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Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:46:14 -0800)
Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as the community takes certain steps, according to a roadmap from the Open World Forum. Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing...
Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:52 -0800)
The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code. Oracle has announced that it has contributed data-integrity code to the Linux kernel. The open-source code, which has been accepted into the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, is designed to reduce data corruption...
40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source, study (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:45:01 -0800)
By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule in the cloud - with the result that 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, according to a report. By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule...
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:23:27 -0800)
Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced. Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document...
CIOs vote on Vista for '09 (Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:31:50 -0800)
Silicon.com's CIO jury ruled unanimously on the question of whether to implement Microsoft Windows Vista in 2009. The latest silicon.com CIO Jury has unanimously voted that they are not ready to invest in Microsoft's latest OS Vista. When asked if they had any plans to implement Vista,...
IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study (Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:13:54 -0800)
The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...
Hackers boot Linux on iPhone (Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:39:18 -0800)
A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel. A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the...
Survey: CIOs 'out of the loop' (Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:16:14 -0800)
CIOs are often seen as "glorified IT directors", looking after the day-to-day running of IT systems, instead of being used to align IT with business aims. Chief information officers are "out of the loop", according to a survey carried out by London-based Deloitte and the Cranfield School of Management....
Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus? (Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:58:43 -0800)
Microsoft is dropping its subscription-based antivirus software in favor of a free package, code-named 'Morro'. ScanSafe Internet-security expert Mary Landesman investigates Microsoft's motives. Commentary--Microsoft is to replace its paid-for antivirus product with a free one, citing an altruistic desire to spread protection around the world. But many are less...
Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1 (Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:48:08 -0800)
MySQL's founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed. Sun has released version 5.1 of the open-source MySQL database software, but the software's founder simultaneously warned...
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