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PeopleSoft Continues Money-Back Guarantee
PeopleSoft intends to continue its money-back guarantee program through March 31 or until Oracle stops trying to take it over, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Read the full story at Silicon.com.
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Microsoft Expands .Net With Xen
In the professional world, most programming can be summed up in two words: data manipulation. And these days, much of the data being manipulated comes prepackaged in XML documents or SQL tables. So why do languages like C# force programmers to use obtuse APIs to access those data structures? It would be much more convenient…
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Lindows CEO Says Microsoft Targets European Resellers
Microsoft and Lindows.com Inc. are continuing to battle in the courts of Europe for the hearts and minds of resellers in what Lindows.com CEO and founder Michael Robertson, calls a “lawsuit rampage” begun by Microsoft last month when it went after Lindows on trademark grounds in Finland, France, Sweden and the Netherlands. “I still don’t…
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IBM Preps Next-Generation EXA Chipset
IBM engineers are looking to add high-end virtualization, greater scalability and enhanced I/O capabilities into the next generation of the company’s chipsets that run in many servers powered by Intel Corp.’s Xeon chips. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., is planning to roll out servers featuring the third generation of its EXA (Enterprise X Architecture) chipsets in…
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Fueling the .NET Migration
Microsoft has accomplished a lot in the last year. Just look at the channel. ISVs and providers now accept that .NET is real. Many are even more excited about “Longhorn” and the impact it will have on the industry. Almost none (save fanatical members of the Flat Earth Society) believe Microsoft will fail to dominate…
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HP Patches Tru64 Unix Vulnerability
Hewlett-Packard Co. recently discovered and patched a potential vulnerability in its Tru64 Unix operating system that could have resulted in unauthorized access or a denial-of-service attack. The patch, released Jan. 7, surfaced in the following week though a security bulletin published by HP. The bulletin, referenced as “SSRT3629A/B,” concerns HP Tru64 Unix Version 5.1B PK2…
