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Vista Looks Ready to Ship at Ebb Tide of PC Demand

Time to market can mean the difference between making your numbers and losing your shirt in our business, especially for PC hardware OEMs. In the...

Microsofts Blue Hat Shows Its Serious About Security

For critics of Microsoft Corp.s software, 2003 was a very good year. The appearance of the Slammer and Blaster worms was evidence—if any were...

SOAs Gather Steam with Proposed Specs

With the adoption of SOAs moving beyond pilot stages, underlying Web services standards are also maturing. The e-business standards consortium Organization for the Advancement of...

Stop the Software Patent Madness Now

When I was a kid, one of my jobs was to pick the ticks off our hound dog, George. It was an ugly job, but...

Scientigo Makes Broad XML Patent Claims

The Web is built on open standards. Until recently, XML was considered one of them. Now, Scientigo is claiming that two of its patents...

Goodbye to the Truest Believer

Nobody believed in the potential of the Internet more than America Online founder Steve Case. And no ones reputation has been so tarnished as...

Red Hat Wants Xen in Linux Kernel

Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. is aggressively pushing to get Xen virtualization technology included in the Linux kernel as quickly as possible. Brian Stevens, the...

Oracle Hands Developers a Free Database

Taking steps to guard itself against the growing popularity of cheaper open-source databases, as well as making lower-end application developers and students more familiar...

Microsoft Needs to Say No to Web 2.0

Microsoft wants, in the worst way, to be cool. Apple and Sony and Google kind of cool. To Microsofts credit—at least so far—the company hasnt...

If Its Not Easy, Users Dont

Users rarely behave as planned unless thats the easiest thing for them to do. Alfresco Softwares enterprise content management platform, released today, applies this...