Monthly Archives: October 2006
Oracle Adopts Red Hat Linux as Its Own
Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same enterprise-class support for Linux as it provides for its database, middleware and applications...
SAS Unleashes a Bevy of BI Tools
Business intelligence software developer SAS announced a bevy of new products to help companies better predict and manage business fluctuations, at the BetterManagement Live...
Ubuntu Makes Business Moves, but No Oracle Deal … Yet
On the eve of Ubuntu Linuxs Version 6.10 release, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and its commercial wing, Canonical, held an early morning...
AMD Completes $5.4 Billion ATI Acquisition
Advanced Micro Devices has completed its $5.4 billion acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies, a move that company officials said will enable them...
OEMs Reveal Their Vista Upgrade Plans
While both Gateway and Hewlett-Packard are going to let customers who buy certain PCs this holiday season upgrade to Windows Vista at no cost,...
Is It Really Too Late to Beat Bots?
To my mind its been obvious for many, many years, since before we even spoke of "botnets": The only way to stop them is...
SUSE Linux Goes Real Time
SUSE Linux is often found on the edge of the enterprise as webservers, in branch offices on fileservers, and in the data center running...
AOL Bets Big on AJAX
BOSTON—America Online, the creator of one of the largest online communities, has done so with the help of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML technology, a...
HP, Cingular Keep Things Connected with iPaq
Hewlett-Packard and Cingular Wireless announced on Oct. 25 that starting on Oct. 31, Cingular will be the first delivery service in the United States...
Microsoft Decries Vista PatchGuard Hack
Microsoft officials say they are unhappy that security software maker Authentium has decided to bypass the controversial PatchGuard kernel protection feature in its next-generation...