup and recovery
software written
especially for MySQL to
the enterprise. Starting
April 1, MySQL Enterprise
customers will be able to
buy subscriptions to
Zmanda's Re...
Microsoft's Hyper-V, its
delayed,
VMware-scratching
hypervisor-based
virtualization software,
is now feature-complete
and broadly available as
a first release
candidate. A beta of the
stuff was included in
Windows Server 2008 when
it launched late last
month and...
AMD has open sourced an
Eclipse plug-in called
CodeSleuth, apparently
the equivalent of its
CodeAnalyst Performance
Analyzer, meant to give
Java developers an idea
of how their software is
performing on AMD chips,
including the quad-core
Barcelona. 
The olive branch - well,
okay, twig - olive twig -
that Microsoft extended
to the open source
Eclipse Foundation
Wednesday was the
undertaking to help make
the Eclipse Standard
Widget Toolkit (SWT) work
with Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF) so it's
easier for...
With all programming
about to become parallel
programming, the
industry's famous Wintel
twins, Microsoft and
Intel, said this
afternoon that they will
be putting $20 million
into university research
over the next five years.
Their objective is to
make parallel pro...
Yahoo's not the only
company scrambling to
avoid getting sucked up
by Microsoft. Yahoo owns
39% of Alibaba Group,
which in turn owns
China's biggest B2B
portal, and that interest
would pass to Microsoft
if Microsoft buys Yahoo.
So now Alibaba,
reportedly spooked b...
A reported tête-à-tête
between Microsoft and
Yahoo on March 10 at
which Microsoft is
supposed to have painted
its picture of what a
combined company would
look like apparently
hasn't advanced
Microsoft's suit any - at
least not at the price
it's offering to pay.
...
Google said Tuesday that
it's going mobile with
its Google Gears
technology, the stuff
that's supposed to let
web-based apps run
unconnected to the web,
beginning with Windows
Mobile 5 and 6 devices
ahead of its own nascent
Android platform. Same
day, Microsoft ca...
CEO Paul Otellini,
economists and lawyers in
tow, defended Intel
against the European
Commission's antitrust
accusations at a two-day
closed-door hearing this
week. Intel contends that
its business practices,
complained of as
anticompetitive by AMD,
which has lodg...
Shades of IBM Global
Services! Red Hat has
bought itself a
Virginia-based consulting
firm that it will run as
an independent Red Hat
company - its first - to
help it exploit its JBoss
middleware acquisition.
Red Hat hasn't disclosed
what it's spent buying
Amentra ...
It looks like the
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts is going to
be asking IBM's Cognos
acquisition for its $13
million back because the
only reason Cognos got
the performance
management software
contract last year was
because it had
Massachusetts House
Speaker Salva...
Ah, sweet irony.
Transmeta founder and
ex-CEO Dave Ditzel, the
guy who meant to tear a
really mean piece out of
Intel's haunch only to
find his own ass in a
sling when Intel kicked
back, has turned up at
Intel as vice-president
of the company's Digital
Enterprise ...
Microsoft is buying
enterprise desktop
virtualization start-up
Kidaro Inc, intending to
combine its technology
with its own suite of
desktop management tools,
the Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack for
Software Assurance, so
its biggest customers can
deploy and m...
Microsoft is buying
enterprise desktop
virtualization start-up
Kidaro Inc, intending to
combine its technology
with its own suite of
desktop management tools,
the Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack for
Software Assurance, so
its biggest customers can
deploy and manage virtual
PCs. 
Oracle zeroed in on
Salesforce.com the other
day when it rolled out
the latest version of
Siebel's rechristened
on-demand software, now
called Oracle CRM On
Demand 15 and targeted up
to run on Blackberries
with fashionable social
networking and
collaboration
cap...
The open source advocates
at the Software Freedom
Law Center (SFLC) are
telling the open source
community at large that
Microsoft's 'irrevocable'
Open Specification
Promise (OSP) protecting
open source projects from
patent risk as far as its
up-for-standardization
...
HP Labs is reorganizing
to focus on research that
brings in money. Its
priorities are now the
Information explosion
(getting the right
information to the right
people), dynamic cloud
services (dynamically
personalized based on a
person's location,
preferences, cal...
IBM says it's found a way
to make mashups secure
enough for business.
Because of inherent
browser insecurity,
mashups aren't really
viable for widespread
business adoption. But
what's a little thing
like viability compared
to the pressure of
keeping up with the
...
SAP is going into the
Linux appliance business.
It expects its OEM
friends and IHVs to sell
a quad Xeon-based server
that Intel's put together
for it that's got SUSE
and SAP's own MaxDB
database and Business
All-in-One software
pre-installed. 
Under its collaboration
deal with Microsoft, Zend
Technologies has
certified Zend Core 2.5,
its commercially
supported version of PHP,
on Windows Server 2008,
and that's supposed to
mean that
high-performance web
applications written in
PHP should run as good on
...
Red Hat is shoring up its
IP expertise. Why we can
only speculate about.
It's hired two IP
experts. Robert Tiller is
now assistant general
counsel. Richard Fontana,
last with the Software
Freedom Law Center and
involved with Eben Moglen
in drafting and getting
the...
IBM is lending at least
its ODF-based Lotus
Symphony software to
another mission to rid
the world of Windows PCs.
According to a Reuters
story Tuesday, IBM is
part of an eastern front
designed to supply
Microsoft-free
Linux-based PCs to Russia
and perhaps other Ea...
Appistry, the start-up
whose motto is 'we scale
ugly apps' and claims to
offer 'Googlization for
the masses,' is stepping
off into what it calls
'open distribution' of a
Community Edition of its
grid-based application
platform, its alternative
to Java EE application
servers and .NET.
Acquia has yet to price
its maintenance and
support subscriptions -
there should be a variety
of SLAs - but they're
supposed to include an
electronic update
notification system code
named Spokes for updates
that have been reviewed
for security and
compatibility an...
Parallels has released
the beta of its baremetal
hypervisor-based
Parallels Server hardware
virtualization scheme to
public download. It works
on Windows, Linux and
Intelbased Macs and
includes a Parallels
Management Console,
Transporter
physicalto-virtual
migra...
Microsoft, if nothing
else, has become a
problem for Yahoo's $350
million Zimbra
acquisition and Google's
rudimentary Sites
contribution to the
advance of
software-as-a-service
announced last week by
throwing open the more
sophisticated Exchange
Online and Share...
In the bowels of the
great Microsoft machine a
team has been working on
something that may or may
not be called 'Mesh,'
something that Microsoft
chief architect Ray Ozzie
hintingly described the
other day during his
keynote at Mix '08 as a
'kind of universal file
...
Apple said yesterday that
the iPhone, which faced
serious hurdles vaulting
into the enterprise, is
going to support Exchange
2003 and 2007,
Microsoft's corporate
e-mail, contact and
calendaring product, a
move expected to give the
eight-month-old iPhone
better pur...