The JBoss application server, based on Java, runs on Linux, Unix and Windows systems. Two companies on opposite sides of the open source philosophical divide, JBoss and Microsoft, have signed a partnership to make their server software work...
With NetWare 6.5, the company has further tied the Apache, Tomcat and JBoss Web application servers and the MySQL database into Novell's network management scheme. In addition to competing with Microsoft, which is set to ship its oft-delayed...
Mac OS X now supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) 3 for managing network policies, users and computer resources. With a few tweaks, it works with Active Directory," Goguen said, referring to Windows 2000 Server's software tool for...
Despite the attention of the DoJ and the European Commission, Longbottom singled out the Active Directory part of Windows 2000 for praise. However, he warned that Microsoft partner Cisco Systems - which has been working with the technology for...
But Big Blue repeated concerns to it had with certain elements of Win2000, most notably Active Directory, the operating system's network management tool. It's a strong operating system, but it has added some things that other operating systems have...
Version 6.5 comes with a bundle of open source products - Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Tom Cat - signalling that Novell has now determined an open source strategy. To make mobile data services operate like a utility requires identities to be managed...