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Sun Grid Utility Aimed at MS Word Docs

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday launched the latest assault on the proprietary Microsoft Word document format by offering a new Sun Grid utility service that...

IBM Acquires Specialized Search Firm iPhrase

IBM said Tuesday it has acquired the assets of iPhrase Systems Inc., a privately held search technology company based in Bedford, Mass., and will...

Moglen to Focus on the Meaning of Free Software

NEWTON, Mass.—Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, wants to spend his time at the Open Source Business Conference here on...

SCO Starts to Show Its Cards

SCO finally revealed to the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City some of what it claims IBM stole from its Unix intellectual property...

Microsoft Live: Hailstorm Take 2

When you get past the marketing fluff of "sea changes" and "21st century Internet," Microsoft did not announce a lot of new deliverables during...

ISO Makes Linux Standards Base a Standard

NEWTON, MASS.—The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) here will open on Tuesday to the news from the Free Standards Group that the Linux Standards...

IBM Gives Servers a 10G Boost

IBM is bringing Neterion Inc.s 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology to its xSeries servers. The two companies announced Monday that IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., will deploy...

Novell Changes Leadership

Novell announced on Tuesday that the previous day its board of directors had promoted Ron Hovsepian, executive VP and president of global field operations,...

Ruby on Rails Dev Framework on Track for Growth

As with any development environment vying for traction, the Ruby on Rails open-source Web application development framework is seeing the emergence of a vibrant...

Microsoft Live Era Meets Dead Air

SAN FRANCISCO—About every five years, Microsoft holds an event to introduce a "big bet" that Bill Gates is making in hopes of changing computing...