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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...

Oracle DB Worm Code Published

An anonymous hacker has released the first public example of an Oracle database worm. The proof-of-concept code was published on the Full-disclosure mailing list with...

Skeptical IT Execs Poke at the Tender Underbelly of Open Source

NEWTON, MASS.—They lined up onstage to float their 1-minute elevator pitches, these sellers of open-source dreams: XenSource Inc. with virtualization software, ActiveGrid with its...

Microsoft Serves Up Internet Services Live

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a renewed focus on services delivered over the Internet, as it tries to fend off challenges from Google and...