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Open-Source Database Technologies Flourish at LinuxWorld

Microsoft can snipe all it wants at the TCO and security of open source, but a flood of database-, BI- and data-center-related news coming...

LinuxWorld Visitors Look for Real-World Apps

SAN FRANCISCO—The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here this week has drawn fewer people who came to learn what Linux is all about and more...

Readers Respond: Sarbanes-Oxley: In Search of Payback

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was not intended to provide benefits to corporate bottom lines, but to provide benefits to stockholders and other users of financial...

Daylight-Saving Time Change May Cause Device Problems

An energy bill signed this week by President Bush will lengthen daylight-saving time by nearly a month, and some industry insiders worry that the...

Vendors Form RFID Consortium

A group of 20 companies that develop RFID-based products—chips, tags, labels and readers—announced an intellectual property licensing consortium Tuesday to ease the pain that...

MS Corrects IE Patch Download Glitch

Less than 24 hours after pushing out patches for three critical Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, Microsoft has re-released the bulletin to correct a glitch that...

Microsoft Continues to Raid Lotus

Microsoft Corp. continues to woo top Lotus software developers to its ranks. Among its most recent hires are two former Lotus developers, Julio Estrada, who...

Business Objects Launches BI Platform for Linux

Business Objects XI package for Business Intelligence—the fulfillment of the product roadmap the company laid out after it acquired Crystal Decisions Inc. late in...

Google Adds RSS Feed Option to News

Google has reversed its initial snub of the RSS format, enabling users for the first time to add Really Simple Syndication feeds from Google...

Ask Jeeves: The Second Coming?

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Left for dead by the search engine establishment and recently bailed out to the tune of almost $2 billion, Ask Jeeves is...