In the News Archive

Stat Wars: Measuring OS Market Share

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-30 In the News 5 Comments

Like any statistics, market share figures are subject to many factors that can affect the resulting pattern. Some are coincidental; others may be intentional. Are they tracking sales or users? New orders or existing user base? Servers or desktops? Domestic or worldwide? Read the article at eCommerceTimes.

Cyberposium 2004: Open Source Future Debated

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-20 In the News 1 Comment

Software industry executives sparred at Harvard Business School this weekend over open source procurement policies being adopted by some governments that could leave Microsoft in the cold. These key open source advocates also pointed to databases, security and storage as the next big categories ripe for commoditization.

Exposé-clone Available for Windows

Submitted by Anouschka 2004-01-07 In the News 50 Comments

There is now an Exposé-clone available for Windows-users to purchase. Exposé is a new function of managing open windows on Mac OS X Panther.

Writing an end to the bio of BIOS

Submitted by Josh 2003-12-30 In the News 39 Comments

Intel and Microsoft are gearing up to move toward the first major overhaul of the innermost workings of the personal computer--the boundary where software and hardware meet--during 2004.

EMC to Buy Software Firm VMware for $635 Million in Cash

Submitted by dabooty 2003-12-16 In the News 5 Comments

Data-storage giant EMC Corp. will buy VMware for $635 million. VMWare is the leading vendor of "virtual hardware infrastructure," which allows data center managers to partition servers (and desktops) into seperately-managed parts. VMWare is also important for the OS community because it helps a user run several OSes simultaneously on one machine. EMC's acquisition will certainly steer the product even more toward the enterprise space. Wonder what will happen to the workstation product?

Wind River Edges Closer to Linux

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-01 In the News 6 Comments

Wind River, the world's #1 embedded software company, moved two steps closer to Linux today, with a pair of announcements that it has joined two key organizations: the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Eclipse Consortium. This follows an October Linux tools announcement which it called "just the first step."

Gates Tops Generosity List

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-22 In the News 74 Comments

Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are the most generous charitable donors in America, Business Week magazine said this week, as the couple gave away or pledged a staggering $23 billion -- more than half of their net worth.

Bill Joy on Linux, Apple, and Technology

Submitted by Charlie 2003-11-19 In the News 64 Comments

Sun refugee Bill Joy talks about greedy markets, reckless science, and runaway technology. He goes on to describe his new love of Apple's OS X by stating that "For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon. Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux."

Gates Addresses Spam, Security Flaws at Comdex

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-17 In the News 9 Comments

Addressing a more buttoned-down crowd than in past years, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates attempted Sunday to usher in a new era of computing he dubbed "seamless computing." Check here for more Comdex reporting throughout the week.

Sun, Liberty Alliance Release Web Services ID Specs

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-13 In the News 2 Comments

"One of the biggest barriers has been that there is no standard way to authenticate and identify the various players in the delivery chain," Sun group business manager Sai Allavarpu told TechNewsWorld. "All of this is done in a privacy-friendly manner because it is baked right into the specs."

Everyone’s a Programmer

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-03 In the News 26 Comments

Software is collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Charles Simonyi’s solution? Programming tools that are so simple that even laypeople can use them.

SuSE 9 PRO Outsells OSX Panther at UK’s Amazon Sales Rank

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-29 In the News 64 Comments

The revenge of the penguin is really here: SuSE 9 PRO outsells the brand new Mac OS X 10.3 Panther in UK's Amazon! However in US' market, things are a bit different.

SciTech to Provide multi-OS Support for ATI’s Next-Gen Visual CPUs

Submitted by AndrewB 2003-10-24 In the News 28 Comments

SciTech has announced an agreement with ATI, which will enable advanced multi-OS (Linux X11, Qt/Embedded, OS/2, Athene, Amiga, SMX, and more) support for ATI's mobile, desktop and embedded visual processors in future versions of SciTech SNAP Graphics IES and ENT versions.

Look homeward, PC maker

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-24 In the News 8 Comments

PC makers usually use the holiday season to tout the greatest and latest desktops and notebooks, but this year they will be hawking something different: consumer electronics, says C|Net News. Also, OSViews posted an editorial discussing "misconceptions of PC users regarding the Mac prices".

EXCLUSIVE: Axentra Rumba Server to be Launched Soon

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-03 In the News 30 Comments

OSNews was tipped off that OEone (previous stories: 1, 2, 3), creators of the desktop HomeBase SUITE (based on Linux, X and Mozilla's APIs), now are moving to server space. Next week they are going to announce an exciting new product (under a new brand name: "Axentra Rumba Server") which puts Linux back to the server space, but with the form of a user-friendly and cute-looking appliance. *Updated*

John Sculley: Riding the Next Technology Wave

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-02 In the News 13 Comments

From where he sits, John Sculley (ex-Apple CEO) enjoys a panoramic view of the IT landscape. Read his interview at C|Net News.com.

Re-purposing Old PCs to Save Cash

Submitted by Ron Rancourt 2003-09-25 In the News 31 Comments

This is a helpful article for anyone wanting to re-purpose an old machine for friends or family members, or want to make a firewall or file server out of obsolete hardware. It contains useful hints for tech packrats, such as "throw away old PCs without PCI slots, and "if a component fails intermittently, save yourself the grief and trash it." The article even has hints for convincing your kids that what they really want it a 300 MHz PII with Linux, not a new 3 GHz PC with XP.

News Soup: Longhorn RTM, Mandrake, Lindows, GTK, Python, Patents

Submitted by various readers 2003-09-24 In the News 36 Comments

"Club members and contributors should have exclusive access to the download edition ISOs. For others, ISOs will be freely available world-wide by the end of October", MandrakeSoft said for their upcoming version of Mandrake 9.2. Mike Kestner has released an update to Gtk#, version 0.11. The EU Parliament approves Software Patent Legislation, but not for all cases. The Czech site Root.cz has a good round up (in Czech) of that's coming on GTK+ 2.4 and 2.6 (the file selector shown there is just a mockup, not the final). Python 2.3.1 is out: this minor release introduces a number of enhancements. Seagate ships first PC operating system pre-loaded on value-priced hard drives: Lindows. According to sources close to Microsoft the latest date set for Longhorn to go to manufacturing by is Aug. 15, 2005.

Gates, Mills Tout Web Services Breakthrough

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-18 In the News 16 Comments

Bill Gates and IBM Software chief Steve Mills joined together to give an update on their companies' combined work in advancing Web services.

Keeping Older Hardware Doesn’t Always Save Money

David Adams 2003-09-15 In the News 65 Comments

As many OSNews readers forced to get by with ailing, slow computers at work may know, a stingy hardware upgrade cycle can have negagitve productivity effects. However, in this age of gigahertz processors, how often do businesses really need to upgrade? Every three to four years, a recent Gartner study recommends. Now, I'm sure Dell is happy to hear this news, but is it really necessary to upgrade that often?