Novell Inc. has appointed Susan Heystee, recently named vice president and general manager for Global Strategic Partners, to manage the interoperability relationship it announced with Microsoft in early November.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 30, 2006
The digital ink is hardly dry on Microsoft's peace agreement with Novell, but already the outlines of the deal are starting to blur.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 21, 2006
Microsoft has formed a cross-industry group of software and hardware vendors aimed at enhancing interoperability with its software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 15, 2006
Adobe Systems Inc. is contributing some of the computer code behind its widely used Flash player to the Mozilla Foundation so that it can be improved upon and blended into an upcoming version of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.
- By The Associated Press
- November 07, 2006
Analysis: Once bitter rivals now working on a peaceful relationship in business and desktop realms.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- November 03, 2006
Microsoft Corp. has embraced Novell Inc.'s open-source software platform, forming a technological truce between two longtime antagonists who want to make it easier for the still-dominant Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together.
- By The Associated Press
- November 02, 2006
Longtime rivals will work to make Windows and Linux work more smoothly for business customers.
- By The Associated Press
- November 02, 2006
Microsoft and Zend Technologies are joining forces to improve the performance of PHP-based applications running on Windows Server 2003, the two companies disclosed on Tuesday.
- By John K. Waters
- November 02, 2006
It's not yet three years old, but Dynamics partner Iteration2 has two
U.S. Partner of the Year Awards under its belt, a tribute to its ability
to focus.
- By Paul Desmond
- November 01, 2006
Shares of Red Hat Inc. tumbled nearly 30 percent Thursday as investors abandoned the stock on news that software juggernaut Oracle Corp. will move more aggressively onto Red Hat's turf.
- By The Associated Press
- October 26, 2006
Less than a week after Microsoft shipped the long awaited Internet Explorer 7, it's Mozilla's turn. Final code for Firefox 2 officially became available for download on Tuesday afternoon.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 24, 2006
While the big news is that Microsoft finally began shipping Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP on Wednesday, IE's main browser competitor hit a major milestone of its own just two days before.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 19, 2006
In another example of how mobile gadgets can carry malicious programs, Apple Computer Inc. said a fraction of its iPod players sold in the past month contained a virus that affects Windows systems.
- By The Associated Press
- October 19, 2006
Apple Computer Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 27 percent, well past analyst expectations, boosted by sizzling sales of its iPod music players and Macintosh computers.
- By The Associated Press
- October 18, 2006
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday software developers would no longer need to pay or license technology it provides to help one computer run multiple operating systems at the same time.
- By The Associated Press
- October 17, 2006
The $100 laptops planned for children around the world might turn out to be as revolutionary for their security measures as for their low-cost economics.
- By The Associated Press
- October 06, 2006
Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs apologized Wednesday for the company's past stock-option practices after a three-month internal investigation raised concerns over how some grants were handled between 1997 and 2002.
- By The Associated Press
- October 05, 2006
IBM Corp. hopes a new effort to simplify programming for mainframe computers helps keep those warhorses competitive.
- By The Associated Press
- October 04, 2006
Borland says it is readying a new application lifecycle quality management (LQM) solution that is based on its existing Caliber products as well as two sets of products it recently acquired.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 04, 2006
Shares of software maker Red Hat Inc. plummeted Wednesday, a day after the company said its second-quarter profit slipped 34 percent on stock compensation expenses.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2006