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The open-source development community is looking to head off Microsoft Longhorn before it escapes the Redmond corral. Some key members of the community recently met to discuss ways the open-source movement can prepare for Longhorn, the next major version of Windows that is expected to debut on the desktop in 2006. According to the minutes […]

Microsoft announced Tuesday morning that it has purchased accounting products from reseller partner Encore Business Solutions and is adding them to its Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) stable. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft purchased Encores non-profit accounting software, as well as its inter-company payables management and requisition modules. MBS already resells these […]

In October 2001, Microsoft invested $135 million in Corel, maker of WordPerfect and the corresponding suite of office productivity applications for Windows, Linux, and, at the time, Mac OS. Corel also had its own Linux distribution, of course, and had been ailing for several quarters due to a largely unfocused product line. In January 2001, […]

The release of WordPerfect Office 12—a tremendously capable package—is a healthy reminder that Microsoft Office, although currently thundering over the land, has competitors that not only equal but surpass it in many ways. Consumers and IT purchasers in businesses large and small have real choices and need to seriously investigate them. Toward that end, we […]

On April 24, Windows Server 2003 turned 1 year old. Microsoft officials say the product has sold like hotcakes. And last weeks third-quarter financials, driven by strong Windows Server licensing sales, underscored that message. Microsoft wont release specifics as to how many Windows Server 2003 licenses it has sold since the product launched, other than […]

Its no exaggeration to say the Google search engine has made the product youre holding in your hands considerably better. Thats because we as journalists depend on it to speed our research. Freed from keeping voluminous files of historical information, we can pursue more stories in greater depth, secure in the knowledge that Google and […]

Paul Watson became an Internet celebrity last week when the British government made public his research exposing a flaw in a core Internet technology that could allow hackers to shut down large portions of the global network. Watson began devoting much of his spare time to the issue. He said he spent evenings and two […]

CyberGuard Corp. on Monday unveiled plans to acquire German content security vendor Webwasher AG. Webwasher is the top Web filtering provider in Germany, and holds 40 percent of the market in Central Europe. “This [acquisition] shows that we are executing on our strategic vision of becoming a broad-based security company focused on delivering solutions aimed […]

Security experts at the Information Security Decisions conference in New York last week offered their thoughts on how the threat landscape will change over the next year. Worms are now being created for profit, no longer just for kicks or to demonstrate coding proficiency, according to John Frazzini, CEO of Security Systems Integration Corp. Hackers […]

Zone Labs Inc. on Monday unveiled a new version of its software designed to disable spyware on desktop computers in an enterprise network. Integrity Clientless Security 2.0 sits on an Apache or IIS server and scans computers for spyware as the desktops attempt to access a corporate LAN. The software automatically requires the computer user […]

In this interview with Oracle Vice President of Product Strategy for Server Technologies, Ken Jacobs—aka “Dr. DBA”—talks about the companys newest database release, Oracle10g, and hands out advice to database administrators and CIOs who are contemplating migrations. For the full story, go to SearchOracle. /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms Database Center at http://database.eweek.com for the latest database […]

Oracle told European Commission competition regulators in a closed-door hearing that it was using too narrow a definition of the market in its plan to block Oracles takeover of PeopleSoft. Oracle executives said the EC should be looking at the market for software aimed at smaller firms as opposed to merely looking at the markets […]