Saturday | 5 July, 2008
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15 turning points in tech history 10/06/2008 10:52:22
Imagine how different the computing world would be if IBM had used proprietary chips in the original PC, rather than off-the-shelf components. The PC clone market would never have happened, and IBM, rather than Microsoft, might have emerged as the leading company of the computer revolution. - +
Microsoft's embrace of ODF cautiously welcomed 23/05/2008 08:24:42
Microsoft's support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) could mean greater opportunities for software makers already using the format, observers said Thursday. - +
The state of open source: Eric S. Raymond, open source advocate 08/04/2008 12:31:31
Notorious open source advocate and author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond brings colorful acumen to any open source discussion. Here's how Raymond views the continually evolving open source landscape. - +
Report: Number of GPL v3 projects tops 2,000 01/04/2008 07:39:39
The number of open-source projects that use the GNU General Public License Version 3 has grown to more than 2,000, according to Palamida, which sells software and services for tracking open-source code within a customer's code base. - +
The state of open source: Missteps and lessons learned 27/03/2008 10:17:22
11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead. - +
Interview with Carlo Piana 10/03/2008 10:20:31
The European Union's 899-million-euro antitrust fine is the result of a continuous effort by the European Commission dating back to 2000. Carlo Piana, a partner at the Milan law firm Studio Legale Tamos Piana & Partners, represented the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Samba project in the case. - +
Don't use Emacs, says Java's father 04/03/2008 11:56:23
Known in the development world as the father of Java, Sun Microsystems' vice president and fellow James Gosling has urged coders to stop using the antiquated Emacs text editor and move to a more modern IDE like Sun's own open source NetBeans. - +
EU fines Microsoft another 899 million euros for antitrust abuse 28/02/2008 07:44:08
The European Commission fined Microsoft a massive 899 million euros (US$1.3 billion) for continued failure to honor the 2004 antitrust ruling against it, Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes said Wednesday. - +
Free software, open-source groups skeptical of Microsoft's interoperability efforts 25/02/2008 07:40:11
In a splashy announcement last week, Microsoft touted new efforts to improve the interoperability of its key software products with open source projects and products from other vendors. - +
Microsoft confident leading up to OOXML BRM 19/02/2008 08:48:14
By the end of this month, national standards bodies from around the world will be returning home from the Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva to consider the revised specification for the standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. - +
MySQL needs us to expand, says Sun CEO Schwartz 17/01/2008 07:48:45
Sun Microsystems' decision to buy MySQL AB, the company behind a popular and growing open-source database, for US$1 billion, could allow Sun to to expand MySQL's reach -- and give database giant Oracle something new to worry about. But more immediately, Sun's announcement addresses a problem facing the privately held MySQL, namely, its future.
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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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