Monthly Archives: June 2006
Skeptics Question Microsoft Interoperability Pitch
BOSTON—Some members of the open-source community are skeptical about Microsofts efforts to bridge incompatibilities between software licensed under the GNU General Public License and...
Is Gates Retirement Linuxs Chance?
On June 15, Bill Gates announced that he would be retiring from Microsoft in July 2008, and everything changed.
It may be two years away,...
Oracle Trumpets Content Management for the Masses
REDWOORD SHORES, Calif.—Not content to control half of the relational database market, Oracle on June 14 introduced two enterprise content management products aimed at...
Sybase Acquires German Data Integration Vendor Solonde
Enterprise and mobile software maker Sybase, needing to round out its data integration software product set, announced June 14 that it has acquired Hamburg,...
Gates to Step Aside, Focus on Philanthropy
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates is planning to leave in 2008 the company he founded 31 years ago, in order to...
Gates Stepping Back No Big Surprise
Bill Gates has provided a firm delivery date for the next version of the Microsoft company.
The date is July 2008 and the deliverable will...
Will Customers Scan Their Own Items in Line?
A Los Altos, Calif., technology vendor called SmartTools thinks that customers should stop lollygagging around in the cashier checkout lanes.While waiting, they should be...
Russian Software Outsourcer Auriga Seeks Wider Skies
MOSCOW—As a smaller Russian software outsourcer, Auriga faces the challenge of raising its profile in an industry where size matters when it comes to...
Aliens IPO Documents Shed Perhaps Too Much RFID Light
Few companies have come to represent the RFID space—warts and all—so clearly as has Alien Technology. So when the company announced plans to seek...
New Netscape Taps the Wisdom of Crowds
In an attempt to revive the flagging Netscape brand, AOL has begun to turn the Netscape portal page into a news site where users...