Governance is currently a key topic for many IT functions. Its definition varies, but its key themes are true for all companies: effectiveness, efficiency, and reliability. Business value and risk mitigation are also at its center and represent a significant part of enterprise governan...

Red Bend Software and Trolltech announced they have formed a partnership to bring over-the-air software component management to Linux mobile phones that use Trolltech's Qtopia application platform.

CommuniGate Systems announced the addition of CalDAV support to its industry leading Unified Communications platform. The CalDAV standard lets users share scheduling resources and calendar events to boost collaboration and productivity throughout the enterprise. As a standards-based so...

LynuxWorks announced that it is working with Wabtec Corporation on a technology-based product for the rail industry. Wabtec, which manufactures a wide range of products for the rail and transit industry, selected LynuxWorks' industry-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) products b...

Qosmos announced their ability to deliver Qosmos Qoala software suite ready-to-run on Bivio Networks' B2000 Series DPI platforms. Qosmos Qoala is a Software Development Kit (SDK) incorporating advanced Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) features and a comprehensive library of protocol and ap...

Promise Technology announced that Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystems will support Mac OS X Leopard and Final Cut Studio in select configurations to be available at a later date through selected sales channels.

IGEL Technology announced its latest Linux firmware upgrade enhancing the broadest and most powerful range of thin clients on the market. The firmware delivers enhanced security through smartcard authentication of RDP sessions with the inclusion of the new Winconnect RDP client. When c...

For BEA, I was hoping they would succeed at combining the power of JRockit with AquaLogic to build scalable workflow (a la BPM) services. Instead, we users and developers will be waiting for years to see WebLogic and AquaLogic integrated into the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. For MyS...

Wind River announced that the LiMo Foundation has selected Wind River's commercial Linux technology as the foundation for its Common Integration Environment (CIE). The CIE solution, including Wind River's build and configuration system with layers, mobile-optimized kernel distribution,...

CAD Schroer Group (CSG) announced the latest release of its free personal use version of the powerful MEDUSA4 design automation suite, available for Windows and six different Linux distributions. The industry-proven 2D/3D CAD solution now also includes a Sheet Metal Design module, and ...

Efforts to modernize enterprise infrastructure have never been more complex. While the need is certainly there on multiple fronts - competitive edge, cost savings and new business initiatives, to name just a few - new hurdles seem to pop up no matter where an IT administrator might loo...

The introduction of Linux into the data center has brought with it the promise of a new level of cost-efficiency and flexibility for enterprise data center environments. IT professionals prefer Linux for their data centers because it's highly customizable and can be adapted to address ...

There's a great deal of interest in open source software development these days. While the concept of open source (if not the name itself) is hardly new - people have been freely sharing source code since the beginning of the computer industry - the convergence of commercial interest i...

Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei and Purple Labs have joined the LiMo Foundation started a year ago by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone to deliver a mobile Linux platform. Said platform would perforce have to compete against t...

Data corruption is an insidious problem in storage. While there are many forms of corruption, there are also many ways to prevent them. For example, enterprise class servers use error checking and correcting caches and memory to protect against single and double bit errors. System buse...

Kevin Carmony, recently-resigned CEO for desktop Linux vendor Linspire, unveiled his new venture, Dating DNA, LLC. Dating DNA provides free and open Web Services which bring 1-click compatibility scoring and other sophisticated dating features to Social Networking sites such as MySpace...

Although it has not yet hopped on the server virtualization bandwagon, the New York Stock Exchange - as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year - is betting big on Linux. NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow told a reporter that the NYSE is investing h...

In a surprise move Thursday Red Hat named the former COO of Delta Airlines Jim Whitehurst president and CEO, replacing Matthew Szulik who remains chairman. Szulik said he was stepping down after almost 10 years with the company because of serious health issues with his family that he h...

Dell said Tuesday morning that it would start buying back a gargantuan $10 billion worth of its stock. To no avail. Its price dropped to below where it was in January before Michael Dell returned as CEO, recouping only a little since then. Dell has $15 billion in the bank and generates...

