Infrastructure

When IT workers and employers in the U.S. and the U.K. talk about offshore outsourcing, they might as well be speaking different languages.The employers say they're cutting costs, but their employees hear that as cutting jobs.

Revenues generated from public wireless local area network (WLAN) services in the Philippines are expected to reach US$1,000 per hotspot by 2003, according to the latest figures released by market research firm IDC.

Unix developer The SCO Group Inc. last week stepped up its efforts to collect license fees from Linux users and reported a quarterly net loss as a result of legal costs associated with its intellectual property rights campaign.

RealNetworks Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., alleging that the Redmond, Wash., software giant has illegally used its power as a monopoly to control the digital media market.

Red Hat Inc. is adding some enterprise storage capabilities to its Linux. With Novell Inc. buying SuSE AG, enterprise Linux looks set to become a stronger offering.

Looking to improve their connectivity options in the wireless marketplace, PalmSource Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) will jointly develop a software client that will enable RIM's BlackBerry handhelds to connect to the Palm OS.

Two years in the making, rego.act, Canberra's A$6 million (US$4.4 million) vehicle registration and driver licensing project, scales to 600 concurrent users and gives the public 24x7 access to the Australian Capital Territory's (ACT) Road Transport Authority's (RTA) business transaction processing.

IBM Corp. picked up new document management technology for its content management portfolio through the acquisition Wednesday of Green Pasture Software Inc., a small software developer based in Corvallis, Ore. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.