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An Oracle purchase of business intelligence vendor Hyperion Solutions will likely benefit Oracle, but Hyperion users could find cutbacks in product upgrades and less negotiating leverage, users and analysts said. Oracle Thursday agreed to buy the maker of business intelligence tools for US$3.3 billion.

The scope of the security breach disclosed this week by The TJX Companies is starting to make itself evident, with more than three dozen banks in Massachusetts alone now reporting that cards they issued have been compromised.

Itronix, maker of rugged laptops to the U.S. military and gas giant Transco, has brought out a smaller and lighter version for the consumer market.

The US government, corporate and academic researchers are working on a network that would be able to configure itself, intelligently cache and route data, and allow for fast and reliable sharing of data, all while maintaining military-grade security.

Building tools for users teaches Google how to make a better enterprise search product, the head of the company's enterprise unit told Interop attendees in a keynote address Wednesday in Las Vegas.

The first release of Ubuntu, whose name comes from an African word meaning "humanity to others," arrived in October 2004. Since then, the always-free Linux distribution has won over between two million and three million users worldwide, most of them individual desktop users, according to Canonical Ltd., the privately held firm behind the Ubuntu distribution. At the 4th annual Linux Desktop Summit in San Diego Monday, Jane Silber, the chief operating officer of Conanical sat down to talk to Computerworld's Eric Lai about how the upcoming June release of Ubuntu 6.06 might appeal to corporate users, too.

The first release of Ubuntu, whose name comes from an African word meaning "humanity to others," arrived in October 2004. Since then, the always-free Linux distribution has won over between two million and three million users worldwide, most of them individual desktop users, according to Canonical, the privately held firm behind the Ubuntu distribution.

If you are a router company with as much as 80% market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit?

General Dynamics, in partnership with ADI and Tenix, has won a $97 million contract to design, develop and implement the Australian Defence Force's (ADF) digital communications system.

Like many companies, National Semiconductor is looking for ways to cut costs and has Linux and open source high on its list. While the company already is making the move to Linux, the big project this year is to take a close look at open source databases to figure out where less-expensive data management products could fit in its infrastructure.

An international consortium of 28 defense-oriented companies hopes to develop standards for a network-centric framework that allows a variety of communications and information systems and sensors to interact on a global scale.