SAN FRANCISCO (09/29/2003) - Hoping to enhance its credibility among corporate users, Red Hat Inc. plans to construct an Open Source Architecture sculpted around the company's upcoming Linux operating system and middleware pieces that focus on management, security, and clustering capabilities.
SAN FRANCISCO (09/29/2003) - SuSE Linux on Tuesday will do its bit to bridge the 34- and 64-bit worlds when it makes available its SuSE Linux 9.0 desktop operating system that supports 32- and 64-bit applications running on Advanced Micro Device Inc.'s (AMD) Athlon 64 processor.
In a rare display of public camaraderie, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and IBM Corp. Software Chief Steve Mills Thursday cemented their respective companies' commitment to working together on accelerating the creation and adoption of Web services standards and applications.
Despite rapid success in the handheld computing market, Dell Inc. doesn't see a large opportunity in that market over the short term and will continue to focus the majority of its efforts on the servers, storage and networking markets.
Trying to further fuel its momentum in the grid computing market, IBM Corp. on Wednesday rolled out two new offerings aimed at the banking and financial markets and announced a handful of new grid projects among both commercial and scientific institutions.
SAN FRANCISCO (09/19/2003) - For corporate Linux users, open source developers, and IBM Corp., The SCO Group Inc.'s lawsuit remains a dark cloud on the horizon, threatening to spoil the party. Alleging its Unix code was illegally used in IBM's Linux, SCO has cast a pall over the industry. But there is always hope, and these groups see a good prospect for SCO losing its case, affirming open source principles in the process.
In a rare display of public camaraderie, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and IBM Software Chief Steve Mills further cemented the commitment of their respective companies to work together to accelerate the creation and adoption of key Web services standards and the resulting applications.
Microsoft's launch of Office 2003 Beta 2 this week marks a transition point in the company's quest to reinvent the productivity suite as a development platform.
Continuing to fiddle with the name of its upcoming Windows server, Microsoft this week announced it will drop the .Net branding from the product's name and will simply call it Windows Server 2003.
Hoping to better establish its version of Linux on the desktops of small and midsize companies, Red Hat Inc. on Monday will formally deliver Version 8.0 of the open-source operating system that features a spiffier graphical interface.
In an informal poll conducted by InfoWorld last week, 42 percent of respondents said that even though they currently use Microsoft Corp. servers they are planning to switch to non-Windows software on the server side because of discontent with the company's controversial licensing plan for desktop products.
The US$1 billion marketing and promotional blitz that Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., and its business partners are expected to wage in promoting Windows XP may be only so much as white noise to many corporate users who say they will push off buying decisions until next year.
Ian Clarke, who last year created a stir by challenging all copyright law using his Freenet peer-to-peer software as his weapon, has received $4 million from Intel and other investors to create commercial applications based on the software.
Enhanced network device interfaces likely to make it into Version 2.5
Linux is scaleable and can be used for mission-critical apps says Palmisano