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SCO Plans for the Future
SALT LAKE CITY—Darl McBride, the CEO of The SCO Group, has big plans for his company going forward, whether or not it wins all the current litigation it is involved in against IBM and others. The Lindon, Utah, company has sued IBM for some $5 billion, alleging it illegally contributed Unix code, to which SCO…
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Novell’s OES Server May Draw Business Customers
Jack Messman, CEO of Novell, is cautious about forecasting the future of the Open Enterprise Server, which combines NetWare services on top of either the Netware or SuSE Linux Enterprise Edition kernel. “We believe in Linux,” said Messman. “We’re migrating all 6,000 of our desktops from Windows to Linux. But with an enterprise operating system…
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Sniffer Portable Troubleshoots Latest Wireless Networks
Network General on Tuesday continued trying to build momentum from its spinoff from Network Associates Technology Inc. with a new release of its Sniffer Portable protocol analyzer. Sniffer Portable 4.8, a software-only analyzer typically used on Windows-based laptops, adds real-time protocol decodes, allowing users to “see details of captured data in real time for quicker…
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Filter-Feeding Managers Clog the Workflow
During the ’90s, the phrase “real-time business” was the shibboleth of a particular brand of corporate executive: brash, often arrogant, fiercely ambitious and pretending to be iconoclastic as a way to set himself apart, while actually conforming to the trendiest academic fads. A decade later, the very executives who conceived and implemented the “real-time business”…
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OS X Security Patch Includes Browser Fix
Apple has rolled out a security update to correct nine potentially serious vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X operating system. The update, which carries a “highly critical” rating from Secunia, comes with a modification to Apple Computer Inc.’s Safari browser to provide protection against an IDN (International Domain Names) URL-spoofing vulnerability. The IDN bug allows…
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Microsoft Developing New Windows Server for Midmarket
Encouraged by the market reception of its Windows Small Business Server product, Microsoft Corp. is looking for an encore with a similar bundle targeted at midsize businesses. The new Windows Server SKU—called, at least for now, Windows Midmarket Server, or MMS—is not soup yet. But Microsoft executives have a good idea about how they plan…
