Latest Linux and open source news.
In-depth: What’s new in Firefox 2.0, 07/12/06
It’s a new day for Mozilla. Only a few days after OneStat reported that its Firefox Web browser has reached nearly 13% market share worldwide, the open-source software development organization Wednesday released Beta 1 of Firefox 2.0. With this release, Firefox devotees will be widely testing the next version of the browser.
IBM unveils security management software, 07/17/06
IBM this week debuted security information management software that the company says will help large customers better integrate their security and operation management efforts.
Messaging vendors tout Exchange alternatives, 07/17/06
A pair of e-mail vendors this week will take aim at Microsoft Exchange with servers designed to give users alternatives to the back-end messaging platform.
Linux breeds Boeing’s new jets in Australia,07/13/06
Hawker de Havilland, the Australian arm of aircraft engineering giant Boeing, will retire its 30-year-old VAX system in favor of its new Linux-based environment in the manufacture of parts for the company’s next-generation 787 jets.
Ruby programmers to get Visual Studio link,07/13/06
Software to be formally introduced later this year will link the Ruby programming language and the open source Ruby on Rails Web framework to Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 application development platform.
BakBone claims disk space reporting breakthrough,07/13/06
BakBone has introduced centralized reporting for distributed NetVault backup jobs and a disk space analysis tool able to send file pick lists direct to NetVault. NetVault: Report Manager 3 has two modules to carry out these functions.
IBM launches low cost server for small business ERP, 07/11/06
In a move to reassure small-business customers that it plans to support Oracle.’s software products for years to come, IBM announced a server package on Tuesday.
Tips, checklist to deploy tape virtualization, 07/12/06
Virtual tape libraries have become a popular storage topic for IBM mainframes as well as Linux, Unix and Windows environments. VTLs are a building block for deploying tiered storage as well as to support disk-to-disk data protection (3DP) including …
Google backs OpenDocument format, 07/12/06
Google has joined a U.S.-based lobbying group supporting the use of the OpenDocument file format (ODF).
Firefox use growing around the world, study says, 07/12/06
After a brief period of little growth this spring, The Mozilla Foundation’s open-source Firefox Web browser is again gaining ground on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Ingres picks NYSE CTO as its president, 07/12/06
Open-source database provider Ingres Tuesday hired the CTO of the New York Stock Exchange as president and chief operating officer.
