'Most people come to JBoss because they want a J2EE application server, but JBoss's dynamic architecture allows it to go wellbeyond J2EE,' note Norman Richards and Sam Griffith, Jr. in a new book, 'JBoss: A Developer's Notebook' just published by O'Reilly.

MKS Inc. has announced that a process framework for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library® (ITIL) delivered via its enterprise Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) offering, MKS Integrity Suite? 2005.

SugarCRM Marks One-Year Anniversary with New Open Source Milestones: Over 300,000 Downloads, 250 Commercial Customers and 575 Community Developers Validates Open Source Model for Enterprise Applications.

Arkeia Corporation has announced that its Arkeia Network Backup solution now supports the recently released Mac OS X Tiger operating system.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., has announced that Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, has selected Sun Microsystems' leading x64 (x86, 64-bit) Sun Fire servers for its electronic design automation (EDA) platform.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced it has completed the acquisition of Tarantella, Inc. Sun's investment in Tarantella underscores the company's commitment to an Open Source desktop delivered through the network.

GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP, a server-based anti-spam solution for Exchange and SMTP servers, has achieved the Windows Server 2003 certification from Microsoft Corp.

Srdjan Mijatovic and Bojana Miloradovic Parman co-founded Promind, developer of XSLmaker, a decade ago. In Part One of an exclusive interview, the two co-founders talked about the product's history and outlined how it's being used by developers today.

Management at Trustix has been encouraged by an uptick in downloads following a decision to make the company's TSL 3.0 freely available to the Linux community. The move, alongside a revamped community website, appears to have been met positively amongst the Linux community, the company...

'Accepting such a position violates the non-competition promise Lee made when he was hired as an executive,' Microsoft said as it last night sued a former top search executive, Dr Kai-Fu Lee, for accepting the post of R&D director in Google's R&D center in China.

Borland and IT services provider Unisys in Belgium have signed an agreement with the Belgian Federal Public Service Finance (FOD Finance). The multi-million Euro contract, with a run-time of five years, is for a project called 'SupDev,' part of an initiative within FOD Finance to centr...

DataViz will be extending its Documents To Go and RoadSync to the Symbian OS ecosystem, thus giving suitably equipped mobile phone users the ability to access their Microsoft Word documents. With smartphones based on Symbian OS, users have secure and wireless access to corporate e-mail...

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Database 10g Release 2, which delivers a more robust implementation of the Oracle Database 10g Release 1 feature set. The new release adds compelling improvements in performance, availability, manageability and security to assist cust...

New HP CEO Mark Hurd announced a reduction in HP's employment of 10 percent, to be accomplished over the next 18 months, and mostly targeted administrative departments. He also eliminated the company's Customer Solutions Group, in a continued effort to restore a semblance of the compan...

PGO-Global for Windows is a fast, simple, affordable Web-enabling solution that publishes Windows applications to the Web without the need for Citrix or Microsoft Windows Terminal Services. GraphOn also offers GO-Global for UNIX which publishes UNIX/Linux applications without the need ...

Oracle is buying privately held ProfitLogic, a maker of retail forecasting software, for undisclosed terms, the latest in a string of deals by the world's No. 2 software company to consolidate the business software industry.

With the close of the Tarantella acquisition, Sun now owns all assets of a leading provider of software that enables organizations to access and manage information, data and applications across virtually all platforms, networks and devices, according to a company announcement.

SAP, a German business software giant, is bringing the battle to New Zealand to woo customers from archrival Oracle with the introduction of its subsidiary TomorrowNow. SAP bought the Texas-based TomorrowNow in January. TomorrowNow provides support services for PeopleSoft and JD Edward...

Software giant Oracle has reported strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region, with revenue of $US1.73 billion for the year ended May 2005.

Is Apple close to creating a video iPod? Or is it about to launch itself as a 'virtual' mobile network operator, like Virgin Mobile? Speculation is rife that Steve Jobs and his team are about to seize the initiative again now that its sovereignty of the portable music market is meeting...

An internal investigation at SCO in August 2002 reported that not a single line of code in the Linux kernel was found that violated SCO's copyright, according to an e-mail obtained and recently reported on by Forbes online. An internal investigation at SCO in August 2002 reported that ...

