Sun Microsystems today said it has completed its $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL and will move aggressively to acquire other open source vendors.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 26, 2008
One of the great things about virtualization is that it makes it incredibly easy to add a new server -- or 10, or 100 new servers.
- By Keith Ward
- February 25, 2008
While Microsoft's announcement yesterday that it will publish key APIs and share its communications protocols was met with skepticism by the European Commission and other critics, .NET developers we talked with welcomed the step that Redmond had defiantly resisted until now.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 22, 2008
Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.
- By James E. Powell
- February 21, 2008
Microsoft Corp. to give away Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server Standard and other software to college students worldwide.
- By Becky Nagel
- February 19, 2008
A fully baked beta release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is now available for testing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 19, 2008
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 13, 2008
Today at Microsoft's Office System Developer Conference (OSDC) in San Jose, Calif., Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates commented on what he thinks Yahoo got right -- and wrong -- just as Yahoo formally rejected the Redmond, Wash.-based company's initial offer.
- By Becky Nagel
- February 11, 2008
In a move that could help deliver single sign-on to the masses, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined a consortium that backs a common federated identity specification.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 08, 2008
Essential Business Server makes its debut in the wake of the Windows 2008 launch wave. Watch the sales roll in.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 01, 2008
A survey released by Compuware Corporation and the Ponemon Institute shows "an overwhelming majority of organizations surveyed risk compromising critical information by using actual customer data for the development and testing of applications."
- By James E. Powell
- February 01, 2008
Microsoft today has made a surprise bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. for a $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over the company's closing share price Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 01, 2008
Once left for dead, Sybase Inc. has shored up its key tools and mobile businesses, while it remains a factor in a database market dominated by Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2008
Microsoft recently unveiled a new site for developers to download and share Microsoft-related code samples.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 29, 2008
Despite public confidence that SQL Server 2008 would ship by the end of June, Microsoft today indicated it probably is more likely to arrive toward the end of the year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 25, 2008