IBM counted noses and says there are now nearly 1,000 Linux applications that run on its mainframes, a 100% jump over this time last year, a fact it attributes to virtualization and basic mainframe performance. IBM recently reported a 390% jump in mainframe sites ...

In its first indication of how its six-week old frontal assault on Red Hat has been going, Oracle said Monday during its Q2 conference call that people downloaded 9,000 copies of its freebie indemnified Unbreakable Linux Red Hat replacement in the first 30 days.

and foreclosed opportunities for AMD to sell America-made MPUs at home and abroad and foreign-made chips to domestic clients - and that that would include foreign discovery considering 68% of the market is overseas.

Novell claims Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies, part of the big insurance company, are taking advantage of the infamous Microsoft-Novell interoperability pact. Microsoft is supposed to provide them with SUSE subscription certificates, the bulk of...

Lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison is the new open source folk hero. He has quit Novell because of the patent clause in the company's controversial seven-week-old alliance with Microsoft under which Novell pays Microsoft royalties and in turn gets SUSE Linux an...

Anyway, the survey, whose results were released by Novell, is supposed to show that 80%-90% of the 201 people surveyed back the idea of improving the interoperability between Windows Server and SUSE and having tools that make managing mixed environments easier. No...

Sun has released its downloadable next-generation Java Platform Standard Edition 6 and no it's not open source, even if it's the first Java developed closer to the open source way, a process of supposedly open review, weekly builds and the input of a reported 330 ...

Following the recent launch of VOYAGER Edge 6.0, Recursion Software announced the availability of Voyager Edge 6.0.1 Community Edition. This community license provides developers free access to the complete VOYAGER Edge framework for developing and extending app...

Infragistics Inc. has released TestAdvantage for Windows Forms 2006 Volume 3, a collection of custom libraries built using Mercury Interactive QuickTest Professional .NET add-in extensibility, for use with Windows Forms applications built using NetAdvantage for Windows Forms controls.

IBM has announced new provisioning software that will help accelerate the deployment time for Microsoft Windows Vista customers. The new IBM software reduces the time it takes to manually deploy or upgrade a computer, including an operating system deployment, to less than a minute.

HP has announced a broad portfolio of 'Microsoft-Ready' products; services and solutions to help ensure customers experience a seamless transition to Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. HP will support the latest M...

'Macrovision's enhanced AdminStudio offering enables our customers to prepare applications for distribution across the enterprise with more control and efficiency on Windows operating systems, including Windows Vista,' said Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision Corpora...

Microsoft has announced that Maria Martinez has been named corporate vice president of Worldwide Services, effective Jan. 5, 2007. Martinez will continue in her role as corporate vice president of the Communications Sector at Microsoft through the remainder of the...

'It is very hard for anyone that has tried Vista to actually go back to an older platform,' said Ali Faramawy, Microsoft VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, as Microsoft surprised the world by launching Vista for business users today in the Arabian Gulf, at the GITEX trade show.

Fresh on the heels of its eyebrow-raising interoperability pact with Novell and Novell's brand of Linux, Microsoft Tuesday kicked off an Interop Vendor Alliance with two-dozen other companies in the name of making their products work better with Microsoft systems.

Microsoft has announced the availability of Microsoft Office Live in the United States at http://www.officelive.com after being in beta for nine months, and its free beta availability in Japan, France, the U.K. and Germany on Nov. 21. Customers can sign up for Off...

Today at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo, the largest event targeting the retail banking industry, Microsoft made its case to banks on the virtues of the Windows Vista operating system and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, releasing a white paper that sh...

Microsoft has announced a new initiative that provides prescriptive architecture guidance, tools and reference implementations aimed at achieving consistency in banking integration at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo.

Small-business owners who visit participating CompUSA stores nationwide will be able to purchase Windows Vista Business and Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 -products specifically designed for small businesses - through Microsoft's Small Business Value Program...

The long march to Windows Vista is finally over. But only 14% of CIOs intend to upgrade to Vista next year, according to a Merrill Lynch CIO survey, 15% to Office 2007. The brokerage says 'There is some hesitation among respondents to upgrade in '08, with an incre...

'ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2 is the next milestone in Microsoft web development. It allows for excellent client-side interactivity that provides developers with new paradigms for improving the user-experience,' says Tony Lombardo, Product Manager for NetAdvantage for AS...

Infragistics has released the NetAdvantage for .NET 2006 Volume 3, providing developers with the ability to create ASP.NET and Windows Forms applications with the new look and feel of Microsoft Office 2007, using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2003 or 2002.

Microsoft has unveiled new technologies that enable developers to build next-generation interactive applications for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and the Web. The new technologies are designed to help developers build Web services and connected,...

Microsoft has announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM). This gold code milestone concludes the largest Microsoft Office beta program to date, with more than 3.5 million people downloading Be...

At Convergence 2006 EMEA, the first Convergence event in EMEA, Microsoft has announced an offering of new tools, services and role-based solutions to help simplify the deployment, management and support of IT infrastructure for midsize businesses.

In his keynote address at Convergence 2006 EMEA, the first Convergence event in EMEA, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates discussed a leading challenge facing organizations today: how to help companies maximize productivity by helping them bridge 'the last mile' between...

Microsoft Game Studios is teaming up with the Georgia Aquarium to introduce an educational initiative that will help excite and inform students about the complexity of and caring for marine life. Microsoft, the Georgia Aquarium and AirTran Airways have announced a...

Craig Mundie, Microsoft chief research and strategy officer, has announced the availability of Windows Embedded CE 6.0, the latest version of the company's industry-leading software toolkit used to build real-time operating systems for devices such as Internet p...

'Interoperability continues to be an important requirement for our customers, particularly when it comes to open source applications that run on Windows,' said Bill Hilf, GM of Technical Platform Strategy at Microsoft, as Microsoft and Zend Technologies Inc. today...

Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Office Live, a set of Internet-based services tailored to the needs of small businesses, will be coming out of beta in the United States Nov. 15. These services are expanding internationally as well and are also scheduled for...

Microsoft and Zend Technologies have announced a technical collaboration to enhance the experience of running the PHP scripting language on Windows Server 2003. The parties expect to extend the collaboration to the next version of Windows Server, code-named 'Lon...

Less than one week after IDC released a study sponsored by Microsoft detailing the risks of using counterfeit software, and six weeks after Microsoft released its own forensic analysis of counterfeit discs, Microsoft announced a series of criminal and civil action...

The CMA CGM Group, the world's third largest shipping company, and IBM have announced the creation of a 50-50 joint venture to provide CMA CGM with enhanced core information technology systems to support and accelerate its strong growth. IBM will provide IT expert...

Microsoft has released to the public Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP. This latest version of Windows Media Player offers consumers a test-drive of the breakthrough capabilities in Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista, including enhanced searc...

Microsoft has announced the availability of Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007, financial management software designed for early startups and home-based businesses that currently use pen and calculator or spreadsheets to run their operations. Office Accoun...

. Folks who buy PCs between now and March 15 with XP pre-installed will be given coupons to upgrade to the new operation system because Vista won't be out until January. The same applies to Office 2007. The terms of the coupons vary from OEM to OEM and model to model.

InnerWorkings has signed an agreement with Microsoft to deliver its flagship product to thousands of developers through the Microsoft Developer & Platform Readiness program. The company will offer its entire catalog of Microsoft .NET Framework coding challenges an...

Microsoft has announced that the Get Net Safe tour, designed to help people learn how to become more safe and secure on the Internet, will stop in Charlotte for several days. The multiple-stop tour, with events Oct. 24-26 in the Charlotte metropolitan area, will g...

The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) has presented its highest award to Microsoft in recognition of the company's sustained support of public historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and African-American students. Microsoft was honored with ...

In his keynote address at the RSA Conference Europe 2006, Microsoft Security Technology Unit Corporate Vice President Ben Fathi discussed the evolution of the computing ecosystem and malicious software landscape, and called on the IT security industry to team with ...