One possible scenario would be for Red Hat to put all of Corel's eggs in the Linux basket and either stabilise or de-prioritise development on other platforms. Informix's acquisition of Ardent will put the joint revenue of the organisations...
Post a Reader Comment below or mail editorial@silicon.com with your thoughts. Disregarding denial of service attacks, which are best tackled through concerted action by ISPs, the greatest security problem is simply the inadequate configuration of...
A week and a half ago, Aaron Greenspan, a Harvard University junior and president of consulting company Think Computer, published a white paper concluding that Exchange 5.5 and 2000 can be used by spammers to send anonymous e-mail.
The Evans Data study found that interest in low cost spilled over to the choice of operating system as well, with 62 per cent of database developers expecting some cost savings by using Linux. Developers are also keen to string together several...
Siebel has announced it will buy call centre hosting company Ineto Services for $5m, in a move it claims will allow small and medium-sized enterprises to deploy 'virtual' customer service centres at the fraction of the traditional cost.
Given the panoply of regulations that are confronting financial services firms around the world, many are now taking a 'worst case scenario' approach, getting IT and processes in line with the rules of the strictest jurisdictions in which they...