The maker of high-end systems plans to move into the midrange market with the release of a 16-processor Altix designed to appeal to companies with more modest budgets.
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OSNews has posted a new editorial: "The Future of Linux is Proprietary"
SCO Group Inc., the software company that is suing IBM and extracting royalties from other Linux (users, said on Friday that it had held "low-level talks" with Internet search engine Google about a license agreement.
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What's in your box? has posted some info about a Linux based iTunes server.
This article looks at the internal mechanisms of Open Grid Services Architecture - Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI) and explains how they interact with each other as well as with the user's application. This article provides you with a better understanding of the potential of OGSA-DAI through the exposure of some of the lesser-known features.
Sun Microsystems is pondering a long-term desktop strategy for Linux that may mean changing its arrangement with SuSE, which currently provides the Linux distribution for Sun's desktop platform.
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Wind River, one of the top makers of operating systems for embedded computing devices such as network gear or digital media players, has joined the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, the company said Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Struts is an Apache Jakarta project providing a very popular open source framework for building Web applications. WebSphere Portal V5.0 provides the Struts Portlet Framework that supports the deployment of Struts applications as portlets. This article focuses on the implementation and configuration required to deploy a Struts application as a portlet. It will show you how to quicklly create a portlet using the Jakarta Struts Framework.
The Linux seller teams up with IBM to bundle its software with Big Blue products geared for high-tech cash registers.
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Linux will expand its presence in key markets, while offshore outsourcing will continue at a brisk pace in 2004, Forrester Research predicts.
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The C programming language defines two standard memory management functions: malloc() and free(). C programmers frequently use those functions to allocate buffers at run time to pass data between functions. In many situations, however, you cannot predetermine the actual sizes required for the buffers, which may cause several fundamental problems for constructing complex C programs. This article advocates a self-managing, abstract data buffer. It outlines a pseudo-C implementation of the abstract buffer and details the advantages of adopting this mechanism.
Japan's Miracle Linux Corp. and China's Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. are jointly developing a Linux server platform for corporate and government users in the Asian market.
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Novell is integrating its two major Linux acquisitions, SuSE Linux and Ximian, in a move to bring enterprises back on board.
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SAP Web Application Server support high availability through the technique called switchover. The installation, configuration, and testing procedures are documented to provide readers with step-by-step guidelines in building an overall highly-available system with DB2 and SAP. There's an intro, and resource page, which contains links to related whitepapers and websites. Or you can go directly to the PDF that describes the integration of DB2 Universal Database, SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.70, and Sun Cluster 3.1 on the Solaris 9 environment.
The popular open-source database is now available for the HP-UX operating system as well as for Linux running on Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 chip.
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University researcher Walt Scacchi leads a team that investigates the inner workings of open-source development, including the growing number of corporate-sponsored projects.
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Web site user modeling, a mathematical discipline, is easier than you might expect. In this tutorial, Paul Meagher shows you how to construct a user-modeling platform with PHP and MySQL -- technologies well suited for a species of user-modeling called Web site user modeling. Even small Web-development shops can use clickstream data to build Web site user models.
Using a test automation application as an example, this article demonstrates how WebSphere Application Server's HttpSession capabilities can be exploited to secure Java servlet Web applications, at a level of granularity lower than that of the J2EE programmatic security model.
A lot has happened in the RSS world. Two new specifications have come out, RSS has become one of the most popular XML standards, and tools and feeds are popping up everywhere. RSS has contributed to the explosion of weblogs, and it is becoming a standard part of other Web sites, too. This article reviews RSS 2.0, looks at new RSS developments, and jump-starts your understanding of this important format.
Just three years after Sun Microsystems paid $2 billion in stock for server appliance maker Cobalt Networks, Sun kills off the storied Cobalt product line.
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