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Five years after Samba
2.0 - with 31 dot
releases intervening -
the Samba team has
finally delivered Samba
3.2, the latest FOSS file
and print server suite
for Microsoft Windows
clients. Samba now has
90% of the file
functionality and 95% of
the printing
functio...
Sun is offering to put
its open source Glassfish
application server and
MySQL database on as many
servers as a company's
got for a flat annual
subscription - no
counting servers, CPUS,
cores or virtual
machines, it says.
After much soul-searching
but finding no
'compelling reason,'
Intel of all people is
not going to upgrade its
80,000 PCs to Vista
except in a few places;
XP is just fine, thank
you, according to a piece
on a New York Times blog
that actually started in
the Inquire...
Tom Brokaw during his
exit interview with Bill
Gates last Friday asked,
'Do you think in a year
from now, when you're
down at the foundation
offices, you'll look up
at Microsoft and see
Yahoo as a permanent wing
of Microsoft, a part of
it? Do you think the deal
wi...
Adobe says it's going to
'dramatically improve'
the search results of
dynamic web content and
rich Internet
applications (RIAs) for
Google and Yahoo by
giving them optimized
Flash Player technology.
This new widgetry, which
will read and index SWF
files, is suppos...
Microsoft has confirmed
that it's buying the
Powerset semantic or
natural language search
start-up and its staff of
50 to give Google and its
keywords a run for their
money, as rumored last
week. How long it takes
Microsoft to go
algorithm-to-algorithm
with Google...
Brace yourself for a new
era of creative web
addresses. ICANN, the
non-profit Internet
Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers, has
opened up top-level
domains, the little .com,
.org, .gov, .edu, .net
suffixes or country
abbreviation at the end
of a web address...
Well, if the economy -
and not just software,
mind you - is going from
products to services and
perforce subscriptions
then vendors are going to
need an appropriate
billing system that
chases down and captures
all the monthly payments,
right? Well, that's what
a c...
Verizon, Google, Cisco,
HP, Motorola, Sun,
Telefon AB and Ericsson
have banded together as
the Allied Security Trust
to buy IP before any
trolls can take them to
court. They've paid $250k
to join and are each
kicking it about $5
million in funding. They
will then ...
A New York federal judge
has ordered Google to
turn YouTube user data
over to Viacom's outside
counsel so Viacom, which
is suing YouTube for
upwards of a billion
dollars in damages, can
prove YouTube users are
watching copyrighted
videos. That's every
YouTube user...
Microsoft has finally
explained what its
subscription-based Albany
gambit is and it's like
what we said it would be.
Microsoft officially
calls it Microsoft Equipt
and it's meant to push
out Office Home and
Office Student 2007 as
kinda, sorta, almost, but
not quit...
The Justice Department
has reportedly opened a
formal antitrust
investigation of the
multimillion-dollar
Microsoft-escaping deal
for Google to provide
advertising to Yahoo's
search engine, with a
demand for documents
going out to other than
the immediate parties, ...
PlateSpin has trotted out
its first major product
release since Novell
bought the virtualization
management operation back
in March with the launch
of PowerConvert 7.0, its
data center disaster
recovery mojo. The
software has new backup
and recovery features and
e...
Microsoft managed to get
its VMware-spooking
Hyper-V, its
hypervisor-based
virtualization
technology, out the door
Thursday, which is
something of an
accomplishment
considering that by
Microsoft's clock the
thing is weeks early,
having not been expected
until August sometime.
On Tuesday TechCrunch and
CNet, based on the usual
'sources,' reported that
talks between Yahoo and
Microsoft were back on,
stories that prevented
Yahoo's desperate,
bewildered, shuttlecock
stock from dropping below
the 20-dollar barrier and
landing in the high teen...
To no one's particular
surprise, Oracle has
claimed that it suffered
hundreds of millions, if
not 'at least' a billion
dollars worth of damages
because of SAP and the IP
hacking theft of its
TomorrowNow PeopleSoft/JD
Edwards customer support
subsidiary. 
NetSuite, the Larry
Ellison SaaS company, is
buying OpenAir, the
56-man shop that is
supposed to be the leader
in on-demand professional
services automation, for
$26 million cash, net of
the cash on the
acquisition's balance
sheet. NetSuite says it
probably won't ...
