Monthly Archives: April 2004
BayStar Seeks to Pull SCO Investment
In the latest twist in The SCO Group Inc.s funding saga, BayStar Capital Management LLC is trying to pull out its SCO investment, claiming...
Advocacy Group Goes After Microsofts FAT Patent
A patent advocacy group is seeking to have one of Microsofts patents for its file allocation table (FAT) file system revoked, alleging that the...
Open Source Going Strong Despite SCO Suits
Open-source use is going strong, in spite of a spate of lawsuits brought by the SCO Group Inc. According to a new report from...
The Whoops! Files: Local Government
Although the federal governments information-system miscues get a lot of attention, there are plenty of local- and regional-level snafus. Heres a sampling of a...
Widenius: MySQL Ready to Take on the World
On the last day of MySQL ABs second-annual user conference, eWEEK.coms Database Center Editor Lisa Vaas caught up with MySQL co-founder and chief technology...
Kattoon: April 20, 2004
Read this weeks Spencer column.
Hard Drives: Where Performance Still Counts
Not that we need it, but we are about to enter another performance war.Certainly this should come as no surprise. Weve had platform fights,...
Integrators Retain Faith in Suns Recovery
Sun Microsystems Inc.s long struggle to return to profitability hasnt shaken the loyalty of Solaris system integrators to the companys computer architecture—or to its...
Whats Spyware? (Part Deux)
In a recent column, I looked at the proposed SPYBLOCK (Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer Knowledge) act in Congress and concluded that...
Dell Reclaims PC Crown
Driven by strong demand from business, Dell Inc. overcame Hewlett-Packard Co. in worldwide PC shipments for the first quarter of 2004, said analysts Thursday.
Dell...