Sun Microsystems unwrapped a new family of Ultra workstations Monday -- the Ultra 20, Ultra 40 and Ultra 45. Two of the three new machines -- the Ultra 40 and the Ultra 45 -- come bundled with Sun's grid software, while all three systems ship with some of the company's developer tools.
Qlusters has officially announced the openQRM project, which comprises open-source systems management software for managing data centers based on Linux servers. OpenQRM is based on the firm's commercial software, Qlusters Resource Manager (QRM).
The open-source community and lawyers have greeted the Free Software Foundation's (FSF's) first take on a major update to its GNU GPL (general public license) with more bouquets than brickbats.
Enterprise management software vendor BMC Software signed its first alliance with XOsoft, an application availability company, Tuesday. Executives at both companies positioned the deal as an initial tie-up in what they expect will prove to be an important relationship.
Hewlett-Packard is extending its existing partnership with JBoss to support the open-source vendor's entire suite of enterprise middleware, HP is due to announce.
IBM plans to unveil a server, storage, networking and software bundle based on its BladeCenter servers targeting the retail market. Known as the Systems Solutions for Retail Stores, the bundle follows similar packages IBM has already announced for the banking industry and small to midsize businesses.
Startup Centeris plans to officially release version 1.0 of its Likewise Management Suite software this week. The company emerged from stealth mode in October with a public beta of Likewise that manages Linux servers in a Microsoft Windows network.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is due to release the initial draft of the GNU general public license (GPL) version 3 Monday. Software vendors and lawyers expect the draft to include a number of clarifications in the license's wording so it can better recognize global copyright.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a US$1.24 million three-year grant to Stanford University and software vendors Coverity and Symantec. The grant will fund daily security audits and analysis of more than 40 open-source projects including Apache, Linux, Mozilla, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Novell unveiled AppArmor, a new open-source project aimed at improving Linux application security, Tuesday.
A group of vendors has officially launched the Ethernet Alliance, an organization to further evangelize the networking technology, the companies announced Tuesday.
Startup JotSpot has a new spin on Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet with its JotSpot Tracker hosted online service. The Tracker service enables users to cut and paste an Excel spreadsheet directly onto a secure JotSpot Web site so that anyone within an organization can view and edit the information contained in that spreadsheet.
CA has announced a reseller tie-up with StoreAge Networking Technologies to beef up the virtualization and data protection capabilities of its BrightStor storage-management software suite, the company announced Monday.
The next variant of the Sober worm is set to attack computers already infected by previous versions of the malware at the stroke of midnight GMT as Jan. 5 turns into Jan. 6, according to European antivirus software vendors. Given that both Internet service providers and local police are closely monitoring Web sites likely to be used in the attack, security experts believe the hacker may choose not to engage in any malicious activity this time around.
EMC has completed its purchase of document capture software vendor Captiva, the storage giant announced Friday. Captiva stockholders gave the deal their seal of approval on Dec. 23.