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Looking to cut costs, Iowas Pottawattamie County switched from mostly Microsoft software to Linux. The move entails a migration to the MySQL open-source database management system and the hiring of staff with Linux expertise. For the full story, go to SearchDatabase.com. Check out eWEEK.coms Database Center at http://database.eweek.com for the latest database news, reviews and […]

This week in San Francisco federal court, Oracle Executive Vice President Keith Block admitted in videotaped testimony that Oracle cuts prices up to 70 percent when competition warrants. Block was called to the stand by the Department of Justice, which has brought Oracle to court to block its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft. For the full […]

As the antitrust trial between the Oracle and the Department of Justice entered its second day, enterprise customers and partners continued to weigh in on the elephant in the courtroom—namely, Microsoft. Two Microsoft Corp. executives are slated to testify during the trial, which is expected to last a month. And the revelation Monday that Microsoft […]

Security spending as a percentage of IT budgets is expected to peak in the United States in the next two years before settling to a sustainable level, according to a study from the Meta Group Inc. released yesterday. Growth is expected to be fastest in the United States, where security issues have a high public […]

Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday said it would integrate Trend Micro Inc.s virus and worm technologies with its intrusion-detection system software used on its routers and switches. The length and financial terms of the deal, which is an extension of a November 2003 agreement, were not disclosed. The first integration of Trend Micros signatures into Ciscos […]

Broadcom Corp. last week announced the enhanced IT security and virus/worm protection capabilities of its XelCore RAID software stack. New features include data redundancy, secure backup, and the ability to hide a copy of customer data from attacks against the enterprise and the network on which the data resides. The system is able to hide […]

Up to 80 percent of spam messages are sent from Trojan-infected home PCs, according to according to security firm Sandvine Inc. Many recent worm attacks were created to install spam Trojans, the company said. “As a complement to existing mail server and client-based tools, service providers need to arm themselves with network-based anti-spam defenses,” said […]

Freescale Semiconductor outlined its ultrawideband (UWB) product roadmap this week, as the Motorola subsidiary attempts to go it alone against a consortium of competitors. Freescale, which owns XtremeSpectrum, said that it plans to ship its first UWB chip delivering 110-Mbits per second of total bandwidth in the third quarter of 2004. A two-chip, 220-Mbit/s solution […]

Following reports that Microsoft delivered a sworn statement to the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this year claiming it had no intentions to enter the enterprise ERP market for at least two years, some company watchers were skeptical. But given Mondays disclosure by Microsoft that it held merger talks late last year with ERP market […]

Apple Computer did it, combining 802.11g wireless, a USB print server, a WiFi repeater and bridge, and the ability to stream music wirelessly to consumer-electronic equipment. The AirPort Express, priced at $129, will be sold to Mac and PC users beginning in July. Users will be able to plug the 6.7-ounce unit, about the size […]

Worldwide sales of computer-disk storage systems rose 3.5 percent in the first quarter, IDC (International Data Corp.) said last week. External disk storage systems revenue rose 6.5 percent to $3.5 billion in the first quarter. EMC Corp. ended the quarter on top with 20.2 percent of the external disk storage system market as measured by […]

Gadget makers last week showed off flash memory-based products at the Computex computer show in Taiwan. A recent slide in prices and increase in memory capacities helped to reduce prices of devices like MP3 players. The wholesale price for a 512MB MusicDrive mp3 player from Information Corp. had dropped to $98 from $135 in early […]