Microsoft: Future homes will have interactive wallpaper
The latest remodel of the Microsoft Home, the software vendor's techno-fuelled vision of domestic accoutrements of the future, has no robot butlers nor any flying cars parked in the driveway.
Stories by Eric Lai
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Oracle releases BerkeleyDB 4.5 database
Oracle Wednesday released Version 4.5 of BerkeleyDB, the embedable database it acquired in February through the purchase of SleepyCat Software.
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Survey: Interest in server virtualization overstated
Server virtualization may be enterprise computing's latest technology, but a recent survey of corporate IT buyers shows that near-term adoption may not match the hype.
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LINUXWORLD SF - SUSE Linux ThinkPads target chip designers
Lenovo will immediately begin selling and supporting a high-end model of its ThinkPad laptop with Novell's latest desktop version of SUSE Linux installed, the two companies announced Tuesday. The new laptop is aimed at electronics engineers and chip designers.
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LINUXWORLD SF - Novell touts Suse Linux 10 downloads
At Linuxworld Tuesday, Novell cited evidence of growing customer interest in its recently-released Suse Enterprise Linux 10.
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Open-source on Windows the next big thing?
When Bob Hecht joined Informa as its vice president of content strategy, he dreamed of rebuilding the British technical publisher's infrastructure using Linux and open-source technologies. But with Microsoft Windows entrenched throughout the company, Hecht settled on a more pragmatic hybrid: an open-source content management server from Alfresco Software, backed up by open-source applications MySQL, Apache Tomcat and JBoss -- all running on Windows Server-based hardware.
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Microsoft defends WGA
Under fire for reports that Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) misidentifies some genuine copies of Windows XP as pirated, Microsoft took the unusual step this week of releasing statistics about WGA's purported effectiveness for the first time via a blog.
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Vista, Office delays leave Microsoft partners worried
For the 7,000 or so Microsoft partners descending on Boston for this week's Worldwide Partner Conference, delays in the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 could leave them feeling like a store unable to stock its shelves with goods.
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Microsoft to back Office-to-ODF plug-in
In a tacit acknowledgment of the OpenDocument Format's (ODF) increased momentum, Microsoft announced Thursday that it will back an open-source project to create software allowing Microsoft Office users to open and save files in ODF.
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Microsoft denies WGA kill switch in Windows XP
Microsoft Friday denied speculation that it plans to cripple copies of Windows XP for users who refuse to install its controversial antipiracy tool, Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA).
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Survey: Hardware usually causes Oracle database woes
Faulty hardware, not hackers, caused most of the unplanned downtime experienced by Oracle databases in the past year, according to the results of a recent survey by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG).
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Microsoft to tweak key Vista security feature
Bowing to criticism, Microsoft plans to modify a key new security feature in its upcoming Windows Vista operating system to make it less cumbersome for users.
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Red Hat to drop Application Server
Red Hat confirmed Thursday that it is discontinuing development of its Red Hat Application Server (RHAS), a move that had been widely anticipated since mid-April, when the Linux distributor said it planned to buy commercial open-source application server provider JBoss for up to $US420 million.
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Oracle stays atop global database market
Oracle continued to top the worldwide database market last year, propelled by companies migrating to Oracle Database running on Linux, according to figures released by two leading market research companies.
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ISO approves Open Document Format as standard
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) this week accepted the Open Document Format (ODF) as an international standard for saving and exchanging digital office documents, according to a group supporting ODF's use.
