A dismal quarter from software giant Oracle dragged technology stocks down on Wednesday, but tech analysts say the sell-off is overdone.
Remember about five or six years ago when the open source software movement was going to beat the stuffing out of software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun? That hasn't exactly happened.
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CNN.com's blogger bunch discuss the latest offerings from Microsoft and Google.
Google's netbook-friendly Chrome OS takes direct aim at Microsoft, whose eight-year-old Windows XP leads the netbook market. But the odds are stacked against Google.
For years, Microsoft has been trying to devise a "Google killer" (Can you say Live? Bing?). On Wednesday, the search engine giant lashed back with its own Chrome operating system. Could it be a "Microsoft killer?"
Microsoft Corp., expanding on an alliance with Novell Inc., has agreed to buy as much as $100 million more for subscription certificates for Novell's Linux products, Novell said Wednesday
The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren
Microsoft is at a critical moment in its history and is taking brilliant steps to remake itself. Thursday's announcement that it would open itself up to far greater interoperability with other types of software, including open source, is the latest big move. But the bigger step is its $44 billion bid for Yahoo.
True or False: Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a Linux-operated one could slash computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%.
Open-source software maker Red Hat Inc. said Tuesday fiscal second-quarter earnings rose sharply, driven by higher revenue from subscriptions for its Linux operating software.
Dell Inc is developing consumer PCs that can run multiple versions of Microsoft Corp's Windows and Linux software at the same time, the personal computer maker's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler, told Reuters.
Mr. Bill Gates! Mr. Bill Gates!" a young woman shrieks as the black car pulls up. A pallid student in a nylon windbreaker pushes his way through the security line and hands the world's richest man a small envelope with a floral design. "It's very important," he pants.
Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile - it can be customized to ...
Jimmy Wales may have created the world's largest encyclopedia, but he can't keep his inbox in order. In the back of a black London cab, careening from one high-powered meeting to the next, Wales si...
Aiming to take advantage of its already-impressive momentum, San Francisco's Linden Lab, developer of the Second Life virtual online world, will announce Monday that it is taking the first major step toward opening up its software for the contributions of any interested programmer.
Once-bitter software rivals Microsoft and Novell came together Thursday to make peace in the operating system world.
Looking for a cheap PC this holiday season? Good luck trying to find one with anything but Microsoft's Windows on it.
Falling crude oil prices and Treasury bond yields gave investors an impetus to push stocks higher Thursday afternoon, following a choppy morning hurt by a worrisome report on the housing market.
Stocks were mixed near midday Thursday, at the end of a choppy morning, after a new home sales report revived worries about the slowdown in the housing market and what it might mean for the economy.
Stocks gave back early gains Thursday morning, turning lower, after a new home sales report revived worries about the slowdown in the housing market and what it might mean for the economy.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - It's official: All mentions of Novell must now, once again, be preceded by the adjective "beleaguered."
The crusade to win a greater share of the operating system market away from Microsoft's Windows has long fired up the hearts of the Mac and Linux faithful. But popularity breeds contempt - from hackers. A new study of "malware" - viruses, worms, and other software nasties - released Friday by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab shows a doubling in the number of viruses and worms targeting Linux from 2004 to 2005. The trend is worth watching, says Linux Pipeline, but must be put in context. There were only 863 cases of Linux attacks last year, while Symantec found 11,000 viruses and worms in Windows. And Apple's Mac? It got off easy in the Kaspersky report, but last week brought news of vulnerabilities in OS X. Additionally, independent security researcher Tom Ferris posted to his blog a series of "serious" Mac security breaches that he recently discovered.
In the late '90s, bubble investors paid almost anything for outfits that promised astronomical growth. Millionaires were made and fortunes lost on stocks hyped up, not on fundamentals like earnings growth and margin expansion, but rather more ambiguous measurements like price to sales and eyeballs.
Business software firm Oracle is mulling creating its own version of the Linux operating system in an effort to keep up with competitors, according to a news report published Monday.
