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Microsofts Box Riffs on Life Inside The Empire
Microsoft XML Architect Don Box signed on with Microsoft in January, 2002, after a long career of consulting and writing about Microsoft from the...
Citrix Acquires Maker of GoToMyPC in $225M Deal
Citrix Systems Inc. on Thursday announced its acquisition of Expertcity Inc., the Santa Barbara, Calif., company that makes GoToMyPC and GoToAssist, in a cash-stock...
Suns Schwartz: Microsoft Leaving Users in the Lurch
Editors Note: On Thursday, Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of software at Sun Microsystems Inc., published on Suns Web site an open letter to...
The Years Database Delights and Disasters
What a year. Scarcely a day went by without fun and excitement in Database Land. If we werent racing to patch SQL Server systems...
Microsoft Delivers Not One, but Two, Service Pack Betas
Microsoft Corp. is putting the pedal to the metal to get beta releases of two of its most important service packs into the hands...
BlackBerry Handheld Gives Way to BlackBerry Service
PalmOnes and Microsofts handheld computers have had their ups and downs in competition with Research in Motion Ltd.: While their devices comfortably lead RIMs...
Microsoft Responds to Real Networks Suit
Faced with another private antitrust lawsuit, this time from digital media competitor Real Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp. late Thursday defended its business practices in...
Firewalls, Patches and Updates. Oh My!
Microsoft products, chief target of every deranged real and would-be hacker, have many vulnerable holes. This year large companies and government agencies became collateral...
$799 now the price point for Linux laptops
Robin Roblimo Miller points out that several small companies have now made inexpensive Linux laptops and desktops a reality. For the rest of the...
Paying Open Source Developers To Get Features Faster
Daniel Dern points out that just becaue open source software gives you the power to add the feature or functionality that you want, doesnt...