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Sun Microsystems, Secunia, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and other security agencies have issued alerts for a somewhat oxymoronic telnet vulnerability in the Sun Solaris 10 operating system. The vulnerability is oxymoronic because, while it's possible for a hacker to gain poten...

As the five versions of Microsoft Windows' new Vista operating system sit on store shelves, current Windows users are taking their time deciding if they will upgrade from Windows XP or buy new computers with Vista installed. The push for buying Windows Vista follows an epidemic of computer viruses, ...

IBM is billing its new Open Client Solution as an "alternative to vendor lock-in" for user desktop operating systems. The Open Client Solution has two basic goals. One is to let organizations replace Microsoft Windows-based PCs in favor of Linux or Mac OS X-based desktops. The other is to let busine...

AlterPoint is a network configuration management provider that recently joined the open source ranks with the launch of its ZipTie community and are now members of the Open Management Consortium. The goal of ZipTie is to create a community that will advance network management beyond the limitations ...

Sun Microsystems is releasing a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003 that will provide a translation between the file format and OpenDocument Format for Office Applications, according to the company. The early access version of the ODF plug-in allows for the seamless two-way conversion of Microsoft Off...

In recent years, smaller businesses have often struggled between managing costs and finding tailored services suited to help efficiently manage their information technology systems, but a recent surge in vendors targeting the small to medium-size market has virtualization right around the corner. VM...

In the years leading up to the dot-com bust, the Internet was unchartered turf to which countless entrepreneurs flocked in pursuit of easy money. Just like the Gold Rush of the Old West in the 1800s, the dot-com business surge had its fling and then fell off. Just like the rise of the Old West to a ...

Mozilla, the nonprofit organization that created the open source Firefox browser -- the chief competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer -- is setting up shop in China in the hope of claiming a sizable chunk of the world's second-largest Internet market. Firefox, a popular browser among techies, is...

Microsoft's self-proclaimed commitment to open standards became more tangible Thursday when it released the first Open XML translator for Word. Version 1.0 of the translator, which is a free, downloadable add-on to the word processor, allows users to convert Office Open XML documents into the OpenDo...

The Linux community is planning to improve the position of the open source operating system by addressing one of the more vexing barriers slowing mainstream adoption: Linux-compatible device drivers. Developers are now offering to provide hardware vendors with the necessary drivers for free. Drivers...

PSA Peugeot Citroen and open source software giant Novell have signed a multiyear contract that will deploy the Linux operating system on thousands of company computers that already run Windows, Novell announced Tuesday at the Solutions Linux 2007 show in Paris. The French car manufacturing company ...

Open source database developer MySQL has launched an attack on the enterprise database business. The company on Tuesday revealed a new enterprise subscription pricing strategy that lets organizations deploy an unlimited number of MySQL databases in their environment and still get enterprise-class le...

Some TomTom satellite navigation systems installed in cars might actually be steering drivers in the wrong direction -- at least when it comes to navigating their PCs. That is because a "small number" of TomTom Go 910 satellite navigation devices were shipped last year with two Windows viruses prein...

The open source Bandit and Eclipse Higgins projects, both of which are working toward providing an open and consistent approach to identity management, have announced they have created a reference application that showcases open source identity services that interoperate with the Microsoft Windows C...

Browser usage numbers for 2006 are beginning to appear on the Web, and for the first time in many moons the market share of Microsoft's dominant offering, Internet Explorer, has dipped below 80 percent. While Internet Explorer's star was sinking, its chief competitor's, Mozilla Firefox, was ascendin...