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The 2007-2008 Opacity Index from the Milken Institute indicates that investors face less risk this year partly because so many countries have adopted the International Financial Reporting Standard... More >
Palamida says Black Duck Software's recent acquisition of Koders is "interesting but... [not] industry-shaping." Tuesday, I asked Palamida executives for their reaction to the acquisition. I... More >
Novell's SuSE JeOS is "just enough" Linux , according to ChannelWEB , for virtual appliances. The beta version of the stripped-down OS, free of graphical desktop applications, word processing appli... More >
Taking another step in its quest to become 100 percent open source , Sun Microsystems has released a version of OpenSolaris that has been optimized to create a storage server. ChannelWEB reports: ... More >
In light of the mess surrounding subprime mortgages, even those who once called Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 burdensome and costly are beginning to see the benefit of internal financial controls. A... More >
Xconomy reports that Black Duck Software has acquired open source code search engine Koders. The Koders Web site says that more than 30,000 developers worldwide use the search engine every day t... More >
Despite the fact that open source saves companies money, is more secure and performs better in some instances than proprietary software, it does present risks . The most common, of course, is a comp... More >
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board turned five on Friday. But instead of a big celebration, the audit company regulator is facing a lawsuit that threatens its existence. But that doesn... More >
In the banking and financial services industries, there are anti-money laundering provisions in place that require organizations to know their customers and be able to report suspicious transaction... More >
Sun Microsystems started open sourcing Java in the fall of 2006 , pleasing developers with its decision to release the programming language under the GNU General License version 2. Now, nearly two... More >
Ubuntu version 8.04, Hardy Heron, arrived right on schedule Thursday. As it did, creator Mark Shuttleworth talked up the new operating system as ideal for the enterprise. ZDNet blogger Pau... More >
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox is losing his "go-to guy" according to CFO.com . Michael J. Halloran will step down next month and return to private life after approxim... More >
An international panel of software experts has outlined the next steps for the Open Health Tools initiative, according to iHealthBeat . Government agencies and corporate representatives -- includi... More >
One Laptop Per Child executives are dropping like flies -- or so it seems. Guardian Unlimited blogger Jack Schofield reports OLPC's former president of software and content, Walter Bender , has r... More >
According to Ramesh Venkataraman, a managing director for corporate governance and compliance consultancy CurAlea , the subprime lending crisis could be "a master class in risk-management failure." ... More >
For at least a week now, Standish Group has been raising eyebrows in the open source community with its claims that traditional software vendors are losing $60 billion to open source . More... More >
UBS chairman designate Peter Kurer recently told reporters the bank, which has become the world's hardest hit by the subprime lending crisis, will need at least three years to recover. It would be ... More >
Early last week, Sun Microsystems announced that it would be making some of the online backup features in the 6.0 version of MySQL available only to MySQL Enterprise subscribers, setting off a mael... More >
Psystar is back online and has started shipping Mac PCs , according to InformationWeek . After a week of speculation as to its legitimacy , the Florida-based business that has been selling Mac OS... More >
Maybe it's because the Microsoft-Novell pact hasn't been all that well-received in the U.S. Maybe it's because Microsoft needs a distraction from the disaster that is Windows Vista. Or maybe it's n... More >
When I first started writing about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, I pointed out that many companies seemed to be using Sarbanes-Oxley as their scapegoat : "We're not meeting this project deadline? Well, if... More >
More than a year ago, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered summary judgment in favor of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and against the Free Enterpris... More >
The majority of Ray Ozzie's discussion with Microsoft's Most Vaulable Professionals (MVPs) at the annual summit on Thursday centered around virtualization and the idea of the Web as a mesh that con... More >
A group of professors recently studied the effects of financial restatements on the careers of public company finance executives. CFO.com 's Alan Rappeport says the results were fascinating. SSRN... More >
Word on the street -- and from the MySQL Conference and Expo, apparently -- is that Sun Microsystems has decided to reserve certain MySQL features for paying customers. Blogger and tech consultant ... More >
Forrester says big business is better off with Windows Vista and should avoid Mac OS X or Linux. Computerworld blogger Preston Gralla pointed to the study on Wednesday -- in total agreement wit... More >
In December, I talked to OpenLogic VP Kim Weins about the company's intent to launch a global open source census in an effort to gather hard numbers on open source use in the enterprise. She noted ... More >
The subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. is prompting others besides the U.S. Treasury to gear up against future financial storms. An Associated Press story published in the International Herald T... More >
Mea culpa. I spoke too soon. Thanks to Jordan for pointing out that the Psystar Web site, on which the Florida company is offering a non-Apple computer with Mac OS X pre-installed , was back onlin... More >
News.com blogger and outgoing Open Source Initiative board member Matt Asay says security software provider McAfee has libeled open source and needs to 'fess up to its ignorance regarding open s... More >
Hours after a Florida-based tech store was outed for selling a non-Apple PC running OS X, News.com reports the company's Web site has been taken down . Sites like MacRumors.com and the I... More >
The latest offering from Research and Markets indicates that open source has quickly become commonplace in the business of software, such that most vendors consider it "just another piece of busi... More >
When the data breach occurred at Hannaford Brothers , much was made of the fact that the company was supposed to be Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliant. Some observers even sugges... More >
A new report from Gartner reveals good news and bad news for users of open source server operating systems. The good news: open source OSs -- and Linux in particular -- have caught up with their pr... More >
A new study by Wayne State University law professor Peter J. Henning says the prison sentences imposed upon white collar criminals have gotten longer since Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted in 2002. Accordi... More >
Using open source in health care is not a new thing -- consider Medsphere's OpenVista , or the work of the Open Source Health Care Alliance . But if you're looking for a case study on the move from... More >
PricewaterhouseCoopers released its annual study on the State of the Internal Audit Profession on Thursday. The results reveal that internal auditors should spend more time working to better addres... More >
Last week in my " Not Just Linux " blog, I pointed to a Linux Foundation podcast in which Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian sharply criticized Sun Microsystems ' open source strategy and questioned the viabi... More >
As the idea of U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan to regulate the financial markets continues to percolate in the minds of observers, more of them are beginning to speak out. Take, for in... More >
Notwithstanding the fact that so many think the future of computing is in the cloud , a University of New South Wales professor says Windows and Linux will still be around -- "no matter what they lo... More >
The Institute of International Finance is calling governments, financial institutions and regulators alike to take drastic measures to protect the global economy and "contain the risk" currently fo... More >
No, this time we're not talking about open source software and voting machines . Instead, it's open source as "vote getter." Monday, ZDNet blogger Dana Blankenhorn pointed out that politicians in ... More >
Despite significant investments in the open source database market by both Sun Microsystems and IBM , researchers at The 451 Group say enterprise adoption of open source databases, though widesp... More >
I've been reading for more than a year now that compliance is giving way to enterprise risk management -- both in terms of corporate strategy and in terms of software solutions. Today there is fu... More >
AT&T has the iPhone , of course, but apparently that's not enough. The president of AT&T Mobility, Ralph de la Vega, says he likes what Google is doing with the Android operating system. W... More >
Microsoft and SpikeSource are working together to ensure that several open source applications work well on Windows Server 2008. According to SpikeSource's Web site , five php programs are now certi... More >
With the subprime scandal , the credit crunch and the government scurrying to make regulatory adjustments that will help, lender oversight and credit risk management are hot topics at the moment. ... More >
Despite government and industry organization emphasis on the importance of IT security to reduce corporate fraud, the levels of fraud will continue to increase in the next year, according to Securit... More >
silicon.com writer and IT analyst Martin Brampton says the open source movement isn't as collaboration-friendly as its proponents would like you to think. How can that be, when open source develop... More >
As an April Fool's joke on Tuesday, iTWire writer Stan Beer ran a story headlined: " Apple to Release PC version of Leopard in Q3 ." Most of his readers quickly recognized the spoof, he said on We... More >
Venture capitalists are showing open source companies a lot of love so far this year. InformationWeek reported Tuesday that venture capital investment in open source reached $204 million in the f... More >
It's no surprise to most that the majority of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act only applies to publicly traded companies . But we've also noted before that many non-profit organizations and private companies ... More >
As of this writing, there had been been no ISO announcement to the public, but Microsoft announced Tuesday that its Office Open XML document format has won approval as an ISO/IEC standard. T... More >
Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian thinks Sun Microsystems' Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems are going nowhere. In the latest Linux Foundation podcast , released Monday night, the one time IBM salesm... More >
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