Saturday | 5 July, 2008
Stories by: Chris Kanaracus
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Long-awaited JBoss AS 5.0 moves closer to release date 03/07/2008 08:24:10
The first release candidate of Red Hat's long-brewing JBoss Application Server 5.0 will be available imminently, according to a blog post by Sacha Labourey, chief technology officer of Red Hat's JBoss division. - +
Salesforce's e-commerce engine favoring 'native' apps 01/07/2008 09:22:44
Salesforce is developing an e-commerce engine called Force.com Checkout, but for now only "native" applications that are built on its Force.com development platform -- as opposed to ones developed with other tools and then integrated with Salesforce -- can join the pilot program. - +
IDC: Oracle maintains lead in database market 30/06/2008 08:24:16
The worldwide relational database management systems market saw a 12.6 percent growth spike in 2007 to US$18.8 billion compared to $16.7 billion in 2006, according to IDC. - +
Sun announces 'unlimited' GlassFish-MySQL bundle 30/06/2008 07:06:19
Sun Microsystems on Friday announced a database and application-server package that allows unlimited deployments for a fixed annual rate, positioning the offer as a lower-cost alternative to competing vendors like Oracle. - +
Oracle: Damages in SAP-TN suit could be at least $1 billion 27/06/2008 08:32:51
Attorneys representing Oracle in the company's lawsuit against rival SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary have for the first time publicly put a dollar figure -- "likely" $1 billion or more -- on the damages they believe the enterprise software maker deserves. - +
Progress buys Iona for SOA wares 26/06/2008 09:10:35
Progress Software is buying fellow SOA (service oriented architecture) infrastructure vendor Iona Technologies for about US$162 million, or $106 million net of cash and marketable securities. - +
Oracle posts strong Q4, full-year results 26/06/2008 10:21:31
Showing strong growth amid a worldwide economic downturn, Oracle on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter revenues of US$7.2 billion, a 24 percent rise compared to the same quarter last year, and total revenue for fiscal 2008 of $22.4 billion. - +
Gmail to support million-plus NSW students 25/06/2008 12:56:37
Google is close to landing a contract with the NSW Department of Education and Training to support 1.3 million students with Gmail. - +
Linux kernel developers: Say no to closed-source modules 24/06/2008 09:06:04
More than 135 Linux kernel developers have signed a document in protest of vendors that create closed-source code modules for the kernel, calling the practice "harmful and undesirable." - +
Free service tracks Amazon cloud's performance 24/06/2008 11:54:39
Customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) can now get free, real-time performance metrics through a site called CloudStatus. - +
Oracle makes another insurance software buy 24/06/2008 10:39:08
In another move to beef up its strategy in the insurance sector, Oracle has bought Skywire Software's application business for an undisclosed sum, the company announced Monday.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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