Stories by: Robert Mullins

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The iPhone: Why one little gadget matters so much 21 December, 2007 09:30:55

With its picture gracing the cover of Time's November 12 "Best Inventions of 2007" issue, the iPhone is undisputed as a technology product that matters to consumers. These days in IT that can mean only one thing -- the enterprise is its destiny.
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Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor 14 November, 2007 09:36:52

Oracle is going after its piece of the hot virtualization market by introducing an open source Xen-based hypervisor to compete against those from Novell, Red Hat and VMware.
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Red Hat expands Linux server, partners with Amazon 09 November, 2007 06:07:55

Red Hat is updating its Linux-based server operating system and offering a number of other related improvements aimed at helping the company assume a leadership role in enterprise computing. The enhancements include support for software appliances, improved virtualization, and a partnership with Amazon's compute "in the cloud" service that lets companies tap additional computing capacity on demand via the Web and access software-as-a service offerings.
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Data integration tool goes open source 08 November, 2007 06:20:03

XAware, a provider of commercial data integration software, is now going the open source route, introducing the latest version of its product, XAware 5, under the GPL v2 license.
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Sun countersues NetApp over storage patents 29 October, 2007 08:25:47

Sun has filed a countersuit against rival Network Appliance over patent infringement allegations regarding network storage management software.
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CTIA - Ballmer disses Google on wireless plans 25 October, 2007 05:55:23

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday, in a swipe at rival Google, that his company does not have any plans to bid on wireless spectrum in January, because being a wireless carrier goes beyond its core competency.
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Mobile Firefox out to break industry hold on device apps 12 October, 2007 08:09:22

By developing a version of its open source desktop Firefox Web browser to run on mobile devices, Mozilla hopes to break the hold some handset makers and carriers have on what mobile applications consumers can use, an executive of the company says.
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Oracle fixes glitch in PHP Web applications 11 October, 2007 10:04:15

Oracle has released a database driver free to the open source community that improves retrieval of data from Oracle databases for Web applications developed using PHP.
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Ballmer claims Red Hat violates Microsoft IP 10 October, 2007 08:36:35

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Red Hat Linux uses intellectual property owned by Microsoft and that Red Hat's customers should pay Microsoft for it.
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Azul Systems cheats death with US$40 million bailout 17 September, 2007 08:00:01

Azul Systems, secured US$40 million in new financing Thursday just as the provider of Java "network-attached processing" servers was laying off employees and reading media speculation that it was looking for a buyer.
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Internet pipes can't keep up in YouTube age 31 August, 2007 08:00:43

The Internet needs a massive investment to keep up with the demands of YouTube fans, billions of e-mails and wireles access, a university study states.