By Maureen O'Gara  AMD sent out a short sharp message Thursday morning saying that the way things are going it expects revenues from continuing operations this quarter to be ~25% lower than they were last quarter and that was only $1.585 billion. Its calculations do not include process technology license... Dec. 4, 2008 10:55 AM |
By Maureen O'Gara  IBM is taking another shot at blowing Microsoft off the desktop and this time it’s got the foul economic winds at its back. In the name of cost cutting, IBM is proposing that companies virtualize their desktops and turn them into thin clients using Virtual Bridges' Virtual Enterprise... Dec. 4, 2008 10:48 AM Reads: 183 |
By Ruby News Desk "Ruby on Rails is always evolving and has over the past five years gone through some fifty-plus public releases," said David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails and member of the Rails Core Team. "Rails developers need the supporting ecosystem to keep up with that evolution. New Relic... Dec. 4, 2008 10:24 AM |
By Maureen O'Gara  Oracle threw some data integrity protection code over the wall and it's been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel. It reportedly lets the Linux kernel utilize key data protection information for the first time in its life. It's also the first implementation of the T10 Protection Infor... Dec. 4, 2008 08:52 AM Reads: 141 |
By Maureen O'Gara  VMware, the struggling virtualization leader, has, as expected, put View 3 on the market to do battle with Citrix' XenApp and XenDesktop widgetry. It's supposed to be a big advance in virtual desktop computing, described by the company as a major step in its vClient Initiative, which w... Dec. 3, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 396 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Continuent has announced support and enhancements to MySQL Server 5.1.30 GA release, the 5.1 production version of the open source database. MySQL 5.1.30 is recommended for use on production systems by the MySQL build team at Sun Microsystems. Continuent Tungsten provides advanced repl... Dec. 3, 2008 09:12 AM Reads: 190 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The promised beta release of Moonlight 1.0, the Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight widgetry, has finally wended its way out. Moonlight is of course the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight and should give Linux users the same rich, high-definition media ... Dec. 3, 2008 08:48 AM Reads: 262 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Zoho, the prolific Microsoft wannabe that has already proven it can knock off a web app at the drop of a buzzword, is branching out into middleware. It’s come up with some widgetry – aimed at developers this time, not end users – called CloudSQL that’s supposed to let people in... Dec. 3, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 203 |
By Search News Desk CNET has reported a 24 percent increase in unique users year-over-year. The traffic increase comes two months after the launch of the CNET redesign, a complete evolution of the website that spanned everything from its logo, design, and navigation to the delivery of product reviews, tec... Dec. 2, 2008 08:55 AM Reads: 162 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures (IV), the great patent vacuum, has a piece of Novafora's deal to buy Transmeta, according to a filing dropped off with the SEC. IV was apparently there at the bargaining table with Novafora, which makes digital video processors. It’s putting $1... Dec. 1, 2008 11:40 AM Reads: 457 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The two-year anniversary of the Novell-Microsoft alliance that scandalized the open source community passed quietly enough earlier this month. The pair waited a couple of weeks to mark the occasion and then said that in the second year of their arrangement they added upwards of 200 new... Dec. 1, 2008 10:22 AM Reads: 618 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Besides SUSE and its own brand of Linux, rPath is now supporting the Ubuntu and CentOS Linux operating systems as part of its rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. The move broadens the start-up’s options for deploying and managing applications in traditional, virtualized... Dec. 1, 2008 10:04 AM Reads: 241 |
By Maureen O'Gara  SCO filed a notice of appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver Tuesday. Yes, miracle of miracles it finally got a final judgment out of Utah District Court Judge Dale Kimball. That's the hall pass it needs to challenge his devastating summary judgme... Nov. 27, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,483 Replies: 5 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Fedora 10 is out and about. Fedora of course is Red Hat's freebie community OS and testbed for coming attractions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new rev is supposed to have substantial virtualization improvements for remotely installing and managing storage provisioning and includes ... Nov. 26, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 737 |
By Virtualization News Desk The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 10 features numerous leading-edge technologies and continues ... Nov. 26, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 666 |
By Jeff Davis  The open source community includes many early advocates of the recent wave of emerging SOA-related technology projects. Historically, however, open source has sometimes been considered a "late follower," with commercial products first to hit the market, and then followed by "me-too" op... Nov. 26, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 1,179 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  Business.com has announced the availability of CloudBase, a high-performance data warehouse system that scales horizontally on commodity hardware or a cloud computing network. Built on top of a map-reduce architecture, this technology enables business analysts using ANSI SQL to direct... Nov. 24, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 982 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Transmeta, the uppity microprocessor wannabe that pushed Intel to create low-power chips before Intel crushed it, is getting bought by Novafora Inc for $255.6 million in cash, roughly what Transmeta has in the bank thanks largely to an IP licensing deal with Intel. Novafora is a fab-le... Nov. 21, 2008 01:40 PM Reads: 792 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Hadoop, an open source implementation of map/reduce, has garnered tremendous momentum in large scale data processing, marting, and on occasion warehousing. This session will examine: The current state and industry adoption of Hadoop and cloud-based data processing; The programming mode... Nov. 21, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 898 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Emulex has announced that it will offer Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) for use with OpenSolaris’ Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target (COMSTAR), thereby providing end-to-end Fibre Channel and FCoE support wit... Nov. 19, 2008 06:15 AM Reads: 683 |
