Author Archives: mrdoornbos

Products for fixed WiMax to ship this year; vendors now eyeing mobile form of WiMax expected in 2006 So where’s the mobile part? $500 DSL replacement doesn’t sound too good to me.

eWeek Reports: “BM’s decision not to test, certify and support its enterprise software applications on Solaris 10 for x86 platforms has angered Sun Microsystems Inc. officials, who say the move smacks of monopolistic behavior. ADVERTISEMENT Larry Singer, vice president of Sun’s Global Information Systems Strategy Office, in Santa Clara, Calif., told eWEEK that the moveContinue reading “Sun Slams IBM over x86 Decision”

IBM has released the code on 500 software patents to allow developers to use the technology to freely develop open source technology.

Get your info here.

Yikes. I’ve never understood Sun, don’t think I ever will. It’s in the FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter, December 21, 2004

This Infoworld article reports: “Novell (Profile, Products, Articles) last week said it will soon detail plans to include server virtualization technology in its SUSE Linux operating system. Red Hat (Profile, Products, Articles) intends to do the same thing with its Linux distribution, and a leading contender for both vendors may be an open-source virtualization technologyContinue reading “Novell, Red Hat eye virtualization for Linux”

Hey, pretty cool, I helped built some of the communication parts of this.

Well, they’ve done it. I sure feel better now that they are taking care of the spyware problems themselves. They’ve done such a *wonderful job* with security in the past, maybe I’ll let them hold on to the keys to my car, and my wallet, and my kids… “I’d like to get a virus andContinue reading “Microsoft Launches Anti-Spyware”

You can do great whitehat testing with Whoppix

Infoworld reports version 5.0 to feature stored procedures, other enhancements