Articles by Elizabeth Millard

The Japanese government is partnering with 19 companies, including NEC, Fujitsu and IBM Japan, to encourage Linux use in the country's school system The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, also known as METI, is spearheading the project and has expressed a desire to limit the dominance of Microsoft Windows. Currently, the Windows operating system...

Silicon Graphics (SGI) announced that NASA has chosen the company's Altix as the foundation of Project Columbia, a collaboration between SGI and Intel that is expected to foster scientific breakthroughs in space exploration, global warming research and aerospace engineering For the project, NASA plans to integrate a total of twenty 512-processor Al...

Evans Data today released survey results showing that 90 percent of Linux systems have never been infected by a virus, and nearly 80 percent have never been hacked The survey of 500 Linux developers worldwide was conducted earlier this month. The respondents' answers were compared to another survey done by Evans in the spring, the North American De...

Although The SCO Group and its former investor, BayStar Capital, seemed to have resolved their differences in June, a new flare-up has occurred, resulting in threats of legal action toward SCO The latest dispute revolves around licensing opportunities available in the SCO source program....

Novell has announced that it has acquired Salmon, a British IT servicescompany, in a deal that will link Salmon with Cambridge TechnologyPartners, another Novell acquisition The company also revealed some efforts that it will be making throughits earlier acquisition of SuSE Linux. It noted that Novell isdeveloping a slimmed-down version of the prod...

A Michigan judge has dismissed the SCO Group's lawsuit against automobile maker DaimlerChrysler DaimlerChrysler had brought several motions for summary disposition inthe case, and Michigan Circuit Court Judge Rae Lee Chabot ruled Wednesdayin favor of all but one of them. The exception concerns the amount oftime it took for DaimlerChrysler to respon...

SAP has announced that its second quarter earnings rose by 15 percentin software revenue, as well as by 15 percent in operating income and 14percent in net income. The numbers are close to what the company had anticipated when itestimated its performance in early July. It released predictions at thattime in order to allay analyst fears brought on ...

Just as technology has changed the landscape of corporate environments, it is predicted to transform how medicine is done, according to a recent survey The 2004 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study was conducted by Hospitals & Health Networks, a publication put out by the American Hospital Association. After reviewing technology implementation ...

In a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, officials from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names are hammering out details for self-rule in an effort to separate itself from the U.S. Department of Commerce The ICANN group, which is responsible for coordinating the Internet's naming and numbering systems, has brought together government agencies, private bu...

Linux Networx today announced that the European Centre forMedium-Range Weather Forecasts has chosen the company forimplementation of a Linux-based cluster computing system. The system, an Evolocity II Linux Networx cluster, will be used toevaluate the suitability of cluster technology for broader deploymentwithin the center's high performance prod...

With Linux implementation in full swing in Europe, many analysts are now turning their attention toward growth in Asia, one of the largest markets yet to be dominated by a single vendor Andrew Chetham, an analyst in Gartner's Hong Kong office, told LinuxInsider that the market in China is especially hungry for technology. Despite government crackdo...

A federal judge in Nevada has granted AutoZone's request to put SCO Group's copyright infringement case over the auto parts retailer's switch from Unix to Linux on hold. The auto parts retailer had asked the federal court in Nevada to stay the case until SCO's other, related lawsuits against IBM and Novell are finished, as well asRed Hat's suit ag...

Former Red Hat and Cygnus Solutions executives Kim Knuttila and Eric Troan announced yesterday that they had formed Specifix, an open-source company producing Linux solutions The new company brings together other executives and experts from the Linux and GNU open-source development tools communities....

A new consortium called the Trusted Electronic Communications Forum (TECF) has brought together top companies in the financial and technology industries to tackle phishing and spoofing attacks aimed at stealing personal information Phishing and spoofing are a kind of bait-and-switch often used for identity theft. Gartner vice president and research...

The French Ministry of Equipment will be migrating to Linux, replacing 1,500 office and infrastructure Microsoft Windows NT servers with Mandrakelinux Corporate servers. Mandrakesoft, a top European Linux player, also was chosen for deployment, training and support for the Linux strategy Mandrakesoft noted that the Linux distributions based on its ...

The SCO Group last week sought to stop a summary judgment filed by IBM by submitting written arguments that claim IBM has mischaracterized the lawsuit and failed to provide relevant information to the company If IBM is successful in gaining a summary judgment, the case would essentially see a quick end. SCO is seeking to keep the court from such a ...

The Mozilla Foundation has issued a patch for a security vulnerability discovered Thursday in the organization's open source Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. The security flaw, known as the "shell exploit," could allow attackers to run programs on Windows XP. Users of other operating systems, including Mac ...

The Mozilla Foundation has issued a patch for a security vulnerability discovered Thursday in the organization's open source Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. The security flaw, known as the "shell exploit," could allow attackers to run programs on Windows XP. Users of other operating systems, including Mac ...

Microsoft unveiled plans Tuesday to release stripped-down versions of its Visual Studio developer's tools and SQL Server database in an attempt to appeal to nonprofessional programmers The inexpensive, lightweight "Express" versions are intended for people who write programs but do not work as software developers. This audience, which has been esti...

Red Hat and Novell announced Monday that they will start bundling RealNetwork's Helix Player with their operating system products. The companies also noted that they will offer upgrades to RealPlayer 10 for Linux when that application is launched later this year Helix is a free, open-source media player developed by the Helix Community, a nonprofit...