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Trite but right: Dull IT that made it big

Trite but right: Dull IT that made it big

...convinced Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox to promote Ethernet as a standard, and the technology caught on in the early 1980s. Since then, through... Read more

11 December, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Oracle signs Solaris deals with HP and Dell

...folks: by participating in X11 and Gnome, by long being open about standards and protocols they developed, by open-sourcing OpenOffice, OpenSolaris and Java," Hamilton... Read more

30 July, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

VMware teams up with Novell on Suse Linux

...maintain. As part of the new deal, SLES will now become the standard operating system for those appliances. The announcement expands on a February 2009... Read more

11 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Brocade unveils converged datacentre plan

...machines. VAL will support hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft and other vendors via standards such as Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) and Virtual Ethernet Bridging (VEB... Read more

11 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Linux standard gets stamp of approval

...back up the project's claims. The programme, announced by the Free Standards Group, is the latest effort by the largest Linux vendors to make... Read more

2 July, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Cisco opens up video conferencing protocol

...royalty-free, and would seek to make TIP into an open industry standard. "We will publicly license, at no cost, some of our very key... Read more

27 January, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Kernel maintainer backs UnitedLinux

...makers and application vendors to instead certify their products for the Linux Standards Base (LSB), a long-standing programme of improving different Linux distributions' compatibiity... Read more

5 July, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Industry Standard pulls out of Germany

The Industry Standard, one of the more successful "new economy" journals, is scrapping plans for... Read more

10 January, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Europe spared from Industry Standard job cuts

The Industry Standard, the weekly magazine covering the high-tech industry, said Monday it will... Read more

9 January, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

European e-invoicing drive aims to save billions

...It also wants improvements to interoperability and the adoption of a common standard for invoice data content and forms across the European Union. The commission... Read more

28 April, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft backs document-format test tool

...that will help organisations validate their documents against internationally recognised document-format standards. The tool is intended to be a step towards delivering on the... Read more

18 May, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

Wi-Fi vendors begin 802.11g upgrades

...products came out too early, they don't work with 802.11g standard products," said a Proxim spokesman. The biggest wireless LAN equipment vendors are... Read more

16 June, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Linux vendors to unify efforts

...Our biggest concern has always been compatibility problems." Another supporter of Linux standards, developer Alan Cox of Red Hat, said a combined distribution could be... Read more

29 May, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

FTC quizzes chip makers in Rambus case

...disclose patent applications while it was a member of the JEDEC memory standards body, and the investigation is now believed to be focusing on Rambus... Read more

3 September, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft's open source arguments are arrogant, says IBM

...many observers fear that .Net is a way of turning the open standards-based Internet into yet another Microsoft proprietary format. "We don't think... Read more

5 July, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

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