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Exchange flaw leaves systems 'open to spammers'
News Administrators of email systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk email under their noses, a consultant warned this week. Even if you think you've done everything [to secure the server...
[November 17, 2003, 10:05]
ValleyCrest Companies Moves From IBM AS/400 to HP Open Systems Solution for Growing Business Needs
White Papers HP helped ValleyCrest migrate from JD Edwards' World financial software running on an IBM AS/400 mainframe to the newer Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP software running on HP ProLiant servers in an open systems environment.
[December 20, 2006, 0:00]
How Open Is Open? The Mobile Open Operating Systems Landscape
White Papers With all of these operating systems available, how do operators, handset vendors, semiconductor manufacturers, application developers, and other ecosystem stakeholders work together to bring compelling, differentiated, high value solutions to market?
[January 10, 2009, 0:00]
Patterns-Based Evaluation of Open Source BPM Systems: The Cases of jBPM, OpenWFE, and Enhydra Shark
White Papers This report provides a patterns-based evaluation of three well-known open source workflow management systems: jBPM, OpenWFE, and Enhydra Shark. One of the objectives of the Workflow Patterns Initiative is to provide insights into comparative...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
2008 The Year of Open Source Mobile Operating Systems
Blog 2008 The Year of Open Source Mobile Operating Systems Beginning in October (2007), the future of open source mobile Operating Systems (OS) began looking like an imminent reality. With companies such as Motorola, Apple, and Google leading the way...
[January 1, 2008, 21:47]
A Survey of Open Source Data Mining Systems
White Papers This paper surveys open source data mining systems currently available on the Internet. The paper compares 12 open source systems against several aspects such as general characteristics, data source accessibility, data mining functionality, and...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
GDOC: Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters Providing Continuous Availability & Disaster Recovery for Distributed Systems
White Papers This white paper describes the GDOC solution in the context of distributed systems (such as AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows) and it also describes an interface to Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS), IBM's...
[July 14, 2009, 1:19]
BT loves open systems - true?
Talkback i agree and whilst there has been lots of fine words coming from BT's mouth in recent times, there has been little evidence of what they will actually be implementing with the 21CN. I attended a talk by Mr Verwayeen (sp?
[February 22, 2005, 12:30]
SCO bans press from Open Systems briefing
News The SCO Group's Australian managing director has played down a move to bar media outlets from his presentation to the Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) as pressure intensifies over the vendor's decision to litigate over...
[May 29, 2003, 9:09]
BT loves open systems - true?
Leader The very things that closed systems seek to protect become liabilities, not assets, in an increasingly open world. But the only way to do this in today's heterogeneous and rapidly mutating technical environment is by adopting open systems.
[February 22, 2005, 11:10]
Quesgen Systems: Using the Vyatta Open-Source Router and Firewall to Secure Hosted Medical Data
White Papers Vyatta's unique open architecture allowed QuesGen to easily deploy a commercially supported firewall that gave it the security and support it required, plus the additional benefits of system scalability and extensibility of services.
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
Comparison of the Enterprise Functionalities of Open Source Database Management Systems
White Papers This paper is an in-depth evaluation on open source DBMS in consideration of their applicability on enterprise-level applications. The following open source DBMS have been evaluated: Firebird 1.5.2, Ingres r3 3.0.1, MaxDB 7.5.0.23, MySQL 4.1.10 and...
[March 10, 2006, 0:01]
IBM System z9 Open Systems Adapter for Communication Controller for Linux
White Papers The IBM 374x Communication Controllers, and the NCP (Network Control Program) software that runs on them, have been at the center of the IBM SNA (Systems Network Architecture) for many years. However, the 374x hardware is no longer being produced.
[March 9, 2007, 0:00]
Redefining IPTV With the Sun Streaming System: Video-on-Demand (VoD) and Network Personal Video Recording (nPVR) for an Open Systems World
White Papers Offering video services over existing IP networks holds considerable promise in terms of new revenue and business growth opportunities for video service providers. Home video in all of its forms is now a large and growing business, and Video on...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Kick Open the Box on Higher ROI for Active RFID: Driving Cost Parity With Passive Systems
White Papers Passive systems are usually judged on the tag cost of around 20 cents. Active tag systems can now be had for around $10 per tag - with active tags providing enormous benefits to automating systems and operations - that barcode and passive cannot...
[July 4, 2009, 1:20]
Server maker expands dual-board server line
News Open Source Systems, a small Silicon Valley server maker, is expanding its Gemini line of machines, which combine dual motherboards in a single 3.5-inch chassis. More Gemini designs are in the works, though, said Open Source Systems founder and...
[March 19, 2007, 9:43]
Open source team to shake up systems management
News A handful of start-ups are trying to upset the stodgy world of enterprise systems management software with open source and a more democratic approach to setting industry standards. The Open Management Consortium (OMC), founded in May, is a grouping...
[July 24, 2006, 10:00]
Linux: Lost in the trough of disillusionment?
Talkback I strongly suggest you REQUIRE open compatibility with ANY hardware and systems you open your wallet to. It's up to you to let you desire be know before we will see low cost pre-built linux systems. Funds that could be redirected to a much faster...
[September 10, 2005, 19:07]
Linux considered for GPS rival
News Infrastructure for the European rival to the US military Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system could include systems based around open-source software, including Linux, according to one of the project's main contractors.
[February 6, 2004, 12:00]
Open-source flaw threatens Microsoft
News A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and Unix systems for compression may affect some Microsoft products that also use the code. As reported earlier this week by ZDNet UK, a flaw in the zlib software-compression library could leave...
[March 15, 2002, 8:57]
