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Adobe launches hosted services, adds Flash to Acrobat 03 June, 2008 09:02:44
Adobe to launch Web site offering users free hosted services for document creation, sharing and storageAdobe this week is set to unveil the next version of its Adobe Acrobat software, which adds support for the company's Flash multimedia technology. The company also plans to launch a new Web site offering users free hosted services for document creation, sharing and storage.
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In the IBM Corner
Attorney David Marriot - IBM hired the law firm that its current foe, David Boies, spent most of his career with, Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Marriot and IBM's other lawyers have been far less vocal about the case than SCO, putting out terse, narrow statements, if any at all.Red Hat President and CEO Matthew Szulik - Matches the aggressive and apocalyptic tone of SCO's Chris Sontag. "This is a march for freedom," he told Forbes. "This is about a minority who are trying to hold the open source development community hostage. We had to step forward and say, enough is enough."
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, and the Linux community - Torvalds has attacked SCO as "a company that seems to have squandered all of its money . . . and now seems to play the US legal system like a lottery". Torvalds is usually a reluctant leader of what some call a movement toward open source software; but, in this instance, he matched the fiery disposition of the rabid network of open source developers that make up the Linux community, well-known for its ability to mobilize against those who are critical of Linux and open source. The community considers open source software technically and morally superior to proprietary code. WHAT EVERYONE IS FIGHTING ABOUT
Unix System V Source Code
A bunch of decades-old zeroes and ones, Unix System V source code is the derivative of the original Unix work done in the late 60s at Bell Labs. A skein of derivative works makes up the Unix family tree, which, when printed out, is about 3 metres long. SCO claims it owns thousands of lines of this code, which has found its way into Linux, sometimes literally copied and pasted. SCO Is Suing . . .IBM
Claims: Copyright infringement, breach of contract, unfair competition, tortious interference
Filed: March 6, 2003
Details: This is SCO's anchor case, and its outcome determines everything - the future of SCO and the validity of the licensing terms under which Linux is distributed. SCO is now seeking $US5 billion in damages.
To prevail, SCO must convince a jury that IBM knowingly mixed a derivative of SCO's code into its Linux products. That would mean that SCO's property is being given away illegally under Linux's General Public License, which mandates free distribution of source code when it's used in commercial products.
(The IBM case focuses mostly on allegations that the company improperly uses a Unix System V derivative, in this case AIX. Other allegations include the literal copying of Unix code into the Linux kernel, and "nonliteral transfers" in which Linux developers have used Unix System V methods, structures and sequences without permission or licence.
Status: Both sides exchanged discovery. Case is scheduled to open November 1, 2005 in the US.
AUTOZONE
Claim: Copyright infringement
Filed: March 3, 2004
Details: SCO, after sending several formal warnings, sued AutoZone, a national chain of auto parts stores, for using Linux and failing to pay SCO.
(Before the suit was filed, a general legal defence fund had been created by IBM and Linux vendors to fight SCO's suits.)
Status: AutoZone has requested a stay and also asked for the trial to move from Las Vegas to Memphis, AutoZone's headquarters. At press time, SCO was preparing a response. Further, a week before the DaimlerChrysler decision (see SCO Was Being Sued By . . . , right), AutoZone's lawyers convinced a judge in Nevada to put the lawsuit against it on hold until after certain key issues are settled in SCO's suit against IBM.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
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For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Best Western forced to play defense on data breach disclosure 29 August, 2008 08:08:00
Could hotel chain have done a better job of defusing story about system intrusion?The headline in this week's Glasgow Sunday Herald -- "Revealed: 8 million victims in the world's biggest cyber heist" -- was a grabber. - +
US Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws 28 August, 2008 09:53:00
US Congress charges that US$500m project to prevent another 9/11 is a complete failure.A US House subcommittee is charging that a US$500 million IT project intended to "connect the dots" on terrorists and help prevent another 9/11 is a failure; it can't even handle basic Boolean search terms, such as "and, or and not." - +
Malware infects space station laptops 28 August, 2008 08:15:00
Not the first time, says NASA; astronauts load up Norton AntiVirusMalware has managed to get off the planet and onto the International Space Station, NASA confirmed yesterday. And it's not the first time that a worm or virus has stowed away on a trip into orbit. - +
Separation of duties and IT security 28 August, 2008 09:40:00
Muddied responsibilities create unwanted risk. Kevin Coleman says auditors may start labeling poorly defined IT duties as a material deficiency.Separation of duties is a key concept of internal controls and is the most difficult and sometimes the most costly one to achieve. This objective is achieved by disseminating the tasks and associated privileges for a specific security process among multiple people. - +
How to recruit and retain the best young security employees 27 August, 2008 08:32:00
Today's youngest generation of workers, known as Generation Y, have different career goals than their parents did. What do you need to know to get them to work for you?The final installment in a series of articles about generational differences and security. Part one looked at managing workers in different age groups. Part two examined the types of security concerns that are most commonly associated with different generations in the general workforce. This article provides recruiting and retention advice for security employees.
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Why Security SaaS Makes Sense Today
Corporate IT teams are waging a significant security battle on two fronts these days: stopping attacks via the Web and through email. Security SaaS can solves these problems and more. Read on to discover 7 reasons why security SaaS makes sense for your business.
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