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China biz software sector to be Asia's largest
News Country's enterprise software market is projected to expand at annual growth rate of 18 percent to reach US$9.4 billion in 2012, new study reports.
Tags: Business applications, IT budgeting, Security, SCM, China, software-as-a-service, supply chain, enterprise software, software project, IT budgeting
Are your systems falling down on resiliency?
Insight perspective Few outside IT realize just how much effort goes into ensuring systems don't fail. If more board members understood that, we might see a greater business emphasis on robust systems, says analyst.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Business applications, IT Governance, Business, IT Professional, Software Failure, software, financial, knowledge, information technology
Novell halts its Hula dance
News Founder of open-source e-mail and calendaring software project decides to move on while calling on community to continue.
Tags: Web services, Open source
Easily manage software projects with Lighthouse
Techguide Need to get a handle on a software development project? Justin James suggests considering Artifact Software's Lighthouse product.
Tags: Business applications, Project management, IT project management, Microsoft Corp., Web-based Application, time management, Tool, Time Management Tool, Gantt Chart, workflow management
Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
News The Linux project lead has said new contributors should "start small" to avoid becoming frustrated with the Linux kernel development process.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Software, Linus Torvalds, Security, Developer, operating system, Linux Kernel, Environment, patch management
Samba: TomTom suit tries to undermine GPL
News Jeremy Allison, leader of the Samba project, views Microsoft's patent suit against TomTom as part of wider attempt to undermine the open source GPL software license.
Tags: Open source, Software licensing, Patents, Microsoft Corp., Patent, GPL, TomTom, software, Open-source Community, Jeremy Allison
Gap taps i2 for distribution tool
News Clothing retailer Gap is undertaking a software project that will help the company more efficiently move merchandise to its distribution centers and to more than 4,000 Gap stores.
Google releases open source Mac updater software
News Search giant uses the open source framework to keep multiple Mac OS X applications updated--and now anyone else may use it, too.
Tags: Mac OS, Open source, Google Inc., Open-source Software, Programmer, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, screensaver, software, blog
Samba servers vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks
News Patches released for flaws in software package that lets Windows files and printers be shared by Unix and Linux systems.
Tags: Viruses and worms
Debian drops ball on security updates
News The newly launched Linux distribution has a glitch--some versions were released with default security updates turned off.
Tags: Linux
Microsoft teams up with SpikeSource
News Software giant hopes a tie-up with SpikeSource will give it more credentials to win over open-source skeptics.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Content management
Flaw weakens Linux security software
News A vulnerability in the operating system allows protective software to grant hackers access to protected networks.
Sun concerned Google's Android will fracture Java
Techguide Company's software chief wants to work with Google to make sure that the Android phone software won't split Java into incompatible versions.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, PDA phones, Development/design, Open source
'Portland' 1.0 aims to ease Linux interface
News Newly released software is designed to help bridge two widely used Linux user interfaces, KDE and GNOME.
Tags: Linux, Software engineering/development, Open source
Nokia: Linux kernel may use our patents
News Nokia said its patented technology may be freely used in the Linux kernel.
Tags: Cellular phones, Linux
