SCO filed a Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan and Disclosure Statement with the bankruptcy court in Delaware on Friday, a step on the company's path to emerging from the protective cover of bankruptcy, going private, and rejoining the fight over Linux. Pending court approval, the 63-page

Acquia has yet to price its maintenance and support subscriptions - there should be a variety of SLAs - but they're supposed to include an electronic update notification system code named Spokes for updates that have been reviewed for security and compatibility and are supported by Acq

PreEmptive Solutions announced the availability of Dotfuscator Professional 4.3. This release includes enhanced application tamper defense and heuristics that automatically extend protection to applications that incorporate advanced Microsoft .NET Framework components and programming t

Speaking to the Financial Times, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Raymond Ozzie commented last week when asked about the likely trajectory of any Microsoft-Yahoo! integration, if the companies did indeed ever merge: 'Technology companies, if they dive in and just smash things toget

In the bowels of the great Microsoft machine a team has been working on something that may or may not be called 'Mesh,' something that Microsoft chief architect Ray Ozzie hintingly described the other day during his keynote at Mix '08 as a 'kind of universal file synch' with the web as

USA.NET announced that it is using the advanced features and capabilities of Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1, SharePoint Services 3.0 and other software applications and utilities to provide its clients with a more fully integrated eMessaging experience. 'Our latest expanded integration is

AccuRev and Electric Cloud announced a technology partnership designed to improve software development productivity and efficiency. The combined solution, which integrates the automated build, test and deployment functionality of Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander software with proces

'As computing continues to become more powerful, more affordable and more connected it will give billions more people around the world a chance to take advantage of incredible new social and economic opportunities so they can lead better lives. And that will truly be revolutionary.' Wi

AccuRev announced the availability of AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase, the latest add-on to its software configuration management (SCM) solution. AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase provides coexistence for optimal support of parallel, geographically distributed and Agile development with AccuRev in e

Xceed unveiled an upgraded Xceed DataGrid for WPF. Version 2.0 of Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition features the addition of hierarchical master/detail. Xceed's support for WPF will help facilitate adoption of Microsoft's next-generation platform, which lets developers create

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 to an audience of 4,000 customers and partners at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, CA, yesterday. The top four benefits of Server 2008, Ballmer stated, are virtualization, more server role

Infragistics announced that NetAdvantage for .Net 2008 volume 1 and NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 volume 2 are compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The NetAdvantage user interface components take advantage of many of the new features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to enable devel

The European Commission this morning slapped Microsoft with a massive $1.33 billion fine (899 million euros) for charging too much for the communications protocols it was ordered to share with competitors in March of 2004. It is the largest single fine ever levied by the EC and the sec

The European Commission this morning slapped Microsoft with a massive $1.33 billion fine (899 million euros) for charging too much for the communications protocols it was ordered to share with competitors in March of 2004. It is the largest single fine ever levied by the EC and the sec

Many .NET applications fail to meet user requirements because they do not provide optimal access to underlying Oracle, Sybase, or DB2 databases. The root cause is often unmanaged ADO.NET data providers shipped by the database vendor or from Microsoft. In this paper, SQL Server MVP and

Extended Validation SSL Certificates. Extended Validation (EV) is a new standard in SSL certificates. This guide explains the needs which drove the development of this standard and how it addresses contemporary security challenges. It also delves into the integration of EV certificates

I was reading news feeds when I read a blog post that included some quotes from Bill Gates. Bill was quoted as saying that Windows 7 will make the keyboard and mouse far less important than in the past. We've all heard that crap before, it's typically what Bill used to say before attem

McObject has added support for the KD-Tree, a database index with uses in spatial and pattern-matching applications, to its Perst open source, object-oriented embedded database system. For developers working with Perst, the KD-Tree expands coding efficiency and helps make Java and .NET

Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platform and services division, sent round an email on Friday to provide Microsoft employees of the Platforms & Services Division with an update on the company's Feb. 1 proposal to combine with Yahoo! We bring you here the text in full.

