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At the request of the Software Freedom Law Center, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Thursday that it will re-examine a patent held by e-learning software company Blackboard. The Software Freedom Law Center, an open source software group, made its request in November on behalf of three...

Themis Computer announced Thursday a joint project with Terra Soft Solutions to develop a complete Linux distribution to run on the TPPC64, Themis' new line of 6U VMEbus single board computers based on the IBM PowerPC 970FX superscalar RISC processor. The TPPC64 is a high-end computer built around a...

In Part 1 of this series, I talked a bit about how COBOL is everywhere. From telephones to credit cards to supermarket checkouts to ATMs -- sometime during the day, just about everyone touches COBOL. They don't see it directly, but drivers don't see under the hood while they're driving either. COBOL...

Microsoft has just released its ASP .NET AJAX 1.0, a free tool that lets developers create standards-compliant Web applications based on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax. The most ubiquitous Ajax-based applications, for example, are Google Maps and Gmail, which let users interact with them w...

Microsoft and Novell are proudly announcing the biggest proof-point to date that their groundbreaking alliance to work together for the benefit of their customers has real traction: Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is gearing up to take advantage of Microsoft and Novell's collaboration and in...

Centeris released on Tuesday a product that lets network administrators manage multiple environments on the same computer. Likewise Identify 3.0 is a cross-platform application that joins Linux and Unix machines to a Windows Active Directory. This major upgrade extends directories to all of the stru...

Two main representatives of the Linux community -- Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group -- have merged to form the Linux Foundation. The group is supported by several major firms, including Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, NEC, Novell and Oracle, which serve as foundin...

GroundWork Open Source develops open source systems and network management software. The company melds together over 180 open source projects, including Cacti, Ganglia, NeDi and Nagios, into a comprehensive, fully supported IT infrastructure and networking monitoring solution. Datacenters want to ge...

Sun Microsystems is gunning for Red Hat, with updated support pricing in conjunction with an update of its Solaris 10 operating system, the company announced Tuesday. The updated operating system, open source Solaris 10 11/06, comes with support subscriptions at what Sun describes as half the price ...

It's no secret that Linux at the server level is growing fast in the business world. It's stable, it's infinitely customizable, it has the kind of support that an enterprise demands and its return on investment is amazing to people more accustomed to the costs of other approaches. So, you find it ev...

Adobe Systems on Wednesday released Flash Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux open source operating systems. Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy rich Internet applications on the Linux platform using ...

Chances are that one or more of your consumer products uses the Linux operating system. In order to find out, you'll have to look at the fine print. Manufacturers do not openly advertise with labels announcing "Linux Inside." Linux has steadily become the operating system of choice by manufacturers ...

Mobile security solutions firm Columbitech has announced support for Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10. The added support combines Columbitech Wireless VPN with Suse Linux Enterprise Server to enable customers to automatically configure any computer as a VPN server and firewall. The combination ...

"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The question seemingly has no real answer, and biologists can argue either reply ad nauseam. The computer world has an equally pervasive question that cannot provide a single answer: "What are the top three Linux distributions?" Ask any collection of Linux...

A group founded to develop and distribute ultra low-cost computers to children in developing countries is mulling possible commercial outlets for their machines, including using eBay as an inexpensive sales channel. The One Laptop Per Child project, the brain child of Nicholas Negroponte, hopes to s...