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ECMA move is standard fare from Microsoft
Leader Throughout the 90s Microsoft had plenty of company in the practice of using proprietary document formats. Now, many organisations are growing increasingly aware of the risks posed by using proprietary file formats; the fact they really do not have...
[November 22, 2005, 12:35]
Breaking the Web
Talkback The author of the article, Tim Anderson, then goes on to explain that, "These technologies display not HTML, the language of web pages, but XAML, Microsoft's proprietary code for creating rich visual content.
[March 13, 2008, 17:01]
Australian State Blows Opportunity to Bring Linux to Education
Blog There is a way to migrate to Linux and open source software, a way that was clearly demonstrated recently by the French National Gendarmerie, which saved 50 million Euros by migrating to open source software rather than Microsoft and proprietary...
[April 6, 2009, 10:01]
Wine development stifled by software patent
News As SEH is commonly used in code that runs on the Windows platform, Wine users that want to use the Winelib feature must either modify their source code to remove SEH constructs or rely on a proprietary compiler, such as Microsoft's MSVC.
[May 13, 2005, 10:05]
Printer makers rapped over refill restrictions
News But the electroscrap law could have a negative impact on printer makers, which depend heavily on sales of proprietary ink cartridges to subsidise the cost of their printers. These proprietary cartridges make up about 90 percent of the $30bn (£19bn...
[December 20, 2002, 12:29]
RealNetworks backs MPEG-4
News In backing MPEG-4, however, industry experts said RealNetworks appeared less interested in helping the goals of interoperability than in bolstering its own position in wireless streaming, where carriers and device makers appear to be gravitating...
[December 11, 2001, 10:17]
Novell MD on getting along with Microsoft
News But documents cover a lot of strategies, and there's going to be a mixture of proprietary and open source. We've got HMRC, the Ministry of Justice, ITV, and a long list of customers who we are working with, on either Red Hat migration or...
[February 18, 2009, 12:21]
Linux pioneer moves onto OpenVista
News However, the company also plans to sell proprietary software modules - for example, the original VA code can't handle billing, so Medsphere plans to build an extension to handle that, Augustin said. However, selling Linux servers proved difficult...
[August 17, 2005, 10:00]
Most laptop thieves not after data
News The laptop hardware was valued around $4,000, according to the report, but contained "proprietary" data that could be valued in the millions. If [Qualcomm] has any proprietary data on the laptop, competitors could use it to get a leg up," he said.
[September 19, 2000, 12:03]
Does content management send you to sleep?
Blog Well one of the mavericks appears to be dotCMS, it is an enterprise open source CMS that is annoying the hell out of some of the bigger proprietary players. Talking of big proprietary players, the Gartner CMS magic quadrant is made up of IBM, EMC...
[March 30, 2009, 9:11]
Speaking of witch hunts...
Talkback The only application which can faithfully and fully interpret Microsoft's proprietary binary doc files is guess what? Yes, OpenOffice.org does manage to render all these proprietary binary formats fairly well but this is only possible through...
[January 31, 2008, 14:07]
Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux security
Talkback Microsoft has an operating system that is absolutely obsolete and if they change it to something modern, useable and secure they will be just like all the other UNIX based operating systems and be unable to use their proprietary software monopoly...
[January 27, 2004, 19:57]
Governments should switch to open source - study
News Proprietary software companies seek to improve their competitive position by locking users into their products -- that is, making them dependent on a particular data or file format. If such software isn't available for the desired purpose...
[August 23, 2002, 13:47]
Linux 'infringes 283 patents' - insurance group
News The issue became a very real concern when the SCO Group sued IBM, arguing that Big Blue had moved proprietary Unix technology into Linux against the terms of a contract. OSRM's patent-protection plans are the latest development in the sometimes...
[August 2, 2004, 8:40]
Coders urged to take up open source in downturn
News In addition, companies should use 2009 to consider moving away from proprietary systems, Greve said. The FSF Europe president cited the UK government's recent endorsement of open source and free software as evidence for sentiment shifting against...
[March 3, 2009, 14:07]
Does Microsoft's Novell pact mean war on Linux?
News That move is an affront to open-source businesses that generally share intellectual property, an approach anathema to the proprietary ways of Microsoft. It won't work, Webbink argued: "They should have learned a lesson from SCO [a company that sued...
[November 6, 2006, 8:57]
MySQL adds subsecond failover
News MySQL is one of a handful of open-source database programs that some analyst firms expect to become mainstream products in coming years, pressuring proprietary database sellers such as IBM, Oracle and Microsoft.
[March 15, 2004, 15:55]
Open source gains from the downturn?
Blog Asay lists three deals where he says Alfresco was up to 90 percent cheaper than proprietary: "One competitor had a $5 million bid, and we won with a $500,000 bid. We won another with a $250,000 bid; and another in Canada, [the bid from the...
[November 26, 2008, 10:31]
Bergen's CTO: Why we moved to Linux
Talkback The biggest advantage that Linux has over proprietary OS's is that none of the configuration options are hidden behind other configuration options. Once the move starts to open systems away from proprietary systems, it gains momentum and becomes...
[June 17, 2004, 11:24]
Novell evangelises Linux in Europe
News Novell, along with competitors such as IBM and HP, sees Linux as a way of allowing customers to standardise on a single low-cost, non-proprietary platform, migrating from a hodge-podge of systems to Linux-based clusters or mainframes.
[February 13, 2004, 9:20]
