Monthly Archives: February 2007
Ubuntu Wants a Bigger Piece of Desktops, Servers
NEW YORK—The 2007 road map for the Ubuntu Linux operating system includes continuing its focus on the desktop, paying more attention to the server...
IBM Patches Flaws in DB2 Database
IBM has patched some serious flaws affecting users of DB2 Universal Database version 9.1 that could be exploited locally by attackers.A vulnerability in several...
Why Linus Torvalds Hates GNOME, Likes KDE
Its no secret that Linus Torvalds, Linuxs founder, dislikes the GNOME desktop. In 2005, for example, Torvalds posted on the GNOME-usability list that "I...
Analyzing the Data
Hurricanes in Florida. Floods in Louisiana. Fires in California. CEOs in hot water over regulatory concerns. Couple those issues with a cyclical profit-and-loss business...
New Firefox Updates Eliminate Major Security Flaw
Mozilla on Feb. 23 released updated versions of the Firefox browser, v1.5.0.10 and v2.0.0.2, for Windows, Mac and Linux, which include the fix for...
BEA Shares Drop on Forecast Warning
Shares of BEA Systems fell more than 9 percent a day after the middleware maker warned that its first-quarter revenue projections fell short of...
Microsofts Patent Disputes with Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T Make Waves
On Feb. 22, a San Diego jury delivered a stunning blow to Microsoft—a $1.52 billion patent judgment in favor of Alcatel-Lucent. The judgment was...
Blue Coat Accelerates Video over WANs
WAN optimization provider Blue Coat Systems on Feb. 26 will return to its roots as a content distribution networking company when it applies its...
EPA Begins Evaluation of Data Center Power, Cooling Issues
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The federal government in December became involved in the issue of power consumption in data centers when Congress passed a bill authorizing...
Where the Heck Is Etch?
Last September, some of the Debian Linux distributions leadership wanted to make sure that Etch, the next version of Debian, arrived on its Dec....