Jim Wagner

IBM’s announcement that it would offer desktop applications server side isn’t a new concept. Sun Microsystems has offered a similar product for three years. Both are trying to chip away at the dominance Microsoft and its desktop Office suite enjoys in the workplace. But analysts say enterprise infrastructure has evolved to a point that enables […]

Beta tests begin next month on Microsoft’s next iteration of enterprise instant messaging (IM) software, Live Communication Server 2005 (LCS 2005), in the hopes the final product will be ready in time for Christmas. “We want customers to be confident in the fact that our business unit at Microsoft is going to be putting out […]

This hasn’t been the best of weeks for enterprise software maker Computer Associates . The company saw the forced resignation of chairman and CEO Sanjay Kumar on the heels of the dismissal of nine employees amid an accounting scandal. After employees from the company’s finance and legal divisions were fired Monday, on Wednesday Kumar was […]

UPDATED: Wall Street reaction to the ouster of Computer Associates former chairman of the board and CEO Sanjay Kumar was mixed as the market closed Wednesday. CA’s new chairman of the board, Lewis Ranieri, announced on Wednesday morning the company’s decision to drop Kumar, who helmed the software giant through one of the biggest financial […]

UPDATE: The SCO Group will file lawsuits against two commercial Linux operating system users Tuesday night and announce their names Wednesday, officials said. Company spokesperson Blake Stowell told internetnews.com the lawsuits had not been filed yet and would not be filed in Utah but would be before the courts closed for the day. At press […]

Sun Microsystems used the opening day activities of the RSA Conference 2004 in San Francisco to announce the launch of a sweeping security initiative to include all its software products, officials said Tuesday. First to get the security treatment — which ties together authentication, identity management and risk management — is the Santa Clara, Calif., […]

Less than a week after it discovered that parts of its Windows 2000 and NT source code were leaked to the Internet, Microsoft officials are now finding that a kind of grassroots peer review of its code is sprouting among programmers and the merely curious from all points of the globe. The Redmond, Wash., creator […]

The SCO Group took its intellectual property challenge of Linux to Harvard on Monday and received a cold reception from area students opposed to the company’s legal tactics. In a presentation hosted by the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology on Monday, Darl McBride, SCO president and CEO, and Chris Sontag, senior vice president and […]

Microsoft officials launched a last-minute reminder to Windows users Monday afternoon to prevent the spread of the MyDoom.B virus that’s targeting its home page. MyDoom.B is a variant of the W32.Novarg.A@mm (MyDoom.A) e-mail virus — which targeted the SCO Group Sunday — that sends Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express users an official-looking email with a […]

Supporters of Linux cried foul this week when Microsoft rolled out research reports that it commissioned from research firms IDC, Giga Research and the META Group that questioned total cost of ownership (TCO) of the open source operating system.In the process, analysts involved with the reports are finding themselves under fire over them, including one […]