Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison told analysts Wednesday that the business software maker is more likely to pursue other takeover targets instead of renewing its recent $6.7 billion bid for rival BEA Systems Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- November 15, 2007
Jump-start your Web projects with MOSS 2007.
- By Andrew Gelina
- November 15, 2007
The Internet is a powerful tool for free expression and dissent, but those freedoms have also helped child pornographers, predators, terrorists and other cybercriminals.
- By The Associated Press
- November 15, 2007
Windows Vista is now on the migration map for most enterprise customers, at least according to one researcher. But it's still getting hammered in the media.
- By Barbara Darrow
- November 14, 2007
Responding to a soon-to-be released study revealing that as many as a half a million database servers aren't protected by firewalls, security experts contend the findings constitute a call to action for security pros and database administrators everywhere.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 14, 2007
Microsoft today launched an updated version of its Windows Embedded CE platform with a release that will let developers build new devices that take advantage of some of the APIs and Web services interfaces available on Windows Vista and the company’s forthcoming Windows Server 2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 14, 2007
Microsoft announced that it plans to release today three non-security updates to Windows Vista, which will coincide with Patch Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 13, 2007
In one of the least stress-inducing Patch Tuesdays in memory, Microsoft released just two security bulletins today, one "Critical" and one "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 13, 2007
European Union antitrust regulators launched an in-depth probe Tuesday into Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion bid for online ad broker DoubleClick, saying an initial investigation showed the deal would raise competition concerns.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2007
Microsoft took the next step into the arena of high-performance computing (HPC) today when it announced the release of the first beta of Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Compute Cluster Server 2003.
- By Keith Ward
- November 13, 2007
The 2002 consent decree that partially governs Microsoft's actions about its monopolistic business practices was originally supposed to expire today. But Redmond is currently locked in a battle with a coalition of states that want to see federal oversight extended for another half-decade.
- By Keith Ward
- November 12, 2007
The next preview of SQL Server 2008 supports spatial data types and a new Resource Governor feature is slated to hit in a week or two.
- By Barbara Darrow
- November 12, 2007
New server OS from Microsoft will come in eight different versions, including Web-specific server and server virtualization product.
- By Keith Ward
- November 12, 2007
Microsoft has unveiled the official name of the server virtualization technology that will be included with Windows Server 2008 early next year: Hyper-V.
- By Keith Ward
- November 12, 2007
Cisco Systems Inc. shares fell more than 6 percent Thursday amid worry that fluctuations in U.S. business orders are hampering its growth.
- By The Associated Press
- November 08, 2007