For years, Oracle and IBM have fought over bragging rights for the $8 billion database software market - a key technological battleground upon which sales of almost all other business software depend.
At the San Francisco offices of Panorama Capital, two dozen engineers, venture capitalists and academics gathered around a nondescript piece of hardware they all helped build.
At the San Francisco offices of Panorama Capital, two dozen engineers, venture capitalists, and academics gathered around a nondescript piece of hardware they all helped build. Then Allan Leinwand,...
While Microsoft has been pushing its Tablet PC operating system for a while, Apple has stayed away from the market -- so far. But there are increasing signs that Apple has a tablet computer on the drawing board. Engadget has uncovered an Apple patent filing for a tablet version of the Mac, showing an interface something like the touch-sensitive click-wheel found on the iPod. One challenge for an Apple tablet is conserving battery life -- but now that Apple has switched to Intel processors that consume less power, a Tablet Mac could be getting closer to reality.
Just a few years ago, Sun boasted serious Silicon Valley cachet. Getting a job there was one of the more coveted gigs in Silicon Valley, and its stock price soared.
(FORTUNE Small Business) - John Hoss, partner and VP of Freeport Launch Service, doesn't have time to monkey with his computer system. Operating a nine-vessel fleet off the coast of Freeport, Texas...
In an effort to expand the reach of its flagship subscription music service Rhapsody, RealNetworks Inc. is rolling out a new Web- based version and introducing compatibility with Macs and Linux-based devices.
FOR TWO YEARS AFTER THE DOT-COM CRASH, BRAM COHEN COULD almost always be found at his small dining-room table, first in San Francisco's Nob Hill and later in Oakland. His long brown hair would flop...
Last week Hewlett-Packard announced that it is acquiring two small software makers, Peregrine Systems and AppIQ, to bolster its enterprise software business. These deals, the first big software moves made under new HP CEO Mark Hurd, are a good start, but they aren't nearly enough to cure the company's software woes.
It's IBM's nightmare. In a conference room in Bangalore, a team of retail experts at software company Wipro are redesigning the consumer experience for a major U.S. retail chain. They're methodical...
Red Hat is getting a $99.5 million boost from Michael S. Dell, billionaire founder and chairman of Dell Inc., according a regulatory filing.
BitTorrent has been described as Hollywood's Napster -- a sinister software that makes it easy to steal movies off the Internet. And just like the recording industry response to the Napster scourge years ago, movie studios today are determined to stamp out BitTorrent.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Wait until next year. It's the rallying cry of fans of downtrodden sports teams. It also could be the motto of beleaguered Sun Microsystems.
In its attempt to conquer the movie world, specialist animators Moving Picture Company (MPC) have turned to an unlikely ally in the form of open sourcing, the concept that is changing the way businesses around the globe are operating.
Stocks closed out the holiday-shortened trading week Thursday by building on their three-and-a-half-year highs, as investors digested a mixed batch of economic numbers that helped sink the dollar to a new low against the euro.
Stocks drifted higher Thursday as investors digested a fresh batch of economic numbers on the last trading day before the Christmas holiday.
SINCE ITS FOUNDING A GENERATION ago, Microsoft has been famous (and famously reviled) for guarding its secrets as vigilantly as the former KGB. But in a series of surprising and little-noticed move...
NOBODY IN CHARGE AT MICROSOFT IS LIKELY to forget the dog days of August 2003. That month viruses and worms aimed at flaws in Windows software brought the Internet to its knees. Hard drives flooded...
When Novell CEO Jack Messman decided to buy Ximian in 2003, speculation was rife about what the decades-old networking-software company, known for its NetWare operating system, wanted with the scra...
Investors will most likely turn their attention to interest rates on Tuesday as some buyers were reluctant to make new purchases ahead of a key meeting of the Federal Reserve.
The "risks" sections of most company SEC filings are usually pretty tedious reads, written as they are by members of the legal staff hoping to cover the company's behind should an investor lawsuit arise.
Technology stocks posted solid gains during regular trading Thursday, but investors weren't happy with a midquarter update from chipmaker Intel, which came out after the bell.
