Robert McMillan

Sun Microsystems Inc. will be taking one step backward and two steps forward with its new generation of low-power microprocessors, which the Santa Clara, Calif., company will unveil during a technical presentation at the Hot Chips symposium in Palo Alto, Calif., on Tuesday.

A rift between the developers of the open source JBoss J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application server has brought the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) into the J2EE game.

The role of technology in the enterprise may be changing, but IT still very much matters, Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina said Tuesday in a keynote speech at her company's HP World user convention in Atlanta.

The requirements of the software license that governs the Linux operating system were questioned on Thursday as The SCO Group Inc. and Linux advocates offered differing interpretations of the role that the GNU General Public License (GPL) would play in a legal dispute between SCO and IBM Corp.

One day after being sued by Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. for "unfair and deceptive actions" relating to its claims about intellectual property violations in the Linux source code, The SCO Group Inc. Tuesday told Unix users exactly what it would cost to bring their systems out of the sights of SCO's lawyers.rn

Open source advocates on Monday blasted a Linux licensing scheme that The SCO Group Inc. is proposing to address alleged copyright violations in the Linux operating system.

Quantum Corp. on Monday released new software for its DLTtape line of storage drives that are designed to warn users when their backup tapes are about to go on the fritz.

The SCO Group Inc. is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation.