Alexander Wolfe

When Microsoft seeds the developer community next month with an updated pre-release version of its “Whidbey” Visual Studio .NET, it won’t neglect the emerging mobile market. Whidbey will come equipped with a vastly improved implementation of the .NET Compact Framework — Microsoft’s tool for building apps that run on smart devices such as Pocket PCs […]

Business software-maker Novell is asking a U.S. District Court in Central Utah to dismiss SCO’s “slander of title” lawsuit against the company, which also involves Unix V copyrights that are part of SCO’s $3 billion lawsuit against IBM. “We asked for dismissal because we think SCO has failed to allege the facts sufficient to support […]

The Open Source Development Lab is wading into SCO’s Group’s legal campaign over whether Linux contains copyrighted code, arguing in a new white paper that the company’s legal case is “headed for a wall.” In a position paper released Tuesday, the OSDL said Linux users are likely to ignore SCO Group’s copyright-themed lawsuit over select […]

Norwegian brower maker Opera Software is planning an initial stock offering on the Oslo exchange. “After developing and refining the technology and commercial side for nine years, Opera Software is now ready for public listing,” Jon S. von Tetzchner, Opera’s chief executive officer, said in a statement. Among computer-savvy users, Opera’s browser is a popular […]

Seeking tighter control of the software that powers its market-leading mobile phones, wireless phone maker Nokia will pay at least (US) $200 million to up its ownership in Symbian to 63.3 percent. The move may be aimed in part at parrying Microsoft, which is currently mounting an attack on Symbian’s mobile-phone operating system with its […]

As Web services expand to embrace grid computing and streamline business processes, interoperability is emerging as a major concern. That was the consensus of experts at the recent Web Services on Wall Street conference in New York. They say new standards are needed if the IT community is to successfully build on top of Web […]

While Linux lawsuits gobble up the IT community’s mindshare, a lesser-known legal action is being fought seeking billions of dollars from five PC vendors. Patriot Scientific, a small, San Diego-based seller of embedded microprocessors for automotive and scientific applications, is suing Sony, Fujitu, Matsushita, Toshiba, and NEC, alleging infringement of a Patriot patent for what […]

Paving a path toward its next-generation Longhorn operating system, Microsoft next month will seed the developer community with an updated pre-release version of its next Visual Studio .NET platform , code-named Whidbey. Though Longhorn, the code-name for Microsoft’s next version of Windows, isn’t expected to hit the market before 2006, Whidbey’s reception in the meantime […]

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), the Beaverton, Ore.-based organization dedicated to advancing Linux, today announced that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co. (NTT) has joined the group. NTT, the world’s largest telecom company, will help advance OSDL’s Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) effort. CGL is the spin off the open-source operating system aimed at network operators, […]

In a bid to broaden the penetration of its open-source operating system distributions, Mandrake Linux said it’s going to change the way its code is pulled together. The new procedure, which will essentially result in two pre-release versions in order to buzz out bugs, will first be applied to the company’s forthcoming 10.0 Linux release, […]

As president of the Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org), Eric Raymond is working hard to build bridges between old-line Unix programmers and the emerging Linux evangelists in the business world. But much more than these goals fill the plate — and mind — of the author of “The New Hacker’s Dictionary,” the now-legendary 1991 book about […]

Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software has become the first Chinese member to join the The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), the Oregon-based group dedicated to advancing Linux. Beijing Co-Create was founded by a group of 10 Chinese software vendors in April 2001. It’s been working on the development of commercial desktop Linux products, high-availability Linux […]