Enterprise

Mozilla's open source software developers quickly jumped on a supposedly critical series of Javascript vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser, only to find that the hack, presented over the weekend at ToorCon in San Diego, was a big joke. "The main purpose of our talk was to be humorous," said Misch...

Yahoo used its recent "Hack Day" to springboard its opening of substantial chunks of code to software developers, highlighted by the application programming interface of Yahoo's widely-used Web e-mail application. Yahoo said the Web application code release -- aimed at spurring new interfaces and ot...

When Oracle bought Berkeley DB provider Sleepycat Software early this year, some feared the open source database maker's product -- and the entire open source database market -- might be at risk. Now, however, Oracle is winning praise for a hands-off approach that has resulted in its first update to...

In a twist made possible by virtualization, Novell said this week it would support Linux virtualization, including instances of rival Red Hat's Linux Enterprise 4 operating system, using Xen virtualization optimized for Intel hardware. Novell said it will offer enterprise support both for its own Su...

Hoping to monetize its open source software development, Qlusters this week is making available openQRM Pro, a specialized version of its systems management software, for sale. Like its open source openQRM datacenter provisioning and management software -- which works with Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows ...

The Mozilla Foundation patches seven security flaws with version 1.5.0.7 of its Firefox browser. Four of them, rated "critical," would allow attackers to install software on vulnerable computers. The critical problems include a JavaScript error that could permit remote execution of code and a vuln...

Web hosting has always been a good place to find Linux servers -- often coupled with other popular open source software such as Apache Web servers -- but Spin Magazine's recent move to Rackspace Managed Hosting illustrates the upsurge in choices for Linux hosting support, which is at the heart of th...

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, has approved the creation of the Aperi Storage Management Framework Project. The Aperi Project, which was proposed in June, will give customers more choices for deploying open-storag...

Grisoft, the supplier of AVG security software, has released the public beta version of AVG Internet Security 7.5, its new anti-malware security suite. In addition to the new security suite, public beta versions for the entire AVG 7.5 computer security portfolio are available, including new and upda...

Leading Linux vendor Red Hat is developing a new software vulnerability database with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The database will give vendors of both open source and proprietary software a place to post official statements and security related information pertaining to the...

Reinforcing the company's strategy around open source business models, IBM announced new resources designed to help software development teams build Eclipse-based, vendor neutral development environments. Additionally, IBM is unveiling a new customer support program -- IBM Rational Elite Support for...

The IT industry phrase "a single throat to choke" stems from the idea that it's beneficial to have a single, trusted provider of software support than several sharing that all-important responsibility. However, recent research indicates only a minority of organizations are looking to open source sta...

Trusted Computer Solutions, a supplier of security and information-sharing applications for government and industry, has partnered with IBM to launch the TCS SecureOffice suite of cross-domain guards based on Linux. The suite is the first to feature such guards running at the Linux operating system ...

Collax has announced the launch of Collax Business Server, a suite of open source applications for security, networking and communications. Collax Business Server is a Linux-based solution available as a free software license for up to five non-commercial users. It can be scaled for use in small to...

Virtualization -- the use of multiple instances of operating systems, applications, or other software running on single hardware devices -- comes in many different forms and flavors, but among the most often mentioned of late is XenSource and its open source Xen virtualization technology. While stil...