Technology stocks edged down slightly Tuesday as investors sorted through a mixed bag of financial results and braced for a key quarterly earnings report from technology bellwether Intel Corp.
It's no mystery why investors may be turning away from Red Hat: The company's stock price has plummeted almost 30 percent since June 7.
No economic data is due and no companies will report earning Friday, but after the bell Thursday a handful of technology companies reported earnings, including software maker Adobe Systems Inc. and Linux systems operator Red Hat Inc.
Retail inflation that stayed surprisingly tame in May is likely to boost U.S. stocks at the open Tuesday, as it gave investors hope that the Federal Reserve will hold off from any aggressive interest rate tightening in the coming months.
Sam Palmisano has reason to feel good. Two years ago he took over one of the biggest jobs in American business and, along with it, the mantle that had been worn by now-legendary CEO Lou Gerstner. ...
Stop me if you've heard this one before. The Linux operating system is starting to emerge as a formidable threat to Microsoft's Windows.
In the ascetic waiting room of the SCO Group's Lindon, Utah, headquarters, the only reading matter is a stack of beige, telephone-book-sized binders. They are volumes I, II, III, and IV of the comp...
As a business model, it's either incredibly daring or thoroughly despicable, depending on your point of view. First, acquire rights to software you didn't write, some lines of which may or may not ...
To most people, Microsoft's image has long been blissfully uncomplicated: It's a big, bad bully with so much money-- $53 billion to be exact--that it is practically above the law. Even after the U....
In March, Michael Dell formally relinquished the reins of the company he founded in his college dorm room 20 years ago. That's what the press release said. But he and Kevin Rollins, the longtime li...
Technology stocks woke up Wednesday, shaking off four sessions of losses to close modestly higher.
A technology rally kept the Nasdaq higher late Wednesday afternoon, but the broader market drifted in listless trade following a four-session selloff.
Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. late Tuesday posted fourth-quarter revenues that surpassed Wall Street's estimates, making its shares a stock to watch for Wednesday.
It's never a good sign for the tech sector when some of its biggest news involves lawyers, but that's been the situation so far this year.
Steve Ballmer made a sudden and unscheduled trip to Munich last winter. The CEO of Microsoft had been vacationing with his family in Europe when he got word that the Bavarian capital was about to s...
The trends in this package all provide tantalizing markets for business and new ways for customers and consumers to spend money. Except this one: Open source, the free software movement that starte...
Another day, another e-mail worm. But unlike the creators of past worms, it looks like the writers of the latest one, known as MyDoom, are not going after Bill Gates and his fellow merry knights of Windows.
A sneaky e-mail worm continued to clog Internet traffic Tuesday, spreading faster than previous Web bugs by appearing as an innocuous error message.
What do these things have in common: the TV show American Idol, Howard Dean's presidential campaign, eBay, and the open-source Linux operating system? They're all manifestations of a key trend of o...
What do these things have in common: the TV show American Idol, Howard Dean's presidential campaign, eBay, and the open-source Linux operating system?
Silicon Valley has always had a soft spot for Scott McNealy, and it's easy to understand why. For the nearly two decades he has run Sun Microsystems--the longest tenure of any current high-tech CEO...
YOUNG, RICH, POWERFUL, AND CHANGING THE WORLD Work your way up from the bottom? Forget it. Our list of 40 (okay, 41) who have vaulted to the top before they hit 40.
In mid-may, CEOs at every company on the FORTUNE 1,000 and FORTUNE Global 500 opened a letter to discover that despite their various industries, languages, and far-flung locations, they all had som...
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The blessings were bouncing off the walls of New York's Carnegie Hall. It was a late February evening, and the banquet crowd of 350, dressed in everything from jeans to suits, sat silently as six T...
For as long as anyone can remember, Michael Robertson has been fighting with someone or something. He sparred with his political science professors in college because they were too liberal; he star...
How do you stop an army of penguins? That isn't a question from a South Pole scientist's bad dream. But it is a question Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are asking. The penguin, in case you don't kn...
