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Warning: The Storm still rages on
News X is for OS X The Storm worm botnet, a network of compromised computers, has been estimated to control between one million and five million machines, which one researcher said makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer. [07 May 2008]
Microsoft tactics akin to "patent terrorism" - Sun
News No one, certainly in the OS development community, wants to have these doubts lingering over them, especially users. Eagleton said Sun, and to a lesser degree IBM, have far more palatable approaches to patent protection. [24 Jul 2007]
IBM hits server seller with patent suit
News The company is developing servers that use Intel's Itanium processors but that can run z/OS, IBM's mainframe operating system, alongside higher-level mainframe software. The move to bring the software to comparatively mainstream systems is unusual... [07 Dec 2006]
IBM does Lotus Notes for Linux
News The new desktop software, tailored to the Linux open source operating system, is designed to help corporations that choose not to use proprietary operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. [10 Jul 2006]
Firefox for Mactels due in March, says Mozilla
News Similar Intel Mac OS X versions of Mozilla's Thunderbird email client and the third-party Camino browser are available from the same site. Camino utilises Mozilla's Gecko web rendering engine - as does Firefox - and is specifically aimed at full... [16 Jan 2006]
Linux switch on track in Mannheim
News After the first phase the city council hopes around 3,700 desktops will follow the servers onto the open source OS. IBM is the technical partner in all phases of Mannheim's "gentle migration". The city of Mannheim will have completed the first... [17 Oct 2005]
Microsoft still facing long list of legal woes
News The attorney said: "They're a big company and have a dominate position in the OS business, so they will always be a target. Microsoft also settled a lawsuit with IBM. The European Union's ruling requires Microsoft to provide key technical details... [12 Oct 2005]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Steve Jobs
News And the company unveiled the latest iteration of the Mac OS, Tiger, and Apple's first European store. Jobs has been called a somewhat unlikely Agenda Setter in the past - while Apple may not have the sheer financial clout of an IBM or the all... [20 Sep 2005]
End of the road for IBM's OS/2
News IBM, which made the announcement this week, said it will discontinue OS/2 products by 23 December and withdraw standard support for OS/2-related products as of 31 December 2006. IBM will stop selling the OS/2 operating system at year's end, marking... [18 Jul 2005]
Sun boss scorches rivals and open source
News Next on the hit-list was open source, with McNealy attacking the widely held view that the Linux operating system is cheap, compared with Sun's own Solaris OS or Microsoft's Windows, or even free. Speaking at the Executive Forum event just outside... [09 Jun 2005]
Microsoft hypes its own hypervisor
News We will build a thin hypervisor that sits on top of the hardware and virtualises resources such as CPU and memory, so it has the ability to create OS sessions," Muglia said. And what about the Mac OS, now that Apple has said it will begin using... [08 Jun 2005]
Apple powers up with Intel inside
News In his speech, Jobs revealed that Apple has been developing all versions of OS X since its inception to run on Intel and PowerPC chips. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life [for] the past five years," he said. [07 Jun 2005]
Apple to dump Big Blue
News And Jobs has said Mac OS X could easily run on x86 chips. One advantage Apple has this time: the open-source FreeBSD operating system, of which Mac OS X is a variant, already runs on x86 chips such as Intel's Pentium. [06 Jun 2005]
Apple users hit back over "irrelevant" claim
News I don't know, may be its just me, but I find it much easier to administer and plan to dump my Windows stuff totally and replace it with OS X Server," he said. My introduction to Mac OS X was met with some scepticism but after over a year of working... [20 Jan 2005]
HP to reanimate OpenVMS
News The same IBM Power machine now can run Linux, IBM's AIX version of Unix and the iSeries operating system, i5/OS. With the launch, HP will seek to retain historically loyal customers who today are prime targets for competitors such as IBM and Sun... [17 Jan 2005]
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