Jim Wagner

UPDATED: SCO Group officials said they are pleased with a U.S. District Court of Delaware ruling that delays a lawsuit initiated by Red Hat last year, despite the judge’s denial of their own October motion to dismiss the case entirely. Blake Stowell, a spokesperson for the Lindon, Utah, company, said the ruling lets its team […]

Lawyers for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have moved to dismiss antitrust charges leveled by VeriSign , internetnews.com has learned. A 33-page motion, filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, claims VeriSign’s claims aren’t valid because the company is misinterpreting its contract with the Internet […]

Commercial Linux distributors can hold their own against rival Microsoft , but won’t displace Windows’ server deployment lead over open source operating systems for the next few years, a new study says. The report, on the cost of switching to Linux, which the Yankee Group released Monday, shows the open-source operating system also won’t put […]

Software developers at Innoopract released a Linux port to its Java programming tool for the Eclipse integrated development environment Tuesday, a move that’s steps ahead of its competitors. The software tool, World Wide Web Windowing Toolkit (W4T) Plug-In for Eclipse 3.0, transforms underlying Java code into Visual Basic-style code components — scroll bars, forms, buttons […]

Maybe Scott McNealy and Steve Ballmer had it right; technical collaboration between the two companies isn’t such a bad thing. That is unless if you happen to be a developer. A random survey of online forums and Web blogs catering to Java programmers since last Friday found a wide range of emotions that doesn’t leave […]

In an era where crackers are increasingly finding ways to get into corporate networks to cause havoc, a startup out of Menlo Park, Calif., has come up with a seemingly novel approach to security — get rid of application vulnerabilities before they’re deployed. With that approach in mind, Fortify Software launched its company Monday, pitching […]

Mandrakesoft proved to judges in the Parisian version of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy court earlier this week it had a viable business plan and exit strategy. Now all that remains is for the popular Linux distributor to follow through on its promise. Despite a devoted customer base, the open source operating system has some daunting […]

Microsoft’s decision to pay Sun Microsystems nearly $2 billion to resolve technology disputes will have a number of ramifications. But one of the most intriguing is whether it will affect Microsoft’s EU appeal. The payment ends Sun’s patent and antitrust actions against the company, as well as its objections in the European Union, which led […]

Computer Associates , the Islandia, N.Y., software company beset with accounting improprieties in recent times, has picked an industry veteran to helm its financial operations, officials said announced Thursday. Jeff Clarke, former CFO of Compaq Computer Corp. before Hewlett-Packard acquired the manufacturer, will take the reins of fiscal control from CA interim CFO Douglas Robinson, […]

Ariba, which makes software that manages how money is spent within an organization, added a content manager component to its product portfolio Wednesday afternoon by purchasing Softface. Softface is a privately-held maker of enterprise spend management performance applications based in Walnut Creek, Calif. Financial terms of the deal, which officials expect to close in early […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Wednesday published the first in what will be an annual report on the steps being taken to wipe out bogus or incomplete information found in domain registrations. The findings? Nearly 5,000 of the 24,148 complaints dealt with domains containing incorrect or incomplete contact information — telephone […]

In September of 2000, an e-mail security outfit called Postini filed for a patent that puts an intermediary server between the ISP and the end user and filters e-mails before they find their way into corporate email boxes. Now, nearly four years later and with Patent #6,650,890 in hand from the U.S. Patent & Trademark […]