Monthly Archives: July 2004
Creative Destruction and the Future of the Software Industry
The way that software is being produced and acquired is changing rapidly. The availability of high quality software, often for no licensing costs and...
Will States or Feds Control VOIP Regulations?
Recent acceleration in the popularity of voice-over-IP services has lit a fire under lawmakers to define IP telephonys place within the larger scheme of...
Spy Sweeper 3.0
Even as adware and spyware evolve into more aggressive forms, antispyware utilities are becoming more effective at combating these pernicious pests. Webroots Spy Sweeper...
BayStar Threatens to Sue SCO
Just when the Unix community thought that the fractious BayStar-SCO dispute was history, the investment house proved everyone wrong. The company now says it...
SCO-Linux Wars Are Far from Over
Its not over yet.Yes, I know SCO lost in the DaimlerChrysler case, but when all was said and done, that case turned into a...
New FDA Standard May Speed Drug Discovery
In an effort that should let FDA experts spend more time analyzing data and less time reformatting it, the FDA on Wednesday announced a...
Virtual PC 7 Set for October Release
Macintosh users waiting for the release of Microsoft Corp.s Virtual PC for Mac Version 7 will have to wait until early October.Thats when the...
Bosworth Leaves BEA for Google
Adam Bosworth, a software industry icon and the secret weapon behind several products including Borland Quattro, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer and BEA WebLogic...
What Software Will Microsoft Open-Source Next?
As Microsoft continues its experiment with open licensing, analysts and members of the community ask what technologies the companies will open source next and...
Lack of IT Not Health Cares Only Ill
For all of the fanfare that came with late Julys Secretarial Summit on Health IT in Washington, D.C., we are unlikely to see vast...