The deal is done. Oracle now owns Sun. Oracle’s main message to Sun’s customers seems to be “Don’t worry, be happy.” That’s not easy when Oracle is not explaining in any detail what it will be doing with open-source software offerings like MySQL, OpenOffice, and OpenSolaris.
In general, we know that Sun’s software product catalog will [...]
Windows goes rental Microsoft has quietly made it possible to, sort of, to rent both Windows and Office. While you were probably having great fun on New Year’s Eve, Microsoft was quietly making it possible for businesses to rent Windows and Office. This stealth move has the potential to make big changes in how businesses [...]
It seems that Microsoft knew all along that they were going to get like a drum by i4i (http://www.i4i.com/) when the Canadian company won its XML patent lawsuit. Of course, that isn’t what Microsoft said when the judge ordered Microsoft to pay i4i $290-million and stop selling any version of Word or Office that could [...]
Up on the Internet servers pause and then out jumps relatively good old Microsoft and down through your Internet chimney they’ll be delivering lots of Windows and Office patches to good little Windows users-those who have legal copies of Windows.
Yes, it’s almost time for Microsoft’s holiday edition of Patch Tuesday, December 8th. This is one [...]
It’s easy to say you should patch your Windows PC as soon as possible. But, if you have a business with hundreds of PCs, and an even greater number of ways that a patch might cause trouble, you can’t be blamed for wanting to do make darn sure the patch doesn’t cause more trouble than [...]
