Monthly Archives: August 2005
Black Duck, Olliance Will Partner on Strategy
SAN FRANCISCO—Black Duck Software, a provider of software compliance management solutions, has announced an alliance with Olliance Group, an open source management consulting firm.
The...
Building the IT Stack We Really Want
In an eWEEK column last autumn, I proposed "a new default: to configure system privileges from the bottom up, instead of starting with wide-open...
IBM Open-Sources New Search Technology
IBM plans to release as open-source a sophisticated new search and text analysis technology that is able to find relationships, trends and facts buried...
Mainframes: Dinosaurs Reborn?
Ask a mainframe aficionado what he or she thinks about utility computing, computing on demand and virtual computing, and youll often get the answer...
Tool Girds Grid for Enterprise
Playing off its success with delivering high-performance computing environments, Platform this week will detail an attempt to take its grid expertise into enterprise IT.
"IT...
Oracle to Buy I-Flex in $909M Deal
Swirling rumors concerning more Oracle Corp. acquisitions were proved true last week when the software maker announced plans to buy a majority stake in...
DC Cops Solve Data Access Caper
You dont have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that the most important tool in fighting crime is information. Still, there was a time...
JBuilder Helps Keep Mercy Ships Afloat
When Mercy Ships conducts its missions of mercy in ports around the world, it owes a great deal to Borland Software Corp.s JBuilder, which...
Mercy Ships Has Helped Millions
Mercy Ships brings help and healing to poor nations around the world, according to Kelvin Burton, Mercy Ships chief technology officer.
Founded in 1978, the...
Scripted Development Answers
Every enterprise IT constituency craves the attractive user experience and low life-cycle costs that can flow from the use of scripting languages—notably JavaScript, Perl,...