Jim Wagner

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) wants to find out what’s needed to make desktop Linux successful, so it launched an initiative on Monday to find out how to make that happen. Originally drafted by OSDL members, the goal of the document, said Bill Weinberg, OSDL open source architecture specialist, is to attract the attention […]

IBM will release a series of tools and support services to port Linux applications to its mainframe and server architectures today, the company said. The IBM eServer Application Server Advantage for Linux, or Chiphopper, is recognition by the Armonk, N.Y., software giant that there’s demand for Linux applications created by ISVs outside the Intel- or […]

UPDATED Verizon and MCI executives today laid out plans to combine their operations in a deal valued around $6.7 billion. Directors at both companies have approved the merger, though the sale still needs approval from MCI shareholders and federal regulatory agencies like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ). According to officials, […]

Sun Microsystems’ decision to open-source 1,600 patents within only the OpenSolaris development community is meeting with disappointment in some communities. The move would likely result in little open source developer uptake, Dan Ravicher, executive director of the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) said Friday. “The operating system open source community is already behind GNU Linux,” he […]

Work continues apace to bring the next generation of Windows-based development to .NET programmers, with a second beta version of its framework due out in the coming months. The update follows its recent VSLive show of developer tools for Web services. As reported by internetnetnews.com, they include Visual Studio 2005, code-named Whidbey, along with a […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it is confident that Telcordia Technologies, its choice to pick the next .net manager from a list of bidders, can render a fair decision. The comment comes in the wake of a Web of connections among the company and the bidders whose applications for the […]

IBM was dealt a temporary setback in its efforts to dismiss the SCO Group’s lawsuit Tuesday, but the judge’s comments in the matter suggest his patience is wearing thin on some of the motions. U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball denied Big Blue’s requests for a partial summary judgment on three motions involving SCO’s claims […]

Computer Associates finalized its executive transition on Wednesday, naming John Swainson its new CEO. CA selected Swainson, a 26-year IBM veteran, in November to fill the role temporarily held by Kenneth Cron. Cron replaced former CEO Sanjay Kumar in April in the wake of the company’s “35 day” financial scandal. John SwainsonSource: CA Cron will […]

Borland announced this week the release of Borland Core Software Delivery Platform (SDP), its integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) system. Previously codenamed Project Themis, Core is the result of several years of progress in combining the software development needs of programmers and business managers. Designed to let architects, analysts and testers view an entire software […]

Officials at Computer Associates have announced the launch of a new asset management tool designed to provide information on the hardware and software used throughout the enterprise. Unicenter Asset Intelligence r11 is an add-on to Unicenter Asset Management r11 (you need the latter to run the former), which identifies hardware and software on the corporate […]

One of the world’s largest Internet providers is hosting illegal spam operations and making an estimated $5 million a year to keep those operations running, according to a report published by the anti-spam group Spamhaus Project Friday. The non-profit organization, which tracks spam and provides lists of spammers, said it has repeatedly notified MCI that […]

UPDATED: Spammers have put a new twist on an old problem for blasting out thousands of e-mails from zombied computers, and it takes the proxy technique one step further. Infected computers are now used as middlemen to get at the ISPs’ own e-mail servers, rather than using the zombied computer to directly send spam. But, […]