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Oblicore Raises the Bar on IT Service Level Management
Service level management provider Oblicore on Jan. 16 will seek to capitalize on the growing interest in IT Business Service Management with the release of its Oblicore Guarantee 4.0. The privately held 5-year-old company hopes to carve out a place among HP, CA and BMC as well as smaller BSM competitors such as Managed Objects.…
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Do-It-Yourself DNS Service
I have a problem with my ISP, BellSouth. Its DNS (Domain Name System) service is slow, and there have been times that it just doesn’t work. Since I make my living off nonstop Internet connectivity, this is bad news. Without DNS, using the Web and e-mail becomes almost impossible. What to do? Well, I could…
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Symantec Launches New SIM Device
Symantec released its latest security information management product on Jan. 16, an appliance that promises to help businesses more effectively correlate and store data related to almost every element of their IT defenses. Dubbed the Symantec Security Information Manager 4.5, the new appliance boasts the ability to allow organizations to better collect and prioritize information…
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OpenSolaris Wins with GPL 3 Move
Sun is going to add the upcoming GNU General Public License Version 3 to OpenSolaris in addition to its current Common Development and Distribution License. This may give OpenSolaris a much needed kick in the pants. I have never liked the CDDL. Like many other open-source licenses, which are based on the MPL (Mozilla Public…
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Microsoft Hires Father of WebSphere from IBM
Microsoft has hired Don Ferguson, a prominent IBM software technologist and former chief architect of IBM’s Software Group, to work in the office of the CTO. According to Ferguson’s bio at Microsoft—published on Jan. 8—he is now a Microsoft technical fellow in Platforms and Strategy, in the office of the chief technology officer. At Microsoft,…
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Aras Move Puts New Spin on Open Source
Aras, which makes product life-cycle management software, has a new spin on open source: making the code to its Aras Innovator software, which only runs on proprietary Microsoft technologies, openly available under the Microsoft Community License and hosted on Microsoft’s Codeplex Web site. Aras customers will be able to download its code, yet are not…
