KeyBank is an example that Linux proponents wish there were more of. The Cleveland-based bank is in the midst of a multiyear upgrade to Linux and expects the open-source operating system to be running on almost 15 percent of its servers, many with mission-critical applications, by 2008.
Shrugging off challenges from rival upstarts touting better technology, virtualization leader VMware on Friday released a free beta version of its software for creating multiple operating systems on a single machine.
The open-source Firefox Web browser continues to flirt with the 10 percent market share milestone, but Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) regained lost ground among Internet users last month -- apparently at the expense of Firefox and Apple Computer's Safari, according to NetApplications.com.
Microsoft has released the preview version of its second beta of Internet Explorer 7, which the company said sports increased security and a better interface.
Fedora Core, a popular flavor of Linux being developed by the open-source community, is hardly hefty by Tuesday's operating system standards. But to fit the tight specs for the US$100 laptop being designed by MIT's One-Lap-Per-Child (OLPC) group, Fedora will need to go on a crash diet, concedes its overseer, Red Hat.
Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of standards and open-source, sees 2006 as the year when a number of industries will move to embrace open-source software -- and he expects IBM to play a role in many of those efforts. Sutor, who spoke with Computerworld Monday, also weighed in on the role of Linux and offered his thoughts on Massachusetts' OpenDocument plans.
Apache Geronimo 1.0, the recently-released open-source Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server, now has its first commercial support provider: Covalent Technologies.
Microsoft has released public beta versions of two of the three applications comprising its upcoming Expression suite of Web and content design software.
Microsoft last week released what it described as "go live" beta versions of development tools for building Web services and workflow-enabled applications under the company's upcoming WinFX programming model.
Cleveland's Key Bank is keeping its own bank balance healthy by moving much of its back-end infrastructure to Linux.
Scammers hoping to sell high-priced subscriptions for a now-defunct Microsoft programming magazine may have picked the wrong audience to try to rip off.
Two of Silicon Valley's leading players, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, pledged a renewal of their on-again, off-again alliance Tuesday, while taking shots at common rivals such as Microsoft and IBM.
Microsoft said Tuesday that it will push back the end date for supporting software products by 10 to 15 days to match its release of security patches to customers.
Mandriva, now the third-largest Linux distributor behind Red Hat and Novell, is pushing to move from its consumer and small-business market niches into the realm of enterprise IT.
The holiday shopping season is bringing tidings both comforting and not so comforting to Linux vendors that are looking to break into the Windows-dominated market for point-of-sale terminals used in retail stores.