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Tis the Season to Counterfeit

Chairman William Killgallon of toymaker Ohio Art is expecting his companys stocking to be filled with lumps of counterfeit goods this holiday season.Killgallon isnt...

Oasis Approves UBL Testing

The organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems last week approved the UBL 1.0 beta for public implementation testing.Jon Bosak, chairman of the...

Wind Joins Eclipse, OSDL

Wind River Systems Inc., which makes proprietary embedded operating systems and development tools for creating embedded applications, has joined two open-source consortia.Wind River, of...

CA Releases Unicenter Web-Services Management System

Computer Associates International Inc. on Monday released its new Web-services-management solution, the Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management. The system was launched into beta during...

Sun, AMD Chiefs See Better Times Ahead

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., have had their challenges over the past couple of years, but last week the heads of...

Evaluating Software: Proprietary Versus Open Source

TrueLink CTO Scott Metzger created a calculator similar to the downloadable interactive tool on this page to assess whether it would be more valuable...

Software Activation Still a Bad Idea

Hey, software vendors, would you like to keep your customers happy and encourage new sales? Heres how: Dont put activation in your products, and...

Get Used to Offshoring

The arguments of Don ONeill of the Center for National Software Studies remind me of the protectionist arguments of the early 60s and 70s....

Pulling the Plug

If youre like most IT pros, your company is running applications that were created well before you arrived on the scene. How much longer...

A Call for Action in Washington

Some of the same software companies that have outsourced jobs overseas in recent years in response to growing competitive pressures are urging policy-makers to...