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of t

The DreamSpark program is one of the newest initiatives to come out of Redmond that are very, very un-Microsoft-like. I'll talk about another later in this post. It appears as though University and high school students will, at some point (I don't know the hardcore details) be able to

Red Hat listened to Microsoft's interoperability statement Thursday and then issued a statement of its own saying it wasn't enough. It thinks Microsoft should throw in the towel on getting its Office Open XML file format standardized by ISO and 'embrace the existing ISO-approved, cross

Microsoft is doing something sensible in the face of the mounting FOSS movement. It's going to give away its software development and designer tools, its OS and database free to college and high school kids and get ?em while they're young. The offer includes Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

and Service Division that will include the four-year-old start-up EMC just agreed to buy off of him. EMC is paying cash for the Seattle-based Pi Corporation and its 100 engineers. EMC didn?t say how much but Pi was founded using Warburg-Pincus ($$$) money and EMC says the acquisition w

Microsoft and Yahoo are not negotiating a deal behind the scenes, according to what Bill Gates told the AP yesterday morning, 18 days after Microsoft made its rejected $31-a-share offer for the company. And it appears that Microsoft, whose stock has been down 12.8% since publicizing th

In this excerpt, author N. Satheesh Kumar shows us how to query different objects using LINQ operators and avoid having to use the looping method to filter the values in a collection. Without LINQ, we'd have to go through the values one-by-one and then find the required details. Howeve

Whistling past the graveyard, Yahoo! went ahead Tuesday with its thin, pre-Microsoft plans of canning a thousand non-core people worldwide in an attempt to get the firm growing in the right direction. The number actually turned out to be more like 1,100 but far from what it would take

SCO's back from the grave with a doozy of a reorganization plan and $100 million to spend pursuing its legal case against Linux. This is top-drawer coin-of-the-realm kind of money put together from the deep-pockets of the Middle East by Stephen Norris, the co-founder and former preside

Novell has acquired SiteScape, an open source, Web 2.0-style team collaboration operation that started the ICEcore open source collaboration project and whose 12-year-old taproot goes back to that Google- that-might-have-been, AltaVista. Terms were not disclosed. SAIC has funded SiteSca

db4o, an open source object database system with broad industry applicability, belongs to a popular database management systems that has close to 2 million downloads to date. Here we'll illustrate the features and application areas of such a database and compare db4o against relational

Have you ever needed to integrate an external system with SharePoint, showing content from each system within the other? What if you needed to integrate search between SharePoint and an external system? How do you keep the user experience seamless if the systems use different authentic

This book is an update of an earlier version that was written for SQL Server 2000. It employs the Murach approach of dual pages that repeat and enhance the concepts being presented on each page. If you're new to SQL Server 2005 you'll gain a lot from this book. It has three goals: to t

Mono has released version 1.2.6 and it includes a lot of good stuff. One big addition in 1.2.6 for Mac fans includes a native Winforms driver for OS X that lets Winforms-based applications to run without X Server. This is good news because it means better performance, and will allow fu

'It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies,' wrote Microsoft yesterday in a response to the rejection by the Yahoo! board of directors of its $44.6BN acquisition proposal. 'Based on conversations with stakeholders of both compani

Both Windows Server 2008 and the Vista Service Pack 1 were released to manufacturing Monday with a perspective availability date of sometime in March. Called a bug-fixer almost universally, APCMag says that, based on version and build number, the Service Pack swaps out the original Vis

Misys says it's going to make good on its promise to open source components of its proprietary Connect Healthcare solution at the Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles today. It expects new products and cheaper prices out of the exercise and maybe even improved healthcare deliv

Ingres, the open source database, and Pentaho, the open source business intelligence alternative, have partnered up. They say they're going to integrate key product lines and together chase the BI market, saying it's hot. LogicWorks has become MySQL's first authorized hosting partner i

Taking a page from its friend Linspire's hymnal, Canonical, the brains behind Ubuntu, has started offering its flock proprietary Parallels widgetry so it can run Linux and Windows on the same desktop without rebooting. It is Canonical's first dalliance with a proprietary package, but e

Time Warner's new CEO Jeff Bewkes said Wednesday that AOL is being split in two. Its web portal and advertising business will be separated from its nose-diving Internet access business, the operation that made AOL into a household word and led Time Warner into one of the worst mergers

Now it's being sued by the University of Wisconsin at Madison for patent infringement. The school's patent management organization, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the world's first university-based technology transfer office, established in 1925, filed suit the other