The open source community hit a milestone in improving software project management with a release on Aug. 1 of Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) version 1.2. The framework now includes version 1.2 of the EPF Composer authoring tool, as well as version 1.0 of the group's first process, known as the Open Unified Process (OpenUP).
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 16, 2007
Entrigue Systems will release Script Start, a Windows logon scripting tool, free of charge to open source developers in September. The aim is to spur custom development of Script Start -- something for which its users have been clamoring, according to Entrigue President Jon McDonald.
- By David Kopf
- August 16, 2007
Two longtime rivals in computing, IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., plan to cooperate on some server technologies, a move that could put pressure on their joint competitor Hewlett-Packard Co.
- By The Associated Press
- August 16, 2007
Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software-distribution partnership, Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft Corp. and its ubiquitous Office software.
- By The Associated Press
- August 16, 2007
Citrix Systems is buying XenSource Inc. for $500 million, marking the second big deal this week in thte virtualization segment.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
Apple Inc. has dropped "Computer" from its name, but its computer business is still growing, even if the iPod player is the company's real star.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
The nation's emergency communication system is inadequate, and the government has come up with a solution -- a nationwide wireless broadband network that will operate on a highly valuable portion of the publicly owned airwaves.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
VMware Inc.'s shares soared by 76 percent in their stock market debut Tuesday, reflecting a belief that the software maker is on the leading edge of a trend.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices yesterday published a proposed specification for a new class of hardware extensions designed to increase the performance of applications running in multicore environments.
- By John K. Waters
- August 15, 2007
Those who suggest that Sun Microsystems' Project Indiana is about making the Solaris operating system more Linux-like are missing the point, said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief OS platform strategist. Headlines such as "Sun Hopes for Linux-like Solaris" and "Sun OpenSolaris To Become More Linux-like," drive him crazy.
- By John K. Waters
- August 15, 2007
Another LinuxWorld San Francisco has come and gone. The event combined LinuxWorld with the inaugural Next Generation Data Center show, drawing an estimated 11,000 attendees last week.
- By John K. Waters
- August 14, 2007
Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- August 14, 2007
The recently launched Oracle 11g database server is now shipping but today's release announcement came with a twist: Some of the new features come at an additional cost.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 14, 2007
Exchange Server 2007 reached the next step in its lifecycle with a community technology preview (CTP) of its first service pack.
- By Keith Ward
- August 14, 2007
Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 14, 2007
In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business.
- By The Associated Press
- August 13, 2007
Microsoft Corp. on Monday gave a simple reason why its prototype for beaming high-speed Internet service over unused television airways failed a government test: the device was broken.
- By The Associated Press
- August 13, 2007
Microsoft has announced that it is releasing another version of XP Professional because it's run out of product keys.
- By Keith Ward
- August 13, 2007
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that Sync, its in-car communication and entertainment system developed with Microsoft Corp., will cost $395 as an option when it debuts this fall on the Ford Focus, Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX.
- By The Associated Press
- August 10, 2007
To help the pharmaceutical industry combat drug counterfeiting, IBM is launching an electronic pedigree system Thursday that tracks medications through the supply chain until they reach consumers.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007