Jim Wagner

Linux is in and an aging version of Microsoft’s enterprise Windows operating system is out after the French Ministry of Equipment decided to replace 1,500 Windows NT servers with Mandrakelinux Corporate servers. Mandrakesoft officials say the French government is committed to “promote technologies based on open standards, to open public markets to more competition and […]

Novell becomes only the third tech vendor to sign aboard the U.S. Government Services Agency’s (GSA) SmartBuy Program, officials announced Thursday. The SmartBuy Program is the government’s effort to concentrate all software and hardware purchases, which amounts to $60 billion annually, under one roof and get vendors to provide their wares at bulk-rate prices. The […]

Suggestions from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) conference about how to fight spam has an anti-spam expert questioning whether spam can really be wiped out. Matt Cain, META Group’s senior vice president of content and collaboration strategies, said the underlying e-mail framework, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol , makes eradicating spam nearly impossible. “It’s highly unlikely, […]

The spam epidemic has reached global proportions, debilitating e-mail systems everywhere. But with some muscle power from the Brits and Down Under, so has the fight against it. The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to share evidence in the fight against the ever-growing problem of spam , […]

Parts of IBM’s software will soon be standardized under Hyades, an open source project for automated software quality (ASQ) tools. By tweaking its Rational software code to meet the standards of the Hyades Project, a sub-project of the Eclipse Project, officials said components and controls built on the platform will work with third-party vendors and […]

Seventy-five registrars from around the world have banded together to protest the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number’s (ICANN) proposed 2004-2005 budget, which significantly raises the yearly fee for registrars regardless of size. If approved, the budget set forth by the Marina del Ray, Calif.-based Internet governance body could force dozens of registrars out […]

Officials at Linux distributor Mandrakesoft announced Thursday an all-stock buyout of Edge-IT, a Paris-based Linux services and support company. The deal, which still requires shareholder approval, is expected to close in a couple months, with Edge-IT shareholders receiving 70,000 shares of stock on the Euronext stock exchange, or 1.47 percent of Mandrakesoft’s outstanding shares. At […]

Version 1.0 of the Mono Project, an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET platform sponsored by Novell , is out the door. Mono 1.0 is used to create applications that are compatible in Linux, Windows, Apple MacOS X and some UNIX versions. The software tool can be used to create rich client, Web services and […]

The Mozilla Foundation Wednesday announced a cooperative effort to standardize plug-in functionality, ushering in a new era of multimedia accommodation on today’s Web browsers. Together with Apple , Macromedia , Sun Microsystems and Opera, officials at the open source organization said they are expanding the scope of its Netscape Plugin Application Interface (NPAPI) to create […]

UPDATE Mississippi officials announced at a press conference Wednesday the launch of phase two of the state’s three-phase project to centralize the databases of three counties’ fire departments, police stations and emergency-response offices. Officials said the Automated System Project is a pilot program and the first of a planned nationwide system to link all sheriff’s […]

Business process management (BPM) software maker Oak Grove Systems has launched Reactor 6.0, which features automation functionality across two popular development frameworks: .NET and J2EE . The Java-based Reactor 6.0 is also Oak Grove’s first foray into enterprise sales, after six years of working behind the scenes to offer workflow automation, business process integration and […]

Continuing its efforts to enter industry-specific — or vertical — markets, IBM rolled out its bundled WebSphere Everyplace Service Delivery (EDS) family of software Tuesday. There’s no new technology; it’s a conglomeration of existing technology: Mobile Portal, Device Management, Subscriber Management and Telecommunications Application Server. Put together, though, Everyplace Service Delivery fills a void in […]