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Red Hat should be only Linux distro
One Oracle exec said there should be only one Linux distribution--Red Hat--and claimed there will be no fragmentation of that code base.
In an interview with the Linux Foundation recently, Oracle's chief corporate architect said Oracle Unbreakable Linux is not a product but a support program and he believes that there ought to be only one Linux distribution--his rival's code base.
SCO says Linux a copy of Unix
SCO chief executive Darl McBride claims that Linux is a copy of Unix, which is contradicted by the open-source community and apparently runs counter to other SCO testimony.
SCO sued IBM in 2003, claiming that the IT giant had used copyright code from the Unix operating system which SCO sold, and later extended this suit to other Linux vendors. However, last August, Judge Dale Kimball ruled that Novell, not SCO, owns Unix. A four-day court case is now determining Novell's claim for up to $20 million in royalties from SCO, which declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.
CEOs battle to keep pace with change
The IBM Global CEO Study, the largest study of chief executives ever conducted, reveals a dramatic increase in the number of global business leaders who see important change ahead, and also highlights how the ability to absorb and manage change is widening the gap between winners and losers in the global economy.
CEOs reported a surprising level of optimism about change as an opportunity to build new competitive advantage. Overall, 83 percent of surveyed CEOs expect substantial change in the future, an increase of 28 percent in just two years. However, CEOs report their ability to effectively manage change is increasing at a far slower pace.
Donofrio, Zeitler to exit
Two of IBM's most senior executives, technology strategy chief Nick Donofrio and hardware chief Bill Zeitler, will retire later this year, an IBM memo showed on Monday.
Chief Executive Sam Palmisano announced the retirements in an email to employees obtained by Reuters. Bob Moffat will take Zeitler's job as Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Systems and Technology, overseeing computer and microchips and keep his current role focused on IBM's supply chain.
A variety of executives will take on roles from Donofrio, whose title is Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology, Palmisano said. Spokesman Ed Barbini confirmed the moves and said the change was normal as, traditionally, executives retire around age 60. Zeitler would be 61 and Donofrio 63 when they retired, he said.
Create secure Java applications
This is the second in a two-part tutorial series on creating secure Java-based Web applications using Rational Application Developer, Data Studio and Rational AppScan. In Part 1 you developed a Java Web application with Rational Application Developer, and then deployed the application on WebSphere Application Server with Java Server Pages (JSP). This tutorial shows you how to scan the Wealth application created in Part 1 using Rational AppScan to discover and fix all known Web security vulnerabilities. It also shows how to re-scan your application and generate reports.
SAP, IBM still chummy
Executives from IBM and SAP said the two companies won't fall out even though they now compete head-on in the market for BI (business intelligence) software, with their respective purchases of Cognos and Business Objects.
SAP provides such a big chunk of business for IBM Global Business Services that the two sides are unlikely to disrupt their close partnership, said Don Mettica, an official from that unit, during a panel discussion at SAP's Sapphire conference in Orlando this week. "We see this space continuing to grow," he said.
OpenSolaris, NetBeans updates
Sun Microsystems is kicking off this JavaOne week with a host of news regarding its OpenSolaris operating system and NetBeans integrated development environment.
Company officials made the announcements May 5 at Sun's CommunityOne Developer Conference, which essentially is a prelude to the JavaOne event that runs May 6-9 in San Francisco.
At CommunityOne, Sun and the OpenSolaris community announced the availability of OpenSolaris, in a distribution that had previously been known as Project Indiana. OpenSolaris is based on the Solaris kernel and created through community collaboration.
David's cure for insomnia
For those of you who happen to be awake at 4am Rocky Mountain time, David will be broadcasting on the 50,000 watt radio station KOA-850AM, doing the after-midnight show with Rick Barber and talking about White House email and the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerrys. Just so you know, in order to do this at 4am Rocky Mountain time, David's got to be conscious and lucid at 6am Florida time.
If you know our fearless leader, you know he's definitely not a 6am kinda guy, so the only way this is going to fly is stay up and do the show before going to bed. In any case, if you happen to be up at 4am and located pretty much anywhere on the western side of the US (50,000 watts reaches a long distance at night), you can tune in. You can also listen via their Web feed, should you be in a different part of the world. David promises to do his best to keep you awake throughout the full hour.
And, if you're mature and sleeping, like all good people should be at that hour, we'll post the download link sometime in the next day or so when it makes it online.
Clustering WebSphere Commerce V6.0
This tutorial takes you through step-by-step instructions for installing WebSphere Commerce V6.0 with a remote IBM HTTP Web server and a remote DB2 database. You will create a WebSphere Commerce instance and publish one of the sample stores. You will also learn about the installation process and how to configure a WebSphere Commerce system.
IBM, Google collaborate on cloud
Google and IBM committed to working more closely on cloud computing Thursday at IBM's Business Partnership Leadership Conference in Los Angeles. The companies said they were extending a joint research project that started last October.
"Cloud computing is the story of our lifetime," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said. "Eventually all devices will be on the network."
He was joined onstage by IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, who said the relationship marks a new avenue for Big Blue. "It is the first time we have taken something from the consumer arena and applied it to the enterprise," he said.
