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In case you missed it Tuesday , the consolidation trend taking over the open source world is continuing. But this time, it's a little different. Instead of an open source start-up being swallowed... More >
After first abandoning Microsoft Office for OpenOffice and then giving up Internet Explorer for Firefox, the French government is taking its migration one step further. The Register reports... More >
A federal court will oversee Microsoft's activities into 2009 , according to an InfoWorld report. The ruling comes in response to requests from several states, including California and New York, th... More >
The advice Ecora Software's Brian Cote offers in the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal isn't anything we haven't heard before, but it's good advice that bears repeating . In a nutshell, he says mo... More >
Barracuda Networks has a fight on its hands , and it's looking to open source users for help. The network security software company filed a declaratory judgment action against competitor Tre... More >
The open source market in France grew to $1.07 billion in 2007, according to Pierre Audoin Conseil, a 66 percent increase over the previous year. Similar growth is occurring in other European countri... More >
Pinnacle Bancshares is delisting from the American Stock Exchange , according to bizjournals . And once again, the company says Sarbanes-Oxley is to blame . bizjournals reports: Going priva... More >
In a Monday morning post on Nokia's plan to acquire Trolltech , News.com blogger Matt Asay wonders, "Who will be left to change the world if the old world devours the new world?" I can unde... More >
In a recent interview, Alfresco Software chief marketing officer Ian Howells told IT Business Edge that Sun Microsystems' acquisition of open source database company MySQL makes a lot of sense:... More >
Is open source as we knew it gone? Bill Snyder suggests just that in his InfoWorld blog on Thursday. He points to a new study by veteran software analyst Dennis Byron, of Research 2.0 . In his o... More >
Michael Oxley, the former Republican representative from Ohio who co-sponsored the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, has taken a position on the international advisory council of corporate communications... More >
On Monday, HP began nosing into Black Duck's market, according to this Computerworld UK piece, with the launch of its FOSSology project. The story says the project arose from work done within HP ... More >
A post at newswireless.net on Tuesday suggests that Symbian is the "most used" operating system . Yes, Windows is huge, and Linux is making a dent. But Symbian should be way up the list, too, the ... More >
It seems non-profits aren't just restructuring their boards and revamping accounting processes to meet Sarbanes-Oxley Act standards . Nevermind that Sarbanes-Oxley doesn't specifically apply to non-... More >
Late last year, the OS/2 World Foundation renewed a two-year-old petition in which it asked IBM to open source the OS/2 operating system. Last week, the Channel Register reports, IBM finally issu... More >
Sun bought MySQL. It's all open source circles can talk about. For three days now we've seen different sides of the same story. On Wednesday , came the news that Sun Microsystems had acquired... More >
It didn't take long for the fall of Enron to become synonymous with the sad state of corporate accounting and reporting that gave rise to Sarbanes-Oxley . And now that all of the Enron execs invol... More >
So far the reaction to Sun Microsystems' acquisition of MySQL AB has been mixed. Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, Simon Phipps, thinks it's great , of course. In a Computerworld piece, Phipps sa... More >
In the post-Enron corporate environment, employers give compliance and corporate ethics more lip service than ever. But they don't really put their money where their mouths are, according an SHR... More >
On Wednesday, Oracle announced that it had finally made an offer BEA Systems could not refuse . At the same time, Sun Microsystems jumped into the database market with both feet, giving up $1 billio... More >
Legislation and regulations are good drivers for risk management best practices , according to Brian Shorten, a security and risk manager for Cancer Research UK. In a ComputerWeekly.com piece, he d... More >
Until Monday, IBM's Jazz.net application life cycle management development community, was available only to IBM customers, partners and academics. Now it's open to everyone . According to Ch... More >
It appears as if the European Union has a bone to pick with Microsoft -- again. The question is whether Microsoft is improperly bundling the Internet Explorer Web browser with Windows, which makes ... More >
The number of financial restatements public companies have filed since Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted in 2002 have increased exponentially, according to Financial Week . And a new study by researche... More >
Just when One Laptop Per Child is beginning to recover from Intel's defection , the low-cost educational laptop for children in emerging countries has yet another competitor. BetaNews report... More >
In its annual report, security vendor McAfee made the following statement, according to the INQUIRER : To the extent that we use "open source" software, we face risks. Earlier this week, ZDNet 's D... More >
The D.C. Bar is the latest non-profit organization to follow the trend toward voluntary Sarbanes-Oxley compliance . According to The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes , [t]he D.C. Bar Board of Governors ... More >
A new report from Sarbanes-Oxley consultancy Lord & Benoit has calculated the actual cost of Sarbox 404 compliance for small companies, according to Reuters . Under the latest guidance ... More >
The other day in my Open for Business blog, I bemoaned the beginning of the new year simply because it brings with it a plethora of pundits predicting what the new year will hold. Particularly irks... More >
According to a silicon.com article citing Financial Times figures, the average Fortune 1000 company in the U.S. spends $5.1 million to implement Sarbanes-Oxley and an ongoing $3.7 million to mainta... More >
The guard is changing at Mozilla. The New York Times reports the company behind the Firefox Web browser has a new CEO . As of Tuesday, former Mozilla COO John Lilly takes the reins from Mitchell B... More >
A year after they were adopted, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure addressing discovery of electronically stored information are still a pain to many IT departments , according to a Computerworld... More >
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched his open source search engine, Wikia Search , for testing on Monday, according to Ars Technica . (Wikia is not affiliated with Wikipedia.) The search engine, ... More >
When Intel introduced its Classmate PC last year, the chipmaker angered those behind the One Laptop Per Child project. In fact, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte went so far as to accuse Intel of und... More >
Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and the burden of complying with them generally are associated with large, publicly traded companies. So far, the small-business lobby has convinced the Securities and Exc... More >
This year's Association for Learning Technology Conference will focus on "rethinking the digital divide" in terms of increasing global access to learning technology, Computing reports. In Thursday'... More >
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