A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any...

The Linux Foundation, currently home to Linus Torvalds, has named Ted Ts'o, the Linux filesystem maintainer and very first Linux kernel developer in North America, a Fellow and chief platform strategist. Shifting over from IBM where he led the creation of an enterprise-level real-time ...

How Christmas-y! Nudged, it would appear, by China - well, at least it's doing something - the English-language Korean trade press reports that North and South Korea agreed last week at a conference in China to develop a single version of Linux tentatively called Hana Linux and set sta...

For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ...

Likewise Software, formerly Centeris, has released Likewise Open, an open source community project that enables core Active Directory authentication for Linux systems by joining them to Active Directory domains. Likewise Open provides organizations that are struggling with homegrown an...

A critical part of Sun's virtualization portfolio, Sun xVM Ops Center reduces datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool. Sun xVM Ops Center helps simplify discovery, monitoring, operating system provisioning, com...

Software virtualization is the ability to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same computer. The basic premise is that for most of the day your server is basically idle and the CPU and memory are not tasked with processes all day long, the server has excess capacity ...

The world's second-largest retailer after Wal-Mart Carrefour has stores practically everywhere; 5,832 in Europe alone so 365 is just a drop in the bucket. With the Carrefour deal, its first European mass merchandiser, Dell counts 10,000 shops worldwide carrying its wares including Stap...

Red Hat said Monday that the public beta of its operating system on the newfangled Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was available. Amazon has taken to peddling resizable time, utility-style, on its own data center to other people and Red Hat arranged for its customers to run their ce...

My money is on targeting iPhones and WM devices until Android actually shows up live and in the wild on more than 500,000 devices. Also, don't be fooled about the Android developer challenge. That's not $10million in prize money, that's a $10 million bribe in order to obtain the critic...

Open source-based software developer Novell has released the new version of Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, the open source enterprise operating system, to cater to the financial market. According to Novell, the new version of Suse includes enterprise open source technologies and f...

Python, the open source programming language that sees itself as an alternative to Java and brags about being used at Google, Industrial Light & Magic and NASA, will be having its PyCon user conference March 14-16 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel. Python creator Guido van Rossu...

'Our continuing support commitment has been amply demonstrated with all of our previous acquisitions, including PeopleSoft and Siebel. BEA will be no different,' he said. 'The acquisition of BEA by Oracle will enable an increase in engineering resources that will in turn accelerate the...

Oracle owns PeopleSoft and JD Edwards; they own SleepyCat; they own BEA; and of course they have their own enterprise database. This means they have the stack from top to bottom, with the exception of an operating system. They can take the CRM and banking and insurance and end-user app...

Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remember Larry's PeopleSoft h...

After Google's Android announcement, at least four big guys should be irritated: Sun Microsystems, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft.Google approaches telephony from the open source side - Linux-based platform, uses Java but does not care about sticking to Java ME - they are planning to use f...

Oracle has announced Oracle VM, server virtualization software that supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM. Customers have a single point of support f...

David Patrick, CEO of Ximian before it was sold to Novell in 2003 and then general manager of Novell's Linux, NetWare and open source operation, has turned up as CEO of Xkoto, a clustered grid-scale database load balancing start-up. Coincidently, the company just got a $7.5 million B r...

Novell is closing down its direct sales offices in Israel, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and Turkey to focus on 10 larger European countries as part of a yearlong shift to a more indirect approach globally that it signaled last December. Novell says it was largely partner-led in these co...

I installed Ubuntu on the Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu installed in 15 minutes - 49 for Windows XP and 125 for Windows Vista. Ubuntu's desktop came right up. I opened the pre-installed Firefox browser and found I could browse the Web immediately. Ubuntu installed a network adaptor for the To...

Red Hat, which has made its fortune displacing Solaris, is now going to collaborate with Sun to advance open source Java, which Red Hat is particularly partial to given its JBoss investment. This is the third time this year that Sun has laid down with one of its enemies. It also cut d...