MuleSource Inc. has started  a Partner Alliance Program based on Mule, an open source enterprise service bus (ESB) solution. The program enables qualified channel  partners to gain access to the Mule customer base.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The CTP release makes it appear increasingly likely that the successor to Windows Server 2003 will be shipped early next year.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- June 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Consumer search giant Google is entering a partnership with Ingram Micro Inc. to distribute the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini, according to a Google blog entry on Wednesday. 
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- June 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Worldwide Partner Group reorganizes for fiscal year 2008.
                    
			            - By Anne  Stuart
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Two Microsoft partners closed deals to join Microsoft or to sell their intellectual property to the software giant.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Results of CDW's survey of 753 U.S. IT decision-makers. 
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Microsoft-Google spitting match over desktop search is getting wetter every day, with Google now claiming that Microsoft's remedies don't go far enough, and Microsoft arguing that Google has a bad case of sour grapes.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Even for a company that's mastered the art of product-launch hoopla, Apple Inc. appears to have pulled out all the stops to propel iPhone hysteria into the stratosphere.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Updates announced at the show included the names for the next versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio and new details about the next releases of Windows Server.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Partners do their best to help customers survive the worst.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    CompTIA has launched a new Customer Service Excellence Program (CSEP) for companies with more than 100 IT service representatives.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Terracotta has bolstered its clustering infrastructure software for Java applications. The company  issued an announcement that its Terracotta 2.4 solution, released in May of  this year, now supports IBM's  WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (CE), which is an open  source enterprise server solution.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A federal judge has sided with Microsoft in Google's most recent complaint that Microsoft remedies to open Vista search up to competitors don't go far enough.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 23 percent as the business software maker harvested more sales from the crop of customers picked up in a $25 billion shopping spree that has buried much of its competition.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- June 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Database, application and Windows-management solutions provider Quest  Software will acquire ScriptLogic, a provider of Windows-based  network management solutions, for roughly $90 million in cash.
                    
			            - By David  Kopf
- June 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Tidal Software has released the latest version of its performance monitoring solution that  maps applications, traces business processes and tracks service-level  agreements in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New Internet addresses, including those entirely in foreign languages, are under review by a key oversight agency, although meetings this week in Puerto Rico are likely to conclude with more questions.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- June 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Shipping next month, a maintenance update for Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Real Time will  enhance the operating system's performance, incorporate high-availability  storage and processor support, and provide support for the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)  1.2 server and storage connectivity standard.
                    
			            - By David  Kopf
- June 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Composite Software is releasing version 4.5 of its Java-based Composite Information Server (CIS) product. In addition, the company is introducing a new product that works with its server to  help scale data service deployments called Composite Active Cluster.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Unless there's a pressing need in your environment, you might want to hold off on installing the beta of Apple's Safari browser for Windows, as every day seems to bring a new bug report.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- June 25, 2007