By BlackBerry News Desk The BlackBerryR Technical Webcast Series is designed to help BlackBerry administrators better manage and leverage the capabilities of their BlackBerry solution. Each webcast is packed with detailed technical information, covering topics that are relevant to you. Our on-demand webcasts ... Nov. 18, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 397 |
By BlackBerry News Desk The BlackBerry Technical Seminar is back this fall with breakthrough new sessions you won’t want to miss! Managing and extending applications to your mobile users, overcoming development hurdles; and leveraging mobile technology to create new opportunities for your business – if it... Nov. 18, 2008 07:00 AM Reads: 509 |
By iPhone News Desk Lightstreamer is a software product for delivering real-time textual data to any kind of application through the Internet. Banks and online-gaming companies typically use it to dispatch live updates to their Web pages or Flex applications, supporting high numbers of parallel connection... Nov. 14, 2008 07:45 PM Reads: 592 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Zenoss has rolled a new version of its a product suite. In addition to other enhancements, the new release adds native VMware monitoring across the full virtualization infrastructure life cycle. This latest version, Zenoss 2.3, now enables enterprise IT staff and cloud services provide... Nov. 12, 2008 09:50 AM Reads: 332 |
By Java News Desk SpringSource and Terracotta have announced a comprehensive partnership to simplify the development and deployment of enterprise Java applications and reduce the costs of their scale-out, tuning, and ongoing operations. Under terms of the agreement, SpringSource and Terracotta are tight... Nov. 10, 2008 07:30 PM Reads: 758 |
By Maureen O'Gara  IBM and Sun, like ODF drug dealers trying to poison Microsoft Office, have launched the OpenDocument Format Toolkit Union, a new open source software community project to spread the toxin to business, the main Office constituency and source of mucho bucks for Microsoft. Sun is kicking ... Nov. 8, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 1,459 |
By Maureen O'Gara  By the end of the month Red Hat will release JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1, which are supposed give it more skin in the enterprise SOA game. The company said the new revs feature cooperative support and allow for remote monitoring and management of ... Nov. 7, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 1,373 Replies: 1 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk ONE-NET has announced that Spansion has joined the ONE-NET open-source wireless networking alliance. Spansion joins a growing list of companies supporting the ONE-NET wireless standard. The ONE-NET wireless standard is an open source, multi-vendor wireless control protocol. Even though... Nov. 6, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 637 |
By Java News Desk Sun Microsystems has announced the immediate availability and support of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, a lightweight Web application server that is based on a modular OSGi architecture. Sun is also providing a preview of features that will be available in the u... Nov. 6, 2008 01:45 PM Reads: 1,034 |
By Maureen O'Gara  One gets a bit suspicious when an operation like OpenOffice.com reports that its servers were swamped and knocked offline for days by the pressing demand for the first formal release of its native open source application suite for Mac OS X. It had no idea how many people would want to ... Nov. 6, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 1,081 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Open-Xchange has closed a Series B round of venture funding totaling $9 million. The company will use the funds to further develop its software and continue expanding its business in the U.S., Europe and emerging markets. The round was led by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, a Mun... Nov. 4, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 656 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk IBM, Sun Microsystems and Sine Nomine Associates have announced the availability of operating system prototype code based on OpenSolaris Operating System, running on an IBM System z mainframe, to the global OpenSolaris community. The prototype was completed by SNA with equipment and fi... Nov. 3, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 773 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Sun Microsystems has announced the launch of two social networking portals designed to connect the global education community. The new EduConnection.org community serves Sun’s education sector customers, while Open Source University Meetup caters to students interested in open source... Oct. 30, 2008 11:15 PM Reads: 861 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The newly reconstituted AMD is looking for a new CFO. Its current CFO Bob Rivet has been named chief operations and administrative officer, basically replacing Dirk Meyer, now CEO, who used to be COO before his apotheosis. In his new role, Rivet, 54, will be responsible for the company... Oct. 30, 2008 07:00 PM Reads: 738 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Continuent has announced that it is co-operating with Miracle Finland Oy in customer installation, tuning and administration of Continuent’s Tungsten Replicator for Oracle. The Continuent Tungsten for Oracle is designed to Replicate between Oracle database instances (Express, SE1, SE... Oct. 30, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 573 |
By Joe Ruck  Enterprise software is under attack. Traditional infrastructure players like BEA are seeing their core products replaced with free open source projects, while traditional application vendors like Oracle/Siebel are being displaced by SaaS. But is this a slugfest with only one winner? Wi... Oct. 29, 2008 06:30 PM Reads: 1,287 Replies: 2 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Alfresco Software has announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0. The latest certified build adds Alfresco Share, a new collaborative content solution, a draft implementation of CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support to Alfresco’s innovativ... Oct. 29, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 696 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk XAware has announced its upgraded support for Eclipse 3.4. This enhancement gives developers and architects the ability to use the latest version of the Eclipse development environment as they create composite data services for service-oriented architecture (SOA), rich Internet applica... Oct. 29, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 628 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Jitterbit has announced its relationship with Infowelders, a certified salesforce.com implementation partner.
The partnership between Jitterbit and Infowelders is designed to provide customers valuable implementation resources in tackling integrations between salesforce.com and other... Oct. 29, 2008 01:45 PM Reads: 547 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk "Cloud computing environments require the performance and scalability to handle the heaviest user traffic peaks while balancing cost and power concerns," said Margaret Lewis, director, Commercial Software and Solutions, AMD, which is providing its Quad Core AMD Opteron processor for Wi... Oct. 28, 2008 10:30 PM Reads: 811 |
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