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RSS OSCap Gemini seals global alliance with Microsoft
News Business consultancy, Cap Gemini, has signed a global alliance with Microsoft to provide a portfolio of services and customized solutions based on the Windows 2000 operating system (OS). Kathy Coleman, UK Microsoft... [14 Feb 2000]
Novell adds B2B to Net strategy
News In a move that takes the company yet further from its operating system (OS) roots, the company will build on its NDS eDirectory services and extend it beyond the enterprise to supply chain partners and customers. [09 Feb 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile Linux, crazy CEOs and an ASP success story
Comment Mobile Linux is an OS for diskless mobile systems. It is ROM-based, with a low memory footprint and claims to have innovative power management features. It is Linus Torvalds' new baby and you might like to think of it as... [06 Feb 2000]
Big Blue commits to Linux OS
News The systems giant will enable its client/server-based Network Stations to run on the open source OS and contribute resources to the development of a Journaled File System for the enterprise environment. [03 Feb 2000]
EMC to boost Win2000 reliability for Microsoft
News The latest alliance is an attempt to address that issue with the software giant's new OS. EMC, Data General and Microsoft have entered into an alliance aimed at increasing the reliability of the Windows 2000 Server... [01 Feb 2000]
Motorola and Psion team up on Net devices
News Motorola and Psion have announced they will co-develop mobile Internet access devices based on the Symbian operating system (OS). The partnership puts the Symbian OS venture - which is also backed by... [31 Jan 2000]
Sun offers Solaris 8 for free
News Sun Microsystems is offering Solaris 8, the latest version of its Unix operating system (OS), for free. Users and developers will have access to the source code, but may not sell or post improvements to the... [27 Jan 2000]
RiverSoft releases network management OS
News UK software company RiverSoft has released an operating system specifically designed as a platform for network management applications. Called i3philOSophy, it is designed to find out exactly what is on the network and pass information... [26 Jan 2000]
Minolta and SuSe seal open source printer OS partnership
News Minolta and SuSE, the Linux distributor, are teaming up to offer support for the open source operating system for the PagePro range of Minolta printers. Version 6.3 of SuSE Linux has a driver supporting the PagePro range, which allows... [21 Jan 2000]
Sleepless in Seattle: the Gates' plot has entered the final chapter
Comment The whole phenomenon is unmanageable without the dominant OS underpinning that. If you asked Americans who inspired the most fear and loathing - Microsoft chief Bill Gates or late Serbian warlord, Arkan - the vast... [17 Jan 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Compaq's direct intentions, SAP's turnaround and the lack of apps for Windows 2000
Comment All of this will come as bad news for Microsoft which, despite its size and dominance of the OS market, cannot afford to overlook the increasing impact that open source is having on the developer community. [16 Jan 2000]
Security experts identify first Win2000-only virus
News The virus is called Win2k.Inta or Win2000.Install, and does not function under older Windows operating systems (OS). The new OS, which will be on sale from February, has only recently finished... [13 Jan 2000]
Transatlantic Cable: Is Apple turning into Microsoft?
Comment What chance is a service like Xdrive going to have now in the Mac market once iDisk starts shipping as part of the Mac OS? Not because it developed these new technologies, but because it then gave them prominence by... [11 Jan 2000]
IBM reveals large-scale Linux push
News Not many people develop for OS/390," he commented. At the moment, the OS is in use mainly on PCs. IBM has announced its intention to integrate all of its hardware products with the Linux open source... [10 Jan 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: a year in review
Comment Our own view in this matter is simple and agrees with other parts of the findings - that Microsoft is a monopoly because it is able to maintain an artificially high price for its Windows OS and that this is detrimental... [20 Dec 1999]
