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In the news this week, Red Hat acquires JBoss; mini-tower desktop computers are on the way out; TIAA-CREF officials say they have fixed their IT problems; and HIPAA compliance gets examined in the latest eWeek Roadmap. In Labs, Jason Brooks recommends Fedora Core 5 in the enterprise. Peter Coffee says Googles online calendar application might […]

Red Hat has been busy. Not content to sit on its lead its lead in the Linux distribution space, the company went out and bought the largest open source middleware company, JBoss, on April 10. Red hat could be a winner, but Sun looks to be the loser. Duration: 11:10 /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to download this […]

Now that the dust has settled on Red Hats April 10 announcement that it plans to buy JBoss for $350 million, CEO Matt Szulik took time to talk to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about the deal, its ramifications and the potential partner fallout that may follow. Did Red Hat initially approach JBoss about this […]

With its just-fielded Google Calendar service, Google is going head-to-head with a number of other companies with lengthier histories in this space, including archrival Microsoft. Microsoft has offered calendaring as part of Outlook and Hotmail for years. Recently, Microsoft added more calendaring offerings to its stable. It introduced a new calendaring facility that it is […]

Data mining is not just for breakfast anymore. Or something like that. Where its focus has been on collecting data and reporting past trends, where money is being spent, and return on investments, now, as volumes of data increase and managers are becoming aware that theres a lot more information in that data, they are […]

eWEEK Labs Senior Analyst Jason Brooks gives high marks to the new Fedora Core 5, which includes the Gnome Desktop 2.14 and ships with support for Mono applications, including the Beagle search engine, Linuxs answer to the Google Desktop; and TomBoy, a notes application that works like a Wiki. Duration: 6:48 /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here to download […]

Will the delay in Microsofts Windows Vista have a domino effect on other planned releases of Windows? Partner sources close to the company said that Microsoft has sketched out plans for Windows “Fiji” (also referred to by some Microsoft watchers as Vista R2)—the version of Windows set to follow Vista—as for Windows “Vienna,” the successor […]

/zimages/1/131944.jpgLawson Software was, for a brief shining moment, a company poised to take over the world—or at least become a major force in the ERP (enterprise resource planning) market, picking up where PeopleSoft left off after it was snatched up by Oracle in early 2005. But that reality never came to pass. Between 2002 and […]

Red Hat just announced its intent to acquire JBoss for $350 million. Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss, spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft on March 30 after word that a potential deal with Oracle had fallen through. Though Fleury would not address the Oracle situation directly, he spoke candidly about what he wanted […]

Remember the printer repair companies? Your printer broke, your repairman arrived and your printer was fixed. Ink, toner, paper and supplies might all come from the same soup-to-nuts Acme printer repair shop, if not the leased printer itself. Its no surprise, then, that the first significant attempt at delivering hardware as part of a managed […]

For years, Microsoft and others have tried to hold the small and midsize business at bay by wrapping enterprise stuff in SMB marketing and pushing it down. In the meantime, these vendors have continued to evolve the software stack into a monstrous tower that now reaches into the clouds and requires a thousand times the […]

In this special eWEEK Labs TestRun, eWEEK Labs Director Jim Rapoza and Senior Analyst Jason Brooks, fresh off of Labs tests of JBoss and Red Hat products, discuss the acquisition of JBoss by Red Hat and the effect this will have on customers and the two companies products. This is eWEEK Podcast #67. /zimages/2/28571.gifClick here […]