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Oracle-Sun deal draws official objections from EC
News According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Sun, the EC has filed a statement of objections, which says the combination of Sun's open source MySQL database product with Oracle's... [10 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from fresh rumblings in the perennial Mac vs PC debate, to question marks over open source cost-cutting and the countdown to the launch of... [09 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News New OSes such as Android and Maemo will cut away at Symbian market share," Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst, said in a statement, adding: "Although there are relatively few open source OS-based smartphones... [02 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News It's a question many CIOs are wrestling with: can open source help make your IT budget stretch a little further in these tough economic times? While some CIOs are enthusiastic about the potential savings... [28 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury. Because it lacks the... [23 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News These problems include operating more than 40 mail systems, including Microsoft Exchange and open source products, and 180 email domains across the company's six operating divisions which Kinsella said... [12 Oct 2009]
Microsoft: Starter edition coming with Office 2010
News Unlike the Works suite, it will be compatible with Office, and is one of Microsoft's attempts to compete with increasing rivalry from open source offerings such as Google Apps. Microsoft has announced an... [09 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Software also hit the headlines in September, as silicon.com reporter Nick Heath explored why malware writers are turning to open source in their attempts to garner victims' financial details. Once... [06 Oct 2009]
Amazon will be king of the cloud: Mark Shuttleworth
News Shuttleworth told a BT open source event yesterday that Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a closely related platform, will become the cloud standard. If alternative clouds are to compete, he said, they... [06 Oct 2009]
Internet Explorer slips again as Firefox breathes down its neck
News In August Mozilla announced the open source browser had surpassed one billion downloads. Internet Explorer's share of the global browser market has dropped again, according to new research, falling from... [06 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun Microsystems acquired the open source database company, has joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence. [01 Oct 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News The UK government may have been slow to adopt open source software but there are signs that the tide may be turning. In February the CIO Council published a policy designed to stimulate the uptake of... [29 Sep 2009]
Google's Chrome-in-IE tech means higher malware risk, says Microsoft
News Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that is currently in an early developer release and was designed with security in mind from the beginning," Google said. That is a trade-off that customers... [28 Sep 2009]
Open source API to aid cloud-hopping businesses
News IBM and Microsoft have pledged support for the creation of an open source API that aims to simplify the process of switching cloud providers for organisations. Open... [24 Sep 2009]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News The scammers are using the open-source Jabber IM protocol to manage the one-on-one chat, RSA said, declining to identify the bank involved in the scam. Online scammers have created a phishing site... [18 Sep 2009]
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