Stuck between maintaining an unsettling status quo or causing a damaging but potentially lucrative ruckus, Oracle is going for the ruckus.
Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier used to write his passwords down on a slip of paper and keep it in his wallet. Today, he uses a free Windows password-storage tool called Password Safe that he designed five years ago and released into the open-source community.
Mozilla won't make a 2009 deadline for releasing Firefox 3.6 and is giving itself more time to complete a major update, version 4.0.
Five years ago, Mozilla made it clear that the browser wars weren't over after all.
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.
Question: I have a small veterinary practice with 10 employees. What is a good program to use to make a database about my employees, with photos, contact info, salaries, information on their last raise, etc.?
The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by International Business Machines' rival Oracle on Monday came just weeks after Sun's negotiations with IBM failed.
The incoming Obama administration's plan to appoint the first national chief technology officer unequivocally emphasizes the new team's belief that technology isn't ancillary or extraneous to governance, and instead that it's an integral part of the effective running of a democratic superpower.
With the unveiling of Chrome, the search behemoth begins its march toward becoming Windows -- but free
updated: Tue Sep 02 2008 07:51:00
Privacy is at the heart of the new Microsoft browser, but it might eat into Google's lunch. CNN's Jim Boulden reports.
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
It's "Download Day" for its new browser, and the Firefox folks have alerted Guinness. Here's an advance look
Oracle and Sun both made impressive acquisitions of software companies this week. For its part, Oracle in buying BEA Systems is making the last great stand for licensed software - old school stuff customers buy and install themselves.
Just because the U.S. economy might be looking at a recession, doesn't mean a few good tech IPOs can't light up the market. While no company is fully immune to economic retraction, the most promising technology companies have the advantage of a global marketplace in which to sell their wares. So if U.S. markets hit the skids, companies can always focus their efforts on Asian or European customers.
True or False: Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a Linux-operated one could slash computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%.
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Computer expert Ken Colburn has more on why your new computer comes with so many trial software programs installed.
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.
Microsoft Corp. has failed in a first step to win enough support to make the data format behind its flagship Office software a global standard, the International Standards Organization said Tuesday.
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 ...
A machine for the home that can make anything, even itself sounds like the dream of a science fiction fan, but a device using open source software developed at Cornell University has been designed to do just that. Could it represent the dawn of the arts and crafts movement for the digital age or open the gateway to the destruction of intellectual property rights and copyright?
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...
Once upon a time, in the bad old days of business, giving away a product without charge was unheard of. Sure, Estée Lauder gave samples to celebrities and Gillette sold its razors cheap and made mo...
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.
When people ask me what I think is the most important trend in technology today, I always answer the same way. It's not Web 2.0, Open Source software or Google's growing power. The most important trend in technology is how it is boosting economic development around the world.
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.
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. -- Bernard Baruch, financier and Roosevelt advisor, 1870-1965.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - It's official: All mentions of Novell must now, once again, be preceded by the adjective "beleaguered."
It seemed like a typical company holiday party. The brandy and eggnog flowed freely, although it didn't seem to loosen up any of the attendees.
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.
Tech stocks are having a cracking 2006, with the NASDAQ hitting a five-year high this month, but some sectors are primed for better growth than others.
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,...
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(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...
When it comes to browsers, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a stronghold on the market, but other products are starting to make inroads, giving Web users a choice about what software they use to surf the Net.
It's a terrific time to be an entrepreneur. The availability of cheap computer hardware, free software, and high-speed Internet access has created a powerful new base from which to launch new busin...
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...
Rick Rashid makes his living staring off into the distance. He's head of Microsoft Research, the software giant's R&D arm, and it's his job to peer far over the horizon to divine where technology i...
Does the world need more database software? Maybe, if it's a low-cost open-source program that packs all the punch of products made by Oracle and Microsoft. That's the hope of startup EnterpriseDB,...
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.
"DITCH YOUR BROWSER," WRITES EDITOR-IN- chief Harry McCracken in October's PC World, a magazine widely read by techies and power users. What on earth is he talking about? Like a growing number of t...
Microsoft's dominance of the Web browser market faces a fresh challenge with the release of the final version of Mozilla's Firefox browser.
Blake Ross is lounging at his parents' Florida Keys condo, thinking ahead to his first day back at Stanford. His goal for his sophomore year: nothing less than to "take back the Web" from Microsoft...
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...
Five years ago open-source databases such as MySQL were like sparring partners—a student might practice on them, though you'd never subject them to a pro fight. But in 2004 they showed they could c...
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.
Blizzard Entertainment knew what it was in for when it announced in March that fans of its Warcraft computer games could download an online role-playing version for testing: 100,000 would-be orc ki...
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....
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...
The MyDoom virus has become the fastest-spreading virus yet, hitting hardest in the United States and Australia, security firm MessageLabs said Wednesday.
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?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
"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...
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