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Sun CEO: Java Code Coming by Year End

Picking up the pace after somewhat of a piecemeal approach to open sourcing the Java programming language over the last several months, Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Schwartz said the company will open the core Java code to the community by year's end ...

AMD Finalizes ATI Acquisition

After US$5.4 billion dollars and nearly a year of discussions, Advanced Micro Devices finalized its takeover of graphics chip maker ATI, setting the stage for a revived fight with Intel and Nvidia, which becomes the Intel graphics partner by default ...

Oracle Chief Outlines ‘Unbreakable Linux’ Strategy

Amid an enormous amount of buzz, software giant Oracle laid out its plans for Linux at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week, indicating that it will use Red Hat Linux as the foundation for an Oracle-branded "Unbreakable Linux." ...

Novell Seals Suse Pre-Load Deals With PC Makers

Fresh off its deal with PC manufacturer Lenovo for Suse Linux-based ThinkPad mobile workstations, Novell trumpeted deals with four, smaller "whitebox" PC makers to pre-install Suse Linux on their desktop and notebook computers ...

Mozilla Unleashes Firefox 2.0 as IE7 Faceoff Begins

The Mozilla Foundation this week made available its Firefox 2.0 browser, adding enhanced search and security features to its open source alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. That program was updated itself last week, with Redmond's release of IE7 ...

Diebold Code Spill Hikes Electronic Voting Security Concerns

Election technology vendorDiebold suffered a leak of the original software code used to run older versions of its controversial e-voting machines late last week. The incident fueled doubts about thesecurity of e-voting machines in general and raised concerns over voter confidence in the technology as U.S. elections loom just two weeks from now ...

Red Hat’s Reach Into Telecom

Linux leader Red Hat has unveiled an aggressive effort to expand its reach in the telecommunications industry, leveraging its acquired JBoss middleware and open source technology in the space and joining a European community project aimed at fostering an open service telecom infrastructure ...

Adobe Lifts Lid on Flash Player 9 for Linux

Software maker Adobe made available the highly-anticipated Linux version of Flash Player 9 in beta form this week ...

Novell, IBM Sync on Mixed Linux Stack

Novell is bundling more and more software with its Suse Linux distribution, this week announcing a partnership with IBM that puts Big Blue's proprietary WebSphere and DB2-Express C database technologies alongside open source Suse Linux ...

MySQL Enterprise Database – Ready or Not?

Open source database vendorMySQL released new functionality and services under an "enterprise" moniker, reflecting the Swedish company's aggressive strategy for acquiring bigger and better customers ...

Microsoft Opens Virtual Hard Disk Specification

Microsoft has opened its virtualization technology. The software giant made its Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) virtualization specification available under its own Open Specification Promise (OSP) with the aim of encouraging development and increasing interoperability ...

Sun Virtualization Plan to Include Services, Support

Sun Microsystems unveiled this week a unified plan to bring virtualization technology to enterprises. The company said it will offer virtualization technology and related support services, including virtualization technology for its Niagara T1 processor-based Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers; Xen support in Solaris; Life Cycle Services for Virtualization; and extended support for VMware virtualization...

US Military Testing IBM Speech Translation Technology

Cutting-edge voice, speech and translation technology from IBM is getting a critical test from U.S. military personnel who are using the system to speak with Iraqi locals in their own language ...

Massachusetts: State of Open Source

Massachusetts' embrace of open technology, open standards and open source software was simply routine strategic planning, the way Tim Vaverchack tells it. However, the state's stance to strongly consider alternatives to proprietary solutions -- such as the Open Document Format -- has fueled one of the biggest technology firestorms in government IT history...

Transit Project Highlights Benefits of Open Source Collaboration

Open source software is a known resource among government IT pros, who are continually asked to do more with less, but beyond the flexibility and freedom from licensing fees, those who know how to leverage IT to its fullest are also using the collaboration aspect of open source software to succeed ...

Gauging Quad-Core’s Effect on the Enterprise

Just as dual-core processor technology is making its way into mainstream enterprise IT environments, AMD, Intel and Sun Microsystems are pushing for even more processor cores. Quad-core processing is on the way ...

CONFERENCE REPORT

Red Tape Hinders Open Source Uptake in Government

Open source may be experiencing something of a slow uptake in government offices lately because the traditional "request for proposal" (RFP) process -- required and used by governments when spending tax dollars on software and other technology resources -- often excludes open source options ...

Sun, Laszlo Enter Mobile Platform Partnership

Java backer Sun Microsystems and open source application development player Laszlo Systems have announced a partnership to support OpenLaszlo applications on Java Micro Edition (ME) devices ...

Will Security Worries Dull Ajax’s Cutting Edge?

The programming tool Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has proven integral to the latest popular Internet destinations and is winning the favor of corporate supporters, including IBM and Google, as well as developers. However, there are some security issues that may accompany this cutting-edge technology tool ...

Opera Customizes Browser for Nintendo DS

Browser maker Opera Software has released in Europe a specialized browser for the two-screen Nintendo DS handheld, touting features that let users comfortably browse the Web from either the DS or slimmer Nintendo DS Lite ...

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