Five years ago, Miguel de Icaza had what most hackers would consider a comfortable gig. A 24-year-old dropout at the national university in Mexico City, he spent most of his time in a cramped room ...
Hype springs eternal in the tech world. Last year I picked five technologies not worth your time and money, and four of the five are still duds (instant messaging, which I disparaged as a business ...
The clerks at Zumiez, a national chain of snowboard and skateboard shops, tend to stick out from the crowd. And it's not just because they sport black hooded sweatshirts or smack their gum while ri...
Microsoft's Bill Gates may be richer, but when it comes to unvarnished business aggression, no one in the high-tech world can top Larry Ellison, the 58-year-old founder and CEO of Oracle. This is a...
1 A Snapshot of the World in Three Parts. One: Starting now, most of France goes on vacation for a whole month. (Some go for longer.)
What a horrid time to be a technology company! The economy stinks. Corporate customers don't have money to spend, and even if they did, why would they? They're swimming in hardware and software the...
Item No. 1: AOL sues Microsoft in January, seeking potentially billions of dollars in damages for harm caused to the Netscape Internet browser by Microsoft's anticompetitive practices. The real goa...
When President Bush visited Europe in late June, it felt as if the U.S. and the Continent were separate planets: The leaders clashed on missile defense, global warming, and other issues. But while ...
Talk about a retro trend: Microsoft looms large in the news these days, with competitors worrying anew that the revitalized giant is about to release a series of products that will link everything ...
Dale Lancaster, CTO of ReallyEasy.com, is in something of a quandary. He's debating whether his company, a 20-employee Austin, Texas-based application services provider, should move its entire offi...
Of all the tech stocks toasting the potential split of Microsoft, the most joyous should have been VA Linux Systems and Red Hat. The two companies--which both market the free, open-source operating...
Microprocessors for mobile devices Founded: 1996 Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif. Sales: N.A. Employees: 200 Stock: Privately held Address: www.transmeta.com
Three years ago, Larry Ellison, CEO of database-software giant Oracle, took the stage during a gala press conference at Radio City Music Hall. Bathed in theater smoke and dramatic purple light as a...
Watching a Beijing colleague's son struggle on his dad's computer as he surfed the Web, eager to explore the cyberworld but thwarted by software designed for English speakers, Microsoft engineer Se...
Think of Sun Microsystems as the Big-Picture computer company. From its founding 18 years ago, Sun's executives have been thinking Big Thoughts. Even now they're thinking big, about where computing...
These are interesting times. And no, we don't consider that a curse. The business world that FORTUNE writes about has in recent years become strikingly less stodgy, less predictable, and more reple...
It's often dissed as "just" paper money. But these 40 guys (and, yes, they are all guys) have tons of it. They are America's new hyper-rich. Unlike prior generations of nouveaux riches, they don't ...
You say you got a real solution/Well, you know, we'd all love to see the plan./You ask me for a contribution?/Well, you know, we're all doing what we can.
LINUX COMPUTERS hq: Sunnyvale, Calif. founded:1993 sales: $50 million (est.) employees:132 privately held address: www.valinux.com
So I'm at the local Schlotzky's in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with Bob Young, CEO of Red Hat, the red hot company that sells Linux operating system software. I'm trying to gobble down a sandwich...
In my last column I reported on my battle to install Linux on a notebook computer (FORTUNE, April 26). After some difficulty--and a lot of technical help--I was finally able to run a PC on this fre...
Sun Microsystems certainly seems to pass the Internet-company smell test. Its R&D lab is brimming with promising Net-centric technology. It has a catchy slogan ("We're the dot in .com"). And its st...
"What about Linux?" my editor asked, looking up from yet another article about the maverick operating system that is presumed to be shaking the foundations of Microsoft. "What about it?" I asked, t...
Why do we need to protect intellectual property? Seriously, I'm beginning to wonder if we really need government protection of intellectual property in our new cyberworld.
By common logic, the mood at Netscape Communications should be as gloomy as the California skies during February's record rainfall. The red ink is rising, and there's no guarantee new lines of busi...
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