Michael Doornbos

Archive for January, 2005

Products for fixed WiMax to ship this year; vendors now eyeing mobile form of WiMax expected in 2006
So where’s the mobile part? $500 DSL replacement doesn’t sound too good to me.

17 Jan, 2005

Sun Slams IBM over x86 Decision

Posted by: mike In: Uncategorized

eWeek Reports:
“BM’s decision not to test, certify and support its enterprise software applications on Solaris 10 for x86 platforms has angered Sun Microsystems Inc. officials, who say the move smacks of monopolistic behavior. ADVERTISEMENT
Larry Singer, vice president of Sun’s Global Information Systems Strategy Office, in Santa Clara, Calif., told eWEEK that the move is even [...]

IBM has released the code on 500 software patents to allow developers to use the technology to freely develop open source technology.

Get your info here.

10 Jan, 2005

Sun Yanks FreeBSD’s Java Licence

Posted by: mike In: Uncategorized

Yikes. I’ve never understood Sun, don’t think I ever will.
It’s in the FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter, December 21, 2004

This Infoworld article reports: “Novell (Profile, Products, Articles) last week said it will soon detail plans to include server virtualization technology in its SUSE Linux operating system. Red Hat (Profile, Products, Articles) intends to do the same thing with its Linux distribution, and a leading contender for both vendors may be an open-source virtualization technology [...]

Hey, pretty cool, I helped built some of the communication parts of this.

06 Jan, 2005

Microsoft Launches Anti-Spyware

Posted by: mