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Microsoft is disputing that its CardSpace authentication management technology can be hacked despite a research paper that outlines a proof-of-concept attack.

A trio of computer security researchers say they've successfully compromised Microsoft's CardSpace, a technology intended to strengthen the security of personal information on the Internet.

It's deja vu. I got a note from Oracle's Technology media marvel (and soon to be media mother) Rebecca Hahn touting a new study, commissioned by Oracle, from the Performance Engineering Group at Persistent Systems. It's titled "2 Billion Entry Directory Benchmark." I thought I was back in the 90's!

Television over the Internet -- known to many as IPTV -- is the technology landline operators hope will let them compete with cable providers and others in offering bundles of services to customers.

The NDS Group and BSkyB is undertaking a global rollout of video conferencing services across 12 international operations and 18 offices including Sydney, Australia.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is investing in BlueArc and OEMing product from it. The company, needing a new network-attached storage product, is OEM'ing it from BlueArc and calling it the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform. HDS is also investing an unknown amount in BlueArc as well as signing this five-year OEM deal.

When SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel announced his resignation from Novell ast week, he became the third former SuSE executive to leave in the past six months. There was much speculation as to why Mantel left, which was sparked, in part, by the manner of his leaving. He announced his resignation via a Linux e-mail discussion list, claiming that SuSE had changed so much it was no longer the company he had founded 13 years before.

Red Hat has released the Netscape directory technology it acquired last November as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL) in the form of the Fedora Directory Server, mirroring its Fedora Linux project.

Novell's OES (Open Enterprise Server) 1.0 is not actually a new product, but a weaving together of existing ones.

Without question, open source is one of the most important forces in enterprise IT. Apache is still the reigning champion of Web server software. Red Hat and MySQL are two of the most-watched software vendors today. And the success of Linux is such that even Microsoft, once considered the unstoppable juggernaut of the OS market, is being forced to play defense.

Fresh off striking a conciliatory tone with Novell, Microsoft is now going on the offensive with a program to woo NetWare users to the Windows platform.