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Micro Focus Moves Mainframe Apps to .Net
Micro Focus International Ltd. Tuesday announced its new technology for migrating mainframe COBOL applications to Windows and the .Net Framework. The Rockville, Md.-based company’s new Micro Focus Net Express with .Net product enables developers to easily migrate COBOL applications to Windows and the .Net Framework, said Ian Archbell, vice president of product management at Micro…
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NetApp Acquires Storage Startup Spinnaker
Network Appliance Inc., aka NetApp, will acquire Spinnaker Networks Inc. for $300 million in stock, officials said Tuesday. The deal will expand Network Appliance’s technology holdings. Currently, NetApp’s. storage servers currently can cluster only two nodes, however Spinnaker’s software allows for hundreds of nodes on a single cluster, explained Suresh Vasudevan, senior director of software…
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Driving Linux Deep into the Enterprise
Novell Inc.’s acquisition of SuSE Linux AG had nothing to do with competing with Microsoft Corp. and everything to do with driving Linux deep into the enterprise, Novell and SuSE officials said at a media teleconference on Tuesday morning. Chris Stone, vice chairman of Novell, of Provo, Utah, stressed that the deal had not been…
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CA to Streamline Security Offerings
Faced with a growing number of identity management competitors, Computer Associates International Inc. plans to juggle its product lineup once again, this time consolidating two security lines in an effort to ease customer deployment and integration. At the Computer Security Institute conference in Washington this week, CA is announcing the availability of eTrust Admin Version…
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Borland’s Development Environment Gains .Net Support
Borland Software Corp. announced Delphi 8 for the Microsoft .Net Framework at its BorCon conference in San Jose, Calif., Monday. The new version is deeply integrated with .Net and enables Delphi developers to build applications for the .Net Framework and to migrate existing Win32 Delphi applications to the .Net Framework, said Simon Thornhill, vice president…
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MagiQ Readies Quantum Key Distribution System
MagiQ Technologies Inc. plans to release the first version of its much talked-about quantum key distribution product, known as Navajo. The system is to be unveiled today at the Computer Security Institute show in Washington and is among the first commercially available quantum cryptography products. In theory and practice, Navajo is not much different from…