Jim Wagner

Linux distributor Mandrakesoft’s bid to exit bankruptcy has been approved by the French Commerce Court. The company filed for “redressement judiciaire”–the French equivalent of Chapter 11 protection–in January 2003 after failing to turn a profit since 1999. Mandrakesoft rebounded last fall with its first quarterly profits in nearly four years. During the period from October […]

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WebLogic customers now have a roadmap to take their applications and portals onto a services-oriented architecture (SOA) model, with the launch of BEA Systems Enterprise Portal Rationalization (ERP) and Value Assessment Monday. The initiative is aimed at what BEA officials say is a common problem in many of today’s companies: a “Web sprawl” of applications […]

Officials at software developer Macromedia launched a new “Flex” presentation server and application framework Monday, in a bid to entice programmers to trade in their HTML-based Web applications and upgrade to Flash technology. In order to make the Flex server a reality, the company performed a kind of “$6 Million Dollar Man” operation on their […]

UPDATED: The world’s No. 2 PC manufacturer, Hewlett-Packard has filed an infringement lawsuit against Gateway over charges that Gateway did not extend licensing contracts on its patents. Officials involved in the case, which was filed in San Diego, said the suit is a last-resort effort by the Palo Alto, Calif., PC giant to get the […]

HP , the world’s No. 2 PC maker, announced a deal for Novell to provide SuSE Linux support and testing on its desktops and laptops. The two companies already have agreements to run SuSE on HP ProLiant and Integrity servers. This agreement extends the relationship to encompass all computer systems from the client side of […]

Oracle unveiled the second version of its Internal Controls Manager (ICM), an application that gives a global view on compliance efforts within the organization. First released in August 2003, the ICM gives IT managers and auditors a top-down view of the steps companies are taking to ensure they are providing internal controls within the company, […]

Jumping onto the service-oriented architecture (SOA) bandwagon, Plumtree has launched an incubator program designed to entice developers over to its Web infrastructure platform. The San Francisco-based enterprise software company is providing technical, marketing and engineering support to smaller vendors who want to incorporate Plumtree’s portal, integration, collaboration and content management suites into their own products. […]

Three days after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) posted its proposed sponsored top level domains (sTLDs), Microsoft’s director of technology made the case for a mobile TLD separate from .com and .net. Just shy of midnight Friday evening, Pacific Standard Time, ICANN — managers of the U.S. root server housing the […]

IBM on Tuesday said it will sell Red Hat software concurrently with its 64-bit computing platform, two months after taking a stake in the parent of the Linux vendor’s main competitor. The deal lets Big Blue sales representatives sell Red Hat Enterprise v3 with IBM’s POWER eServer and BladeCenter systems, in addition to its AIX […]

On-and-off-again supporters of the x86 microprocessor, Sun Microsystems , announced Monday an alliance with a database clustering company to build a case for its Solaris OS on x86-based machines. Starting Monday, Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based Metapa said its Cluster DataBase (CDB) software can be shipped on the Sun Fire V60x, V65x and V20z servers, in what […]

Enterprise software giant SAP has closed the gaps in its NetWeaver integration/application platform and expects customers to reap the benefits of an all-in-one network architecture. Scheduled for general release at month’s end, NetWeaver 2004 is a conglomeration of back-office applications: Mobile Infrastructure, Enterprise Portal, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Exchange Infrastructure, Web Application Server, Composite […]