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Google's Schmidt Joins IBM's Palmisano for Some Cloud Seeding May 02, 2008 
Two technology industry heavyweight CEOs -- Google's Eric Schmidt and IBM's Sam Palmisano -- took the stage together at IBM's PartnerWorld conference in Los Angeles Thursday to talk up their companies' cloud computing efforts, first publicly introduced last fall, which they say are still going strong.
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Sun Leads Developers Down the Open Storage Path May 01, 2008 
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday brought new how-to guides and services to the community of more than 3,000 developers using its OpenSolaris-based open storage platform. Two how-to recipes aim to help developers build solid storage systems quickly and efficiently, while the new service capabilities are designed to speed open storage application development.
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New IBM Server: It's No Hottie April 23, 2008 
IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new category of server designed specifically for cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. The iDataPlex system builds upon IBM's blade server background and more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack. It also uses 40 percent less power while quintupling the amount of computing that can be done.
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Sun Takes a Shine to Ubuntu for Servers April 03, 2008 
Sun Microsystems, one of the largest server makers, announced that it would increase the number of products certified for use with Ubuntu Linux, one of the fastest growing open source operating systems. The upcoming expansion is the latest development in the two-year relationship between Sun and Canonical.
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SourceForge's Larry Augustin: A Better Way to Build Web Apps March 18, 2008 
Larry Augustin strives for collaboration. Augustin and James Vera launched VA Research in 1993 with the hope of providing a Linux-based operating system for personal computers. After the company bought out its biggest rival -- Linux Hardware Solutions -- the company changed its name to VA Linux Systems and went public.
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Microsoft, Sun Taking the Right Interop Path March 13, 2008 
What a nut I was. Back when Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced they would be joining forces on interoperability between Sun, nee Java, and .NET -- remember Steve Ballmer of "Ballmer and Butthead" fam] and Scott McNealy sitting side by side -- I thought they meant it. I pushed the envelope, just for giggles, calling for binary compatibility between Java and .NET/DCOM/COM.
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Making It Easy to Build a Service-Oriented Architecture February 21, 2008 
Promising hefty productivity increases and a lower TCO, Tibco Software this week announced its beefed-up ActiveMatrix 2.0, which aims to simplify building and managing service-oriented architectures. This latest release adds BusinessWorks, which is available either in standalone mode or as a container hosted in the ActiveMatrix infrastructure.
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MuleSource Gets a Little Bit Commercial January 18, 2008 
MuleSource, a provider of open source service-oriented architecture infrastructure software, has jumped into the SOA governance pool with the community release this week of Mule Galaxy 1.0. Galaxy, an open source platform with integrated registry and repository, allows users to store and manage an increasing number of SOA artifacts.
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ESBs Finding Their Place in the Mix January 03, 2008 
Some recent Iona Technologies announcements point up the growing practice of multiple ESBs within enterprises, often associated in a federated manner, and sometimes using ESBs tasked with specific types of integration duties. Iona is taking a "hybrid" approach to ESB offerings, with a coordinated open source and commercial strategy.
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Intel Asks Devs to Help Get LANs, SANs to Play Nice December 19, 2007 
Intel has released a software initiator package designed to promote the development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet solutions for Linux, the company announced Tuesday. Now available for download, the software is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 and is open to all FCoE developers for source code download, code contribution and feedback.
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Sun Opens T2 Processor to Spur Developer Interest December 11, 2007 
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday made good on its promise to deliver its OpenSPARC T2 register transfer level processor design to the free and open source community using the GNU General Public License. The OpenSPARC T2 is the open version of Sun's UltraSPARC T2, a processor that features eight cores and eight threads per core running the Solaris 10 operating system.
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Who Needs Linux Support? December 07, 2007 
The Linux OS is free, but that doesn't mean it won't cost you more than pocket change to keep it working in your office. Depending on which of the many consumer or enterprise flavors you select, the price tag for support can range from your own invested hours scouring community help forums to spending thousands of dollars per month in IT salaries or third-party support.
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Red Hat Promises Souped-Up Performance With New Distributed Computing Platform December 05, 2007 
Red Hat announced Tuesday the release of the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise MRG. The open source developer's latest offering is an add-on for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other third-party operating platforms used by financial organizations and government agencies. As the name implies, the software combines messaging, real-time and grid functionality.
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Red Hat Tests On-Demand Waters With Amazon Deal November 08, 2007 
Open source computing company Red Hat is testing the waters for delivering its Enterprise Linux operating system on a pay-as-you-go online basis through Amazon's Web services system. The deal, in private beta testing, means companies can use Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, known as "Amazon EC2," on an on-demand basis.
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HP Offers Security Services for Red Hat Linux November 02, 2007 
HP on Thursday began offering new Multi-Level Security Services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The five support services are the first of their kind offered on the Linux operating system, according to Erik Lillestolen, government program manager for Open Source and Linux Organization at HP.
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Remote PC Repair, Part 1: The Warranty Alternative October 30, 2007 
Consumers and small-office and home-office workers often buy their computers from online stores or discount warehouses. They often reject add-on support packages at checkout to keep the purchase price low. If the computer breaks within 60 or 90 days, the manufacturer will handle the repairs, they reason.
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