Jim Wagner

IBM announced the launch of a SUSE Linux development and certification program for ISVs at nine of its 25 Innovation Centers, officials said Wednesday. The addition of the popular Novell Linux distribution comes three months after the Armonk, N.Y., IT giant launched a similar program for developers on the Red Hat platform. The certification initiative […]

A coalition of eight tech companies has formed the Compliance and Management Electronic Information (CMEI) working group in a bid to give companies a hand in formulating a comprehensive compliance framework for their business. The group, made up of Oracle , Hewlett-Packard , Veritas, Sun Microsystems , Open Text , Hitachi Data Systems, Network Appliance […]

IBM is handing over more than 30 of its open source projects to the popular SourceForge.net repository, officials announced Friday. The Armonk, N.Y., company also announced a partnership with Zend Technologies to integrate its database into PHP . Officials said that while IBM hosts a lot of open source projects from its developerWorks site, the […]

A group of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) advocates is calling for a boycott of technology using discriminatory patent terms at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), according to an open letter Tuesday. In his letter, Lawrence Rosen, who stepped down from his role as general counsel and secretary of […]

Computer Associates finalized its executive transition on Wednesday, naming John Swainson its new CEO. CA selected Swainson, a 26-year IBM veteran, in November to fill the role temporarily held by Kenneth Cron. Cron replaced former CEO Sanjay Kumar in April in the wake of the company’s “35 day” financial scandal. John SwainsonSource: CA Cron will […]

Officials at Computer Associates have announced the launch of a new asset management tool designed to provide information on the hardware and software used throughout the enterprise. Unicenter Asset Intelligence r11 is an add-on to Unicenter Asset Management r11 (you need the latter to run the former), which identifies hardware and software on the corporate […]

IBM said Tuesday it is pledging 500 software patents to developers of open source software so they can develop without fear. The patents are available to those who abide by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and use one of 50 OSI-certified licenses. The Armonk, N.Y., company said it wants the 500 patents to form a […]

Officials at Delta Air Lines subsidiary Comair said they have been in constant talks with federal authorities about last week’s disruptions, even before a public memo aired by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Norman Mineta. In a memorandum to Kenneth Mead, the DOT’s inspector general, Mineta requested an “expedited review” of the events […]

As the official death toll from the tsunami in southern Asia grew, tech players were offering any aid and support they could in response to devastation. Fortune 500 companies and individual bloggers were offering donations and free services in order to support relief operations to the stricken regions across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Somalia, Sumatra, […]

Novell’s promise of a blended Linux and Netware networking environment became reality with the recent launch of the public beta of Open Enterprise Server (OES). The public beta was release about a month later than originally scheduled. The software, which features the NetWare 6.5 and SuSE Linux 2.6 kernels and associated services, is a suite […]