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Rotten Grapes, IBM and Patents

IBM has recently opened the doors for open-source programmers to freely use 500 of its patents in their software so long as their projects...

IBM Gives 500 Patents to Open-Source Developers

IBM is giving individuals, groups, communities and companies working on open-source software free and unfettered access to innovations covered by 500 of its software...

Entourage, Evolution Boost Mail Exchange on Mixed Platforms

With e-mail still providing the backbone of most corporate communications, the lack of Microsoft Corp. Exchange Server clients on Mac OS and Linux platforms...

Microsoft Pursues Cross-Licensing Deals

As Microsoft Corp. pursues its goal of signing cross-licensing agreements with the approximately 40 global companies that hold the most technology patents, it is...

Open-Source Survey Tool phpESP Stands Test of Time

Given the high cost of commercial survey applications and services, its no surprise that low- and no-cost open-source alternatives have emerged for performing surveys...

Thunderbird Gets Messages Out

The Mozilla Foundations Thunderbird 1.0 is a serviceable messaging application, albeit one without the group calendaring features of IBMs Lotus Notes or Microsoft Corp.s...

Critics Hit Sun Gear Giveaway

Sun Microsystems Inc. is again using the lure of free hardware to help grow its business, but industry insiders remain skeptical of the program,...

BladeRunner Is Linux Cluster-Ready

Penguin Computing Inc.s first blade system, the BladeRunner, is a cluster-ready Linux solution with a reasonable price tag. eWEEK Labs tests show that the...

Pervasive Seeds an Open-Source EcoSystem

A long-time ruler in the realm of embedded databases is busting out of that paradigm and eyeing the enterprise database market, with Mondays announcement...

Thunderbird: Not Quite Ready for Business

I love Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundations standalone e-mail client. I mean I really, really like it a lot. I use it on my Windows XP...