Monthly Archives: November 2007
IBM Slips in Latest Gartner Server Study
While IBM still dominates the worldwide server market when its comes to revenue, Big Blues system shipments fell in the third quarter of 2007...
Oracle Releases Software Support Management Platform
Oracle raised more questions about the viability of third-party application support when it released on Nov. 26 a system that enables customers to tap...
Report: Google Considers Expanding Online Storage
Rumors of a virtual hard drive from Google may not have been exaggerated after all.In an effort to move more user data into the...
Webroot and Email Systems to Merge
Webroot Software and Email Systems have merged to form a security software-as-a-service provider, capable of delivering e-mail archiving, encryption, anti-spam and anti-phishing services in...
And the Best Community Linux Is…
Desktop Linuxes are improving so quickly that its hard even for someone like me, who tracks operating systems the way some people track their...
New Java Encryption Tool Readied
The team behind the Jasypt Java encryption tool is rolling out Jasypt 1.4.Jasypt is a Java library that enables developers to add basic encryption...
Desktop Linux Trio Offers Look at Whats To Come
With Windows Vista turning fewer heads than XP SP3, and Apples Leopard exhibiting spotty security, companies and individuals would do well to ask themselves...
It’s the Directory, Stupid
I've been covering Linux and open-source software closely since the dawn of this millennium, and over those seven or so years I've become a...
A Gift Card Security Seal?
A major gift card exchange site has launched an unusual gift card program that guarantees all exchange transactions.The Plastic Jungle guarantee plan is done...
The Best IT Vendor of All? Red Hat
For the fifth year, CIO Insight polled IT executives on how well their major vendors deliver business value, reliability and quality. This years winner?...