The fireworks over Armonk
this 4th of July are
going to be a bit
brighter and more awesome
because - by the flick of
a checkbook - IBM has
gotten out from under a
threat to its precious
multibillion-dollar
mainframe monopoly.
Novell says it's going to
'simplify' pricing and
discounts on SLES for
mainframes for the rest
of the year. That means
it's going to cut prices
by 33%-47% by offering a
three-year subscription
for the price of a
two-year subscription or
a five-year subscription
fo...
A little Chicago ISV
called LimitNone is suing
Google for nigh on to a
billion dollar charging
it with misappropriating
its trade secrets to beat
back Microsoft Office.
Seems a year ago March
LimitNone shared its mojo
for migrating Outlook
users and their calendars ...
Red Hat saw earnings rise
6.6% to $17.3 million, or
eight cents a share in
its first fiscal quarter
ended May 31 on revenue
up 32% year-over-year and
11% sequentially to
$156.6 million. EPS was
dead flat year-over-year.
Subscription revenue was
$130.7 million, up 27...
On Monday, nine days
ahead of his sentencing
on July 9 for the murder
of his wife, William
DuBois, the lawyer for
ace Linux programmer Hans
Reiser, filed a brief
with the court saying -
for the very first time
since this case began -
that under penalty of
perjury ...
Nokia wants to buy the
52% of the Symbian
operating system that it
doesn't already own to
open source it and set it
free. It's a defense
against advances into the
fragmented mobile space
that Nokia and Symbian
dominate - particularly -
from the looks of case -
aga...
HP may lose the head of
its Personal Systems
Group (PSG), Todd
Bradley, to Motorola.
He's on Moto's list of
two candidates to run its
cell phone operation,
according to the Wall
Street Journal.
Everybody's still in
denial because
negotiations are at the
sensitiv...
HP has open sourced the
Tru64 Unix Advanced File
System (AdvFS) that it
got from DEC by way of
Compaq. It's sent the
16-year-old Alpha-based
source code, representing
what it calls 400 R&D
years, over to
Sourceforge under the
GPLv2 license as a
reference implement...
Moving in like a weather
front, IBM is opening its
first - or for that
matter anybody's first -
cloud computing center in
Africa, and a second one
China. The African site
is in Johannesburg, the
Chinese one in Beijing.
IBM said the new centers
are part of its overal...
Sun has released a new
real-time,
shared-nothing,
carrier-grade version of
MySQL called MySQL
Cluster Carrier Grade
Edition 6.3 certified for
use in telecom
environments, such as
subscriber data
management systems (hlr,
hss) and service delivery
platforms. 
The two Detroit pension
funds suing Yahoo in
Delaware to invalidate
its severance plan
'poison pill' have been
denied the expedited
trial that they asked for
ahead of the August 1
stockholders meeting. The
plan is supposed to
incentivize Google staff
to leave if a...
Novell was foiled in its
attempt this week to
persuade the bankruptcy
judge in Delaware, who's
holding SCO life in his
hands, to deny SCO
another extension in
filing a formal plan of
reorganization. If the
judge had agreed with
Novell - which he didn't
- that woul...
Salesforce.com, which has
already linked its CRM
software to Google Apps
and integrated AdWords
tracking into its
platform, is deploying a
free new Force.com
Toolkit for Google Data
APIs so third-party
developers can interact
with data in Google
services. The tool...
Telstra, the old
Australian phone company
before government-owned
monopolies became
unfashionable and now the
country's leading telecom
and media house, is going
into the Software as a
Service (SaaS) business.
It's got a platform
called T-Suite and
intends to use ...
So the Shanghai
Securities News - sort of
the Wall Street Journal
of China but basically a
government house organ
often used for conveying
official announcements -
reports this week that
Microsoft is being
investigated for
antitrust violations and
might get sued w...
Hewlett-Packard has torn
a page out of Sun's book
- at least the Sun
edition that reads give
gear away for free to buy
market share - except
HP's target is IBM and
IBM's precious,
profitable mainframe
preserve. The notion,
called the 'NonStop
Freedom' incentive pl...
Red Hat is open sourcing
Project Spacewalk, the
Red Hat Network (RHN)
Satellite code base under
the GPLv2 license. RHN
Satellite is the stuff
behind the Red Hat
Network and lets
customers manage RHEL
updates inside their
firewall. It does systems
provisioning, upd...