It does not command nearly 50 per cent of the server market. Apache and its brothers require considerably more knowledge about software, networks and security to be able to install and set up, and it is much more likely that the kind of people able...
Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move designed to pose a serious challenge Microsoft's dominant Office.
The guides are Microsoft's latest tactic in the battle to help better secure customers who install its software, as part of the Trustworthy Computing Initiative, the giant's 15-month-old strategy to increase customers' faith in its products.
Oracle 10g is designed to allow companies to link multiple databases in a grid, or cluster, of several low-cost hardware servers. Grid computing unites pools of servers, storage systems and networks into one large system that better tackles complex...
Gone are the days where you could just compile some readily available source and just give it an IP (that you found with your ultra-fast banner scanner) on the command line, and drop a root shell in the newest distribution of RedHat," he said.
A grid computing project launched by the BBC, the Met Office and others back in 2003 has seen more than 50,000 users volunteer their home computing power in the name of climate change. The grid project discovered the UK's average temperature is...