Stories about: IFS

Three weeks ago, LWN looked at the renewed interest in dynamic tracing, with an emphasis on SystemTap. Tracing is a perennial presence on end-user wishlists; it remains a handy tool for companies like Sun Microsystems, which wish to show that their offerings (Solaris, for example) are superior to Linux. It is not surprising that there is a lot of interest in tracing implementations for Linux; the main surprise is that, after all this time, Linux still does not have a top-quality answer to DTrace - though, arguably, Linux had a working tracing mechanism long before DTrace made its appearance.

As billionaire investor Carl Icahn gears up for a proxy fight with Yahoo at its July 3 shareholders' meeting, the question is, can he win? And if he does win, will he be able to persuade Yahoo's jilted suitor, Microsoft, to reconsider its acquisition bid?

The spotlight falls on Fairport, Satsuma, Tru Life Anatomy, Interactive Freight Services, Pacific Teleports, PocketPhrase

The private equity firm that has offered to pump up to US$100 million into SCO thinks court rulings against the vendor in its highly publicized Unix copyright lawsuits "don't make any sense" and it believes those rulings can be reversed on appeal to a higher court.

A new report from Forrester Research declares that the wave of mega-acquisitions in the software industry is over for now, though big vendors will continue to snap up smaller firms as they round out their portfolios.

I have two suggestions in regards to keeping your data safe: First, start encrypting your backups, at least those that you know will travel. No ifs, no buts, just do it. The second suggestion? See suggestion No. 1.

The long battle of "thin versus fat" has commenced. From all appearances, Google is angling to end Microsoft's hegemony by disrupting fat client computing on the desktop. The target: none other than Microsoft Office. The weapon of choice: browser-based, thin client applications.

They can send a man to the moon (or at least they could 40 years ago). Why can't they make a tiny computer people want to buy?

Enterprise application firm, IFS, has appointed Tony Lorge as Asia Pacific president and Francois Wethmar as A/NZ managing director of Australia.

Changes to Microsoft's Vista licensing. IBM's midrange short on security controls. Former CA executives face sentencing and prison. PeopleSoft cofounder launches hosted ERP offering.

As Microsoft prepares to release Windows Vista to manufacturing next week and make it available to corporate users at the end of the month, the debate is ratcheting up over how much money -- if any -- companies could save by upgrading to the new operating system.