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SCO spokesperson Blake Stowell told the E-Commerce Times that this license covers the company's IP rights in Linux 2.4 kernels and later -- almost every Linux distribution released since the year 2000 However, he said, SCO is targeting only corporate and enterprise Linux custo...

Gartner analyst George Weiss told the E-Commerce Times that enterprises are still sifting through the meaning of SCO's demands that Unix licenses be purchased to avoid copyright claims. "Even though Red Hat wasn't in the crosshairs, it is going to be impacted," Weiss said. Be...

In addition, CIOs should aim to keep abreast of emerging technologies, according to Roger Kay, vice president of client computing at research firm IDC. "A good CIO will be out there testing the latest technology on his or her system, starting to experiment as new capabilities become available," he told the E-Commerce Times.

Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) spokesperson Kevan Barney told the E-Commerce Times that his company did not necessarily wait for LinuxWorld to announce its acquisition. However, "the timing was certainly serendipitous." Barney also said the matchup is a perfect fit. He noted that Novel...

Sprint (NYSE: PCS) spokesperson Dan Wilinsky told the E-Commerce Times that this deal is a win-win opportunity for both companies. It offers Sprint a new sales channel, especially for PCS Vision's data services, and Qwest now will be able to offer its wireless customers more complete nationwide coverage...

Jim Hurley, vice president of security and privacy at Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times that there are many levels of security, and as the skills required get deeper, the numbers of qualified workers decrease "At the top of the skill set, there are only a few hundred p...

"WiFi is becoming ubiquitous," Meta Group program director Chris Kozup told the E-Commerce Times. "The combination of higher data rates, interoperability guarantees and lower costs now makes this technology ripe for adoption." With this high-speed mobile networking technology ...

Eric Hemmendinger, research director for security and privacy at Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times that while he wasn't aware of any particular signs, he assumed the DHS has received some indication of activity "Otherwise, this would be the Net equivalent of duct tape ...

He told the E-Commerce Times that checks mean not just calling references, but also checking to make sure information in a resume is accurate. There are many companies that specialize in this type of digging, and Challenger said it is worth the extra cost to outsource the work to professionals...

Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman told the E-Commerce Times that mobile phone providers face challenges in attempting to fashion wireless handsets into gaming platforms because of navigation and input issues "Sprint deserves some credit here in trying to simplify the input pro...

Microsoft has revealed portions of its Windows source code to a dozen foreign governments as part of its Government Security Program Initiative, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) spokesperson Alex Mercer told the E-Commerce Times The initiative, which was first announced in January, al...

Goodwin told the E-Commerce Times that Meta's research shows most small networks use very little of their existing storage capacity -- on the order of 30 to 40 percent at most. The unused capacity is referred to as "orphaned" or missing storage. So, the first step in properly building out a storage network is to get a handle on what one actually has. This task can be accomplished with a variety of planning tools, such as Computer Associates' BrightStor, Tivoli's Storage Resource Manager, Veritas' SiteStor, Sun Microsystems' StorEdge Resource Management Suite and EMC's StorageScope.

Newsflash: Apple is the market leader in digital music downloading, with more than 6 million song tracks sold in less than four months through its iTunes Music Store. That's good news for the computer company, which usually has to resort to the cold comfort of knowing that while people think its products rock, they don't buy them in nearly the numbers they do competitors' inferior machines.

Meanwhile, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise has toppled from its position as the number three vendor six or seven years ago and now commands just 3 percent of the total market, Gartner Dataquest principal analyst Colleen Graham told the E-Commerce Times What do these shifts i...

STMicroelectronics spokesperson Michael Markowitz told the E-Commerce Times that APIs are a relatively new segment of the mobile phone industry. He said these interfaces can accept data input and then manipulate that data to be output as, for example, an MP3 file and a video stream...

"For every company thinking about outsourcing in a major way, there are five blue-chip techs vying for their business," she told the E-Commerce Times. ABB's statements about cost savings no doubt are good news for tech companies that claim they can do the same work as sprawl...

Many enterprises now rely on hundreds or thousands of databases, and administering them has become a major challenge, Noel Yuhanna, senior industry analyst at Forrester Research, told the E-Commerce Times. As a result, companies are looking for easier tools with which to manage their environments...

"They've both got great band recognition in the enterprise and are trying to be the alternative in the software space," Schorr told the E-Commerce Times. "They've taken aim at pricing because they know it's something enterprises complain about." ...

For example, Giga vice president Martha Bennett told the E-Commerce Times, UK ISP Freeserve "has consistently campaigned against AOL, which supplied services to UK customers free of VAT. Freeserve had to charge its customers 17.5 percent UK VAT. This distortion has now gone away."

"Microsoft is doubling back to what made it the dominant company in operating systems," Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "If it makes the best products, it will be the company that people choose." ...