The Computer Crime and Security survey, conducted in January by the institute and the computer-intrusion squad of the FBI's San Francisco office, found that 95% of respondents had experienced more than 10 Web-site incidents during 2004, up from 5% in 2003. Some 700 computer-security pr...

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 has a bug in its kernel that could let attackers bring down the machine with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, vulnerability tracker Secunia said on Friday. Microsoft's spokesman said, 'Microsoft is currently investigating public reports of a possible vulnerabi...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), is expected to announce that they have got an entry into the corporate notebook market by enticing Hewlett-Packard into using their processors for their products. If this happens, AMD will gain a major victory over their rivals Intel. HP is now planning to...

Sybase, Inc., a leading global enterprise infrastructure and mobile software company, lauded the success of American and Chinese negotiators at the meeting of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade meeting that concluded in Beijing.

Information is always available and secure with the new Oracle Database 10g, the company says. By being the first relational database designed for Grid Computing, Oracle Database 10g lowers the cost of ownership through automated management while providing the highest possible quality ...

'The acquisition of iDefense expands the VeriSign suite of managed security services, providing customers with additional capabilities with which to proactively protect their networks from vulnerabilities and attacks,' said VeriSign executive Judy Lin in outlining the company's strateg...

'Oracle's participation in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program has enabled it to deliver a new set of tools to develop and deploy Oracle applications on the Windows platform,' said Microsoft executive Nick Abbott. 'It represents the culmination of the VSIP partn...

Oracle has decided the a single chip in a dual-processor system should be billed at a 25% discount, thereby easing the terms of its database and application server software for customers who are integrating multi-core systems into their IT infrastructures.

HP is expected to announce a layoff of between 10,000 to 25,000 employees next week as part of new CEO Mark Hurd's restructuring plan, according to Wall Street analysts. Known internatlly as ``The Big One,'' the layoff will set the future direction of the company.

Test Case Sniffer monitors a running application and automatically generates unit test cases that capture application behavior. Simply exercise the application functionality you want to test, and Test Case Sniffer automatically generates JUnit test cases with real data that represents ...

IBM, makers of Pentium, is making sure that vital resource called innovation will continue to flow. The company is currently working with a range of programs, centered around the world's universities, that promote research, provide resources for faculty and help students find their sta...

Microsoft announced a deal with Marvel Enterprises to develop an advanced online game based on Marvel's well-known cast of comic book characters. This will expand the video game wars to new fronts. The deal extends Microsoft's competition with Sony, its prime video game rival, into the...

Fostering collaboration and a greater sense of vibrancy in technology are prominent themes at next week?s Microsoft Faculty Summit, which is expected to bring 400 academic researchers and other invitees to Redmond to explore future directions in computing.

Microsoft featured a hands-on Linux demo at its recent partner conference in Minneapolis. This showed that the company is either less afraid of Linux and now willing to embrace it, or more hostile to Linux than ever and therefore willing to embrace it. Now the debate has been extended ...

Claria, behavioral marketing and adware firm, has begun to test a personalized search service that tailors search results to web surfers' behavior, reports CNET. Claria's software tracks users' movements around the web and is installed on tens of millions of desktops. By analyzing thos...

First it was the US, and now its Europe. Online commerce is picking up across Europe - especially the parts in Western Europe - naturally at different rates in different countries - with not only internet and broadband penetration rates but also cultural factors playing a role in e-com...

The European Parliament has rejected the Computer-Implemented Inventions directive, the so-called 'software patent' directive. Red Hat and Sun Microsystems combined efforts with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) to bring about this victory for those who value ...

A revamped CBS News Web site that greatly increases the amount of video available to advertisers has been introduced by CBS, reports AdWeek. CBSNews.com at present carries 25,000 video clips and will feature news videos throughout the day. CBS Digital will sell 30 and 15 second pre-rol...

The Sun StorEdge 9985 system is a follow-on to the existing Sun StorEdge 9970 system, and runs the same software and microcode as the Sun StorEdge 9990 system. The system is targeted at Sun StorEdge 9900 customers who are implementing large-scale consolidation projects, among other ini...