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SCO Wins a Round in IBM, Linux Saga
Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells of the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City gave The SCO Group Inc. a rare victory in its ongoing battle with IBM over whether IBM placed SCO-copyrighted Unix code in Linux. In her order, Judge Wells granted SCO’s discovery motion, in which the Lindon, Utah, company had demanded that IBM…
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Red Hat Readies New Enterprise Linux
Sources close to Red Hat Inc. tell eWEEK.com that the company will release RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 4.0, the next version of its Linux operating system, at an event in conjunction with February’s LinuxWorld trade show in Boston. This is the first major release of RHEL since September 2003. This also will be the…
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Sun Fixes Critical Java Plug-In Flaws
A pair of vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Plug-In technology could put users at risk of system bypass attacks, Sun Microsystems Inc. confirmed Thursday. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said the more serious of the two vulnerabilities could allow an untrusted applet to elevate privileges through JavaScript calling into Java code. For example, an untrusted…
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Latest MSN Messenger Worm Can Hijack System Info
A new Internet worm is squirming through Microsoft Corp.’s popular MSN Messenger chat network, anti-virus vendors warned on Thursday. The latest threat comes follows October’s Funner worm attack and signals a growing trend to use instant messaging as a delivery mechanism for malicious activity. According to an advisory from F-Secure, the new W32/Bropia-A worm users…
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Sun Brings Compliance, Content Management to One Screen
Sun Microsystems Inc. has introduced a product it says will help midsized and large businesses comply with regulatory requirements and corporate governance policies while managing content in a more comprehensive way than its previous offering. The Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution is built on the compliance platform from records compliance management vendor AXS-One Inc.…
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AmeriVault Extends Reach to Small, Home Businesses
AmeriVault Corp., a data storage and protection provider, has agreed to acquire Certified Backup, an online data backup vendor focused on the small and home business market. AmeriVault, of Waltham, Mass., uses the outsourcing model to provide offsite disk-to-disk data protection and recovery services including online data backup, e-mail archiving and data replication, mostly to…
