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15th December 2009 Archive

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  • Novell rejigs self, waves bye to CTO

    Four units squeezed into two

    NetWare and Linux operating system seller Novell has been trying to expand into other markets since the late 1980s, and it has reorganized so many times it is hard to keep track. Today, the company did it again, saying that effective January 1, it would be consolidating from four different business units down to two. With …

    Software & Security 15 Dec 07:02

  • Sun ditches 'try and buy' program

    60-day trial fails to shine

    Sun Microsystems is ending its "try and buy" programme that allowed customers to sample a range of hardware kit for 60-day trials with tech support thrown in for free. The company - which is currently facing a multi-billion dollar takeover from rival database giant, Oracle - didn't explain why it was dropping the radical offer …

    Enterprise 15 Dec 09:02

  • EU finally ratifies copyright treaty

    It only took 13 years

    The European Union has ratified an international agreement on copyright law which was first negotiated in 1996 and which has formed the basis of EU copyright law since 2001. The European Union and its member states have finally ratified two agreements created by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the …

    IT Channel 15 Dec 10:32

  • OGC claims £196.7m ICT savings

    It's a start...

    The Office of Government Commerce has reported record savings from the collaborative procurement of ICT. A spokesperson told GC News that government departments saved £196.7m in ICT procurement, accounting for a significant proportion of £1.4bn in "value for money" savings across the public sector. The OGC's annual statement …

    IT Channel 15 Dec 10:47

  • Microsoft volume licensing website takes festive holiday

    Customers asked to activate using phone, people

    Microsoft's volume licensing websites have been offline for over a week while the software giant has been tweaking its service. Redmond's eOpen licence and volume licensing service sites has been "down for maintenance" since 7 December. Microsoft apologised to customers affected by the scheduled outage and said it hoped to …

    IT Channel 15 Dec 12:43

  • IBM's XIV roadmap includes multiple frames and InfiniBand

    2TB drive support also on the cards

    IBM is planning multiple frames followed by InfiniBand links for its XIV cloud storage products, while asserting that petabytes of multiple XIV box storage are very much easier to manage than petabytes in a single storage array. The XIV storage product is a cluster or grid of up to 15 storage and interface nodes linked by …

    Enterprise 15 Dec 16:50

  • Sun claims IP victory over defunct US 'counterfeiter'

    And cracks down on grey marketing

    Sun Micro claimed a brace of IP victories today, with a counterfeiter in the US and a UK-based grey marketeer feeling the wrath of the soon-to-be-borged firm. The Java vendor said that it had secured a federal court judgment against a man it claimed was producing counterfeit versions of its products. The order compels Joe …

    IT Channel 15 Dec 17:13

  • Neon sues IBM over 'anticompetitive' mainframe tactics

    zPrime finally feeds some lawyers

    This summer, when Neon Enterprise Software launched its zPrime software for moving legacy workloads on IBM's mainframe engines to lower-cost specialty engines, it was only a matter of time before the lawsuits began. As it turns out, Neon, which is seeing its zPrime business thwarted by what it claims are unfair business …

    Enterprise 15 Dec 17:48

  • Microsoft cops to webcode theft

    Blames 'Chinese vendor'

    Microsoft has admitted that its new Chinese microblogging service used webcode pilfered from a similar service popular elsewhere in Asia. On Monday, as reported by The Reg, Asian microblogging site Plurk accused Microsoft China of pilfering its code for a new social-networking feature known as Juku on the Chinese MSN site. …

    Software & Security 15 Dec 20:55

  • Verari Systems confirms layoffs

    Founder and CTO departs

    Verari Systems - the boutique blade server maker that has been increasingly focusing on peddling its Forest containerized data centers - has confirmed the rumors that it laid off a large portion of its employees and is in the midst of restructuring itself. In the wake of yesterday's story that discussed the rumors swirling …

    Enterprise 15 Dec 21:54

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