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IBM Research will turn over its data search technology to the open-source community, the company said yesterday. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture searches store data not through keywords, but by analyzing the data within documents to see if they fit the concepts and facts the use...

If you ask Ranga Rangachari what the future looks like, he'll tell you it's wide open -- for open source, that is. Rangachari took over as president and CEO of GroundWork Open Source Solutions in July and is prophesying massive change in the enterprise software market. Specifically, he envisions an ...

The idealism behind the Mozilla Foundation -- established in 2003 as a non-profit corporation to promote open-source software -- is giving way this week to financial realism: The company plans to hold a news conference later this afternoon, at 5 p.m. Pacific time at the trade show OSCON 2005, to ann...

Because open-source software is written by individual developers or groups of developers on their own time and with their own resources, the quality of the product is an unknown. To combat that problem, Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation; Intel; O'Reilly CodeZoo, a repository ...

Linux-based messaging vendor Scalix Corporation announced late last week a wireless solution designed to extend its e-mail and calendaring software to mobile devices. Developed in partnership with enterprise mobility solutions vendor Notify Technology Corporation, Scalix's Wireless Solution provides...

Open-source developer Mozilla confirmed yesterday that the next major release of the open-source Firefox browser has not only been delayed, it's also been renamed. What was to be Firefox 1.1 scheduled for release this month is now Firefox 1.5, scheduled for release in September. The beta version of ...

Mozilla on Tuesday released the latest version of its popular Firefox open-source Web browser and its e-mail client. The release marks the second time in eight days the company has issued fixes. Firefox 1.0.6 is a stability update that restores API compatibility for extensions and Web applications t...

A 2002 e-mail claims a SCO Group investigation failed to uncover any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code. Groklaw last week posted an e-mail dated August 2002 penned by SCO Group engineer Michael Davidson. The message allegedly made its way to one of the company's senior vice preside...

Amid ongoing news reports about browser vulnerabilities, an alternative browser maker's promotional Web site fell victim to a hack attack last week. Mozilla's SpreadFirefox.com, a community marketing site, was the target of "unknown remote attackers," according to the site's manager. SpreadFirefox b...

Firefox is close to reaching 10 percent share in the competitive Web browser marketplace, according to the latest data from Web site monitoring firm NetApplications. Firefox market share for browser usage grew to 8.71 percent during the month of June up from 8 percent in May, NetApplications' report...

A 2002 e-mail claims a SCO Group investigation failed to uncover any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code. Groklaw yesterday posted an e-mail dated August 2002 penned by SCO Group engineer Michael Davidson. The message allegedly made its way to one of the company's senior vice preside...

Sun Microsystems earlier this week announced plans to open source its Web site authentication and Web single sign-on (SSO) technologies through the Open Source Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) project. The company's goal is to empower Java technology developers to participate in the evolution of these s...

The Mozilla Foundation yesterday urged users to download the latest security update to Firefox, its popular open-source Web browser. Firefox 1.0.5 is a security update that addresses several bugs and makes improvements to the software's stability, according to Mozilla. In all, the new version addres...

The battle between Microsoft- and Linux-based servers just got a new twist. It is spelled N-O-V-E-L-L. While many IT managers are still arguing about which platform is fundamentally better, Novell is hoping to generate a buzz around its new Open Enterprise Server system. Open Enterprise Server is a ...

Norwegian technology companies Opera Software and Trolltech yesterday announced a strategic partnership agreement to combine their strengths and pursue joint business opportunities. Opera authors the popular browser by the same name. Trolltech develops Linux technologies and cross-platform software....