Tag: application

  • Red Hat Exec: Oracle Linux Move ‘Positive for Us’

    Red Hat Exec: Oracle Linux Move ‘Positive for Us’

    Peter Galli

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    Red Hat executives are putting on a brave face and looking at Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux announcement as a positive for them, saying it is an acknowledgement that the future of software is open source and that its Enterprise Linux software is the gold standard. Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same… Read more

  • TransSend Eases Bluetooth Transfers

    TransSend Eases Bluetooth Transfers

    Wayne Rash

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    The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, an industry group that sets standards for the Bluetooth short-range wireless communications system, has come up with a new, easier, means of moving Web-based content from a PC to a Bluetooth-equipped device. The new application, called TransSend, is available for free from the group’s Web site and is designed to… Read more

  • Oracle Ships Mega Update for DB, Server Flaws

    Oracle Ships Mega Update for DB, Server Flaws

    Ryan Naraine

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    Oracle has shipped a monster critical patch update with fixes for more than 100 security vulnerabilities in a wide range of database and server products. The new-look bulletin, which includes CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) severity scores, patches about 120 bugs in the Oracle Database Server, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Application Express, Oracle Collaboration Suite,… Read more

  • Ten Reasons Vista Will Be Good for Business

    Michael Vizard

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    With the release of the business version of Vista about a month away, now seems like a good time to visit the Top 10 reasons solution providers should be excited about Vista. Realistically, it’s a bit much to expect that more than 20 percent of your customer base is going to have any immediate interest… Read more

  • Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache

    Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Port80 Software, a Microsoft partner, has released a new survey showing that the Microsoft Internet Information Services 6 Web server has overtaken the Apache open-source Web server among Fortune 1000 Web sites. In the survey released on Oct. 11, Port80 Software said IIS 6 more than doubled its market share over the last year, to… Read more

  • Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps

    Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps

    Jeffrey Burt

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    The industry is getting a glimpse of the not-so-distant future for microprocessors. At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 10, engineers from Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems will give presentations about their new generation of processors that will be released in 2007. Key to all the work being done is… Read more