Recent Articles
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Oracle Takes Control of PeopleSoft
Oracle Corp. early Wednesday declared that it had won control of PeopleSoft Inc. after stockholders tendered about 75 percent of the outstanding shares of the Pleasanton, Calif. producer of enterprise application software. Oracle made the announcement after the initial offering period for Oracle’s $26.50 tender offer for all PeopleSoft shares expired at midnight EST Tuesday.…
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California Mounts Appeal of FCC’s VOIP Order
The state of California is mounting a legal challenge to a recent Federal Communications Commission ruling that VOIP phone services sold by Vonage Holdings Corp. were exempt from state and local regulations and tariffs. In a petition for review filed with the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, the Public Utilities Commission of…
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A Peek Under Microsoft’s Secret ‘Bigtop’
Microsoft officials have said little about the company’s intentions in the grid-computing space. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is ignoring the evolving arena of grid/distributed computing. Microsoft is working on a skunk-works project that is code-named Bigtop, which is designed to allow developers to create a set of loosely coupled, distributed operating-systems components in a…
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Symantec Plus Veritas Equals CA Trouble
Some people seem to have trouble understanding why Symantec bought Veritas. To me, it was a no-brainer. Symantec, like it or lump it, is the brand name of PC anti-viral software. Veritas, in turn, owns the backup market. Don’t you think most users, and your customers, would like having one stop for both data protection…
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Citrix, Microsoft Extend Partnership
Despite speculation that Microsoft Corp. would abandon Citrix Systems Inc.—the company that created MetaFrame and WinFrame, the predecessor to Microsoft’s Terminal Server—and build its own terminal services in the next version of Windows Server, aka “Longhorn,” Microsoft and Citrix recently reached an agreement to collaborate and cross-license Terminal Server and Windows. Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite,…
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Novell Combines SuSE Linux, Netware in Server Public Beta
Novell Inc. gave its NetWare and Linux users a Christmas present by releasing the first public beta of Novell Open Enterprise Server over the holiday weekend. OES is Novell’s dual operating system, NetWare services platform. It can run on top of either SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) 9.0 or the NetWare 7.0 kernel or both.…
