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French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war

Reuters US Online Report Technology News 61 days ago

PARIS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this week contains code from an unusual source -- the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook. The story of how the French ...

Nokia plans just one Linux phone next year: source

Reuters US Online Report Technology News 72 days ago

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia, plans to install Linux software on just one new smartphone next year, a source with direct knowledge of Nokia's product roadmap told Reuters. A Nokia spokesman said the company does not comment on ...

EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun

AP News 92 days ago

European regulators object to Sun-Oracle deal; Oracle to fight "profound misunderstanding" European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S. ...

Web technologies account for 78 percent of all bugs

SC Magazine 92 days ago

Of all vulnerabilities in web technologies discovered in the first half of 2009, 90 percent were present in web applications. Seventy-eight percent of all the vulnerabilities identified during the first half of the year were found in web applications, browsers and servers, ...

Rapid7 buys Metaploit, remains committed to open source

SC Magazine 111 days ago

Metasploit, the organization behind the Metasploit Project, a popular open-source tool for exploit research, has been acquired by vulnerability management provider Rapid7. Metasploit, the organization behind the Metasploit Project, a popular open-source tool for exploit research, has been acquired by vulnerability management ...

ORACLE HAS CUSTOMERS OVER A BARREL

BusinessWeek 146 days ago

ORACLE HAS CUSTOMERS OVER A BARREL Over the past four years, Oracle Chief Executive Lawrence J. Ellison has been on an acquisition binge that has brought all sorts of benefits to the company. After spending $30 billion to buy 56 companies, he ...

EU opens in-depth probe into Oracle, Sun deal

Reuters US Online Report Business News 159 days ago

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators launched an in-depth probe on Thursday into Oracle Corp's <ORCL.O> $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc <JAVA.O> on concerns the deal could dent competition in the database market. The delay could hurt Sun, the ...

EU delays Oracle-Sun deal, probing database market

AP News 159 days ago

EU opens probe of Oracle-Sun deal, ending hopes for $7.4 billion deal to get done this summer Oracle Corp. figured its $7.4 billion buyout for Sun Microsystems Inc. could skate through antitrust scrutiny, folding Sun into a technology powerhouse when Sun badly ...

Summary Box: EU applies brakes to Oracle-Sun deal

AP News 159 days ago

Summary Box: EU applies brakes to Oracle-Sun deal on questions about database market SLOW DOWN: European Union regulators are launching a formal antitrust investigation into Oracle Corp.'s proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. Oracle expected to complete the acquisition this ...

EU reveals probe into Oracle bid

AFP American Edition 160 days ago

Business software giant Oracle's 7.4-billion-dollar bid for Sun Microsystems is under investigation under EU merger regulation, the European Commission announced on Thursday. Brussels "has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world's leading proprietary database company proposes ...

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