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Unlovable Linux?
At the time, most of us thought Oracle undercutting Red Hat’s Linux business with its Unbreakable Linux was a big deal. Would customers flock to Oracle’s cut-rate version of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)? Would Red Hat be pounded by Larry Ellison’s minions? After a few months, the answers appear to be: No, it wasn’t…
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POS Inconsistency Proving Costly for Top Retailers
Some of the nation’s top retailers—including Rite Aid, Harry & David, Ikea, KB Toys, Disney, Regal Cinemas and AMC Theaters—are named as defendants in lawsuits stemming from inconsistent point-of-sale deployment. The class-action lawsuits accuse about 50 retail chains of violating a provision of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act that makes it illegal for…
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Novell, Microsoft Staff Up Interoperability Lab
When Novell and Microsoft announced their unlikely partnership, a part of the arrangement that got little attention at the time was that they’d create a joint research facility, where both companies’ technical experts would collaborate on new joint software solutions. Now, they’re staffing up. According to Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s director of platform technology strategy, the…
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Mainsoft Releases New Windows, Web-to-Linux Dev Tools
Mainsoft has upgraded its plug-in for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 to help developers run their Visual C++ applications on Linux and Unix, following on its recent release of a new preview of the company’s Grasshopper tool for enabling ASP.NET applications to run on Linux and Unix. Mainsoft announced the availability of its Visual MainWin (C++)…
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Security Gifts that Keep on Giving
There will be a lot of opportunities at the RSA show in early February for solution providers to discover a range of new products that will surely be of interest to any company involved helping their customers secure their IT assets. But that range presents a problem: With so many products to choose from, solution…
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Microsoft, Symantec Might Clash in Application Security
With malware code writers creating an increasing number of attacks aimed at exploiting vulnerabilities in software applications, in addition to their threats that target operating system flaws, longtime partners Symantec and Microsoft are both attempting to stake major claims in the application security market. While Symantec’s play is more straightforward, having targeted the sector with…
