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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...

FCC Approves Telco Mergers

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday ordered several requirements to protect competition following Verizon Communications Inc.s planned purchase of MCI Inc. and SBC Communications...

Supreme Court Sends Microsoft Browser Case Packing

A U.S. patent office decision against Microsoft in September actually softens the sting of a legal setback the software giant experienced Monday, some Microsoft...

HPs Next Stop Is Unified Infrastructure Management

Now that its acquisition of SAN and SRM vendor AppIQ has been finalized, Hewlett-Packard Co.s road map—one in which AppIQs technology plays an integral...

Report: Health Care IT Market Looks Fit

With rapidly evolving health care information technology, mounting evidence of quality, safety and efficiency benefits, and a presidential political imperative, the market for health...

Trend Micro Wades into Enterprise Anti-Spyware

Hoping to increase its might in the anti-spyware market, Trend Micro Inc. has released two new products and one service, aimed at enterprises, small...

Oracles Free Database Is Good for Business

In a recent column I suggested that Oracles acquisition of Innobase might be a sign that Oracle was gearing up to support MySQL. Of...

Case Bails on Time Warner

America Online Inc. co-founder Steve Case said Monday he is resigning from Time Warner Inc.s board of directors.Case, who co-founded America Online in the...

Insuring Open Source the Old-Fashioned Way

Open Source Risk Management Inc. (OSRM), a New York-based software license compliance analysis vendor, Monday announced the availability of the first risk insurance policy...

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...