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IBM Patent Sparks Open Source Code Rewrite
Talkback It’s going to get harder, not easier as “open source” moves into newer technology areas - e.g.rfid. The fundamental work on technologies such as compilers, relational data bases and operating systems like Unix predate “software” or “business...
[April 14, 2005, 12:54]
IBM Patent Sparks Open Source Code Rewrite
Talkback If IBM was really genuine about opening up intellectual property, they could do so in a much more pro-active and supportive manner. Just because the developers in question may not have an accurate understanding of the legal position doesn't mean...
[April 14, 2005, 10:45]
IBM Revamps E-business Software
News Hebner said the new Enterprise Edition offers a tool called Business Rules Beans that will allow businesses to easily tweak their software without having to rewrite software code. Business Rules Beans allows software developers to change the...
[September 27, 2001, 11:56]
Create Ajax-Style Architectures With The IBM Web 2.0 Feature Pack
White Papers Learn how to combine Ajax-style architectures with an existing application without having to rewrite the entire Web application. This paper shows the user how a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application was enhanced with an Ajax-style...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Lotus Gets Closer To WebSphere
News Over the next year and a half, IBM plans to rewrite Lotus' SameTime instant messaging and QuickPlace collaborative applications to run on IBM's WebSphere Portal software. IBM has quietly consolidated management of its Lotus software division within...
[March 4, 2003, 10:02]
IBM Makes WebSphere Connection
News Collaboration Center, which IBM demonstrated at its Lotusphere conference earlier this year, is part of the Lotus division's plan to rewrite its applications in Java. IBM on Wednesday released a set of tools to promote the use of its WebSphere...
[May 15, 2003, 10:50]
IBM Details Eclipse Tools
News The company's long-term direction is to rewrite its existing line of application lifecycle tools to work as plug-ins to Eclipse. IBM on Monday detailed a line of programming tools meant to create a market of customised add-ons for its Lotus...
[July 20, 2004, 14:10]
IBM To Unveil Lotus 'lite'
News IBM will continue to rewrite other Lotus applications, such as its e-learning software, to plug into the WebSphere Portal over time. IBM will show off a new light-duty email application at this week's Lotusphere conference, the company's annual...
[January 27, 2003, 15:17]
Red Hat Offers Linux Patent Protection
News The indemnification is a new element to Red Hat's Open Source Assurance programme, which guarantees customers that the company will rewrite code found to violate another's intellectual property. Indemnification of open-source software rose to...
[November 6, 2006, 8:37]
Microsoft Targets IBM Midrange Server Customers
News It said that like many of the MAP partners, it has tools that allow customers to add a modern Web interface to existing applications without having to rewrite code. Microsoft plans to link hands with hardware and services companies on Tuesday in a...
[December 14, 2004, 12:40]
AMD, Intel, IBM Stake Out New Territory At Chip Forum
News AMD says the approach allows computers to take advantage of the benefits of 64-bit processing, including the ability to do more work per clock cycle and address greater amounts of memory, without having to necessarily rewrite software.
[October 16, 2001, 8:56]
Sun Starts Pay-as-you-go Supercomputing
News Sun does well when they get to rewrite the rules of the game," Sageza Group analyst Clay Rider said. Although IBM and Hewlett-Packard offer competing rent-a-supercomputer programmes, Sun is trying to make itself stand out with a pricing strategy it...
[September 21, 2004, 7:45]
OpenOffice.org 2.3 Released
News It also includes a rewrite of the suite's chart component, according to OpenOffice.org's marketing project lead, John McCreesh. That version will run natively on Mac OS X, and could benefit from IBM's involvement in the project.
[September 19, 2007, 14:09]
Developers Squashing GCC 4.0 Bugs
News To rewrite your optimiser top to bottom and not make things substantially worse is a real achievement. Widely used 32-bit x86 chips such as Intel's Pentium have a scarce supply of registers, but newer 64-bit versions double the number, making x86...
[May 9, 2005, 17:25]
Next Itanium To Run At 1.5GHz, Says Intel
News Intel must meet a higher standard for Itanium to catch on because adopting the new chip requires companies to completely rewrite their software. Intel's ability to crank out new, faster versions of Itanium each year is a key part of its argument...
[November 27, 2002, 13:29]
Red Hat And Novell Hit With Linux Patent Suit
News The open-source community has often claimed that any patent infringement can be quickly removed by collective efforts to rewrite parts of any program, leaving the patent holder with only retrospective damages.
[October 12, 2007, 17:53]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Government grants to inventors are helping rewrite the historic pattern: invented in Britain, developed in America, exploited in Japan," says an article in the Sunday Times. The system is called HITS (Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search) and is being...
[June 22, 1998, 16:21]
IBM Bundles Up Workplace
News Next year, for example, IBM will rewrite the Lotus client software to run on the Workplace client software and offer customers an option of running a mail server that is based on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) server standard, said Ken...
[November 10, 2004, 8:08]
Supercomputing On Tour
News Scientists must rewrite much of their code to work on Blue Gene, but that hasn't hurt its popularity. One of the products of that race - Blue Gene, a modular system that this year unseated Japan's long-reigning performance champ the Earth Simulator...
[September 26, 2005, 10:45]
OS/2 And The Path To Freedom
Leader Failing that, and given that OS/2 is now utterly stable and defined, the community could just set to work to rewrite the lot from existing documentation: a big job, but probably not as big as shifting a stubborn IBM.
[January 25, 2008, 15:12]
