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Within weeks of joining Oracle Corp. last spring, Charles Phillips began to play a prominent role in Oracles hostile takeover bid for enterprise applications developer PeopleSoft Inc. Having come from more than a decade as an IT industry financial analyst on Wall Street, that was not terribly surprising. Observers did take note, however, when Oracle […]

Vivek Paul is at the center of the outsourcing debate. As vice chairman of Wipro Ltd. and CEO of Wipros global IT, product engineering and business process services segments, Paul has been central to the companys growth; the $1 billion company has 26,000 employees and 24 locations around the world. Editor in Chief Eric Lundquist […]

SCO would rather you volunteer to buy their license online, so they dont have to risk going after you by mail or using threats, maybe… those pesky laws being how they are. Or maybe they hope to escape the bonds of the GPL this way. Or just maybe they are about to sue some folks, […]

By midyear, Microsoft Corp. plans to make its XML programming language—currently code-named Xen and soon to be renamed C Omega—available to researchers and academics. At the same time, Microsofts Research division is making the new language available to product teams inside the company for possible use or inclusion in forthcoming products. Thats according to Wolfram […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft Corp. kicked off its 30-city DevDays tour here on Monday with a demonstration of the “Whitehorse” modeling tools that it plans to integrate into the next version of its Visual Studio tool suite. Whitehorse is just one of a number of new features that Microsoft is planning on including in its Visual Studio […]

In a recent column, I wondered aloud if too much credit is being given to Linux in explaining Microsofts strategies. Read the “Its Not ALL About Linux” Column for a Refresher As I noted, theres no denying that Microsoft is worried about Linux, and justifiably so. But, contrary to prevailing “wisdom,” this fear is not […]

TippingPoint Technologies Inc. this week announced an update to its intrusion-prevention appliance. The companys ASIC-based appliance called UnityOne can be used at the perimeter of the network and inside an intranet to prevent denial-of-service and SYN flood attacks and keep process-table floods from spreading. In version 4.1, the company added the ability to allocate bandwidth […]

Homeland Security Department this week said it created three groups of government technology officials to share information in an effort to strengthen computer security and coordinate responses to future computer attacks. One of the groups, the Government Forum of Incident Response Teams (G-FIRST), will include federal agencies chief security information officers and computer experts from […]

The Federal Trade Commission this week collected it largest fine to date for a violation of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) when UMG Recordings agreed to pay $400,000 to settle civil charges brought by the government agency. In a separate civil settlement, Bonzi Software, distributor of the BonziBuddy software, agreed to pay $75,000 […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week announced a plan to place warnings on DVDs, CDs and video games about the penalties for making unauthorized copies. The new warning label will carry the FBI seal and reads: “The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary […]

In a wide-ranging interview, Adam Bosworth, chief architect and senior vice president of BEA Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., talked to eWEEK senior writer Darryl K. Taft last month and got candid about his plans for XML at BEA, competing with Microsoft, BEAs impact on making Java development easier and lots of other good stuff. […]

The legally embattled Unix company The SCO Group distributed a press release Wednesday, and for a change it wasnt about a lawsuit, intellectual property violations regarding Unix, or distributed denial of service attacks on its Web site. SCO announced the delivery of its OpenServer Update Pack 2, what it called “a key milestone in the […]