Jim Wagner

IBM has delivered its latest IBM Lotus Workplace product aimed at specific industries Thursday, this time in the consumer product market. The announcement is Big Blue’s third industry-specific offering in three months, enhancing the generic features of Workplace — messaging (IM, email, etc.), collaboration and learning and Web content management. The Armonk, N.Y., company released […]

The keepers of the Linux kernel, Open Source Development Labs’ (OSDL) Andrew Morton and Linus Torvalds, have released Linux 2.6.0, the first update to the popular kernel in nearly three years. According to the discussion lists they maintain, Morton, the 2.6 kernel maintainer, and Torvalds, the Linux kernel creator, have spent the past several weeks […]

Furthering its commitment to Java developers, BEA Systems Monday launched two programming aides and a Web site tracking standards-based initiatives. The Java Page Flow Portability Kit and XML Beans as Apache Project are just the two latest developer tools released by the San Jose, Calif.-based enterprise middleware company in recent time. Since June, BEA has […]

Microsoft is reorganizing its Windows operating system group to form a new group called Windows Core Operating System Division (COSD) within its platform group, a shift that could herald how the next version of the most popular operating system in the world is developed. A spokesman confirmed the change Monday, saying Brian Valentine, a Microsoft […]

A crippling distributed denial of service that began last week against software company SCO Group continued in sporadic bursts through the weekend, according to a company spokesman. As a result of the attacks, The SCO Group’s Web site was having difficulty staying online — although it appeared to be back online in Monday afternoon. The […]

Compared to Windows, Linux has enjoyed a reputation as a stable and secure operating systems , thanks in large part to an enthusiastic open source community that plugs holes before they create problems. But Linux’s growing popularity is attracting unwanted attention from virus writers, script kiddies and other criminal elements. In response, Linux advocates are […]

In what’s sure to make IBM’s Linux customers happy, Big Blue announced Thursday support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3 on its eServer line. The latest iteration of Red Hat’s enterprise software has spent the past couple months since its release Oct. 22 going through compatibility tests on the various server product lines — iSeries, […]

Compuware officials are about to debut the latest version of the software productivity company’s application performance monitoring software Monday, featuring management-level analytics to inform IT managers of network and application problems. Vantage 9 is the flagship software offering for the Detroit-based performance management and services developer. The software went public in Europe earlier this week. […]

The SCO Group , which is embroiled in a legal battle over copyright claims over some code in the Linux open source operating system, confirmed Wednesday a massive distributed denial of service attack (DdoS) on its corporate Web site. Officials at the SCO Group said a Denial of Service attack took down its Web site […]

Officials at the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) have filled the group’s last board of director seat with the addition of Novell Vice President Jeffrey Hawkins. The independent software vendor (ISV) applied for “platinum-level” membership — with $1 million a year dues — within the organization last week, and got unanimous approval from the other […]

Oracle officials announced Tuesday the availability of what they claim is the first middleware application server for grid computing. Application Server 10g was first unveiled at OracleWorld in September, when the Redwood Shores, Calif., company promised that the software would hit the market by year’s end, along with the Oracle Database 10g. Oracle, and other […]

Microsoft is about to unleash an upgrade to its year-old customer relationship management software with enhancements that tie the product even closer to other Microsoft applications. But one analyst said Microsoft had better rethink its CRM strategy if it thinks customers are going to wait years before seeing a CRM product that provides essential functions […]