Military computer contractor convicted of ID theft
A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded guilty to exceeding authorized access to a computer and aggravated identity theft after he was accused of selling names and Social Security numbers of 17,000 military employees, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Randall Craig, 41, of Houston, pleaded guilty Friday to both counts of an indictment returned in April by a grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Craig acknowledged selling information contained in a military database to a person he believed to represent a foreign government, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The person who purchased the names and Social Security numbers from Craig was an undercover FBI agent, they said.
Create and deploy Data Web Services
Data Studio, the new unified tooling platform for IBM data servers, provides a feature that allows easy exposure of database operations as Web services, also known as IBM Data Web Services. This tutorial series will show how Web services created with DWS can be deployed on IBM's WebSphere Application Server and how WebSphere Application Server enhanced features in terms of security, transaction capabilities and more, can be leveraged to turn your Data Web Service application into a powerful, secure, and reliable enterprise Web service.
Sun to cut up to 2500 jobs
The US computer firm Sun Microsystems has reported an unexpected three-month loss and announced plans to cut between 1500 and 2500 jobs. It blamed costs relating to its takeover of the Swedish software firm MySQL as well as disappointing orders from US customers. The job cuts represent up to 7.5% of Sun's total workforce of 33,500.
Migrate WASCE apps to WAS
A new tool available from alphaWorks can help you migrate existing J2EE V1.4 applications from Apache Geronimo-based IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V2.0.x to IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1.
Six phases of a technology flop
There's a saying that greatness doesn't happen overnight. Well, the same can often be said for great flops. Technology flops go through their own stages, from promising new technology to overhyped beast to oblivion. Here's a look at the six stages of technology flops, using the rise and fall of push technology as an example.
Indian techies snubbing US jobs
Graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology so called "IITians" told Evalueserve that India was fast catching up with the US for the range and quality of career prospects. Between 1964 and 2001 the number of IITians staying in India was 65 percent but this jumped to 84 percent between 2002 and 2008.
The survey of 667 IITians found this was being fuelled by shifting attitudes, between 1964 and 2001 60 per cent believed developed countries offered the best employment prospects but this fell to 51 per cent between 2002 and 2008, with 49 per cent believing India now offered better opportunities.
Validating performance in a J2EE application
This tutorial shows you how to tune a typical J2EE application for performance by analyzing database usage and by using the Rational Application Developer Java Profiler to identify costly operations.
SCO trial begins
More than four years after filing a lawsuit about alleged misuse of the Unix operating system, the SCO Group will get its days in court, beginning today in Salt Lake City.
The defendant will be Novell, which SCO sued in 2004. SCO also had filed a lawsuit over Unix in 2003 against International Business Machines Corp.
SCO's lawsuit against IBM claims the company had violated an agreement by inserting Unix code into Linux, a free "open source" computer operating system distributed by IBM that competes with proprietary Unix.
Reiser conviction may kill ReiserFS
Software developer Hans Reiser was found guilty today of first degree murder in the death of his wife in late 2006, a conviction that carries up to 25 years in prison and a possible death sentence for the Reiser4 file system.
ReiserFS (File System) is incorporated in the Linux kernel and is used in many top Linux distributions, although EXT3 has succeeded it a the leading file system. The Reiser4 open source project, the successor to ReiserFS also conceived by Hans Reiser, continues to be developed and supported by a group of open source programmers. In an e-mail interview over the weekend, Edward Shishkin, a top developer of Reiser4, said work continues on the file system but the fate of the open source project long term is uncertain.
IBM acquires InfoDyne
IBM announced it has acquired InfoDyne Corporation, a privately held software company based in Park Ridge, Illinois. InfoDyne is a leader in high-speed platforms and data feed connectors which combined with IBM's WebSphere technology will help clients extend transactional integrity to low-latency environments. Financial details were not disclosed.
InfoDyne provides software that is designed to enable today's highly competitive trading firms and other venues to process exploding data volumes at microsecond response rates. InfoDyne's market data delivery platform and rich feed handler portfolio take data from hundreds of sources and deliver it in a standardized format, helping customers to control escalating data feed costs.
IBM Uncages Cheetah 2 Data Server
Less than a year after unleashing its "Cheetah" data server, IBM is set to release a new version of its software with enhanced availability.
IDS(Informix Dynamic Sever) 11.5, code-named "Cheetah 2," builds on the failover-recovery capabilities of its predecessor by now supporting full read/write transactions across all nodes. The last version of IDS only supported reads on secondary nodes, the company said. The latest version of IDS will be available worldwide beginning on May 6.
Oracle closes BEA deal
Oracle said Tuesday that it closed its acquisition of BEA Systems following European Commission approval.
In a statement, Oracle president Charles Phillips BEA will help the company's vision of a "a modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure" and provide "a series of complementary and well-engineered middleware products."
HPC here to stay
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz said high-performance computing is alive and well, noting that he sells Sun gear to newer Web 2.0 companies that ask for large multiprocessor systems to scale their businesses.
Schwartz, easily the most prominent C-level executive blogging for a major high-tech company, made his comments April 25 at the Web 2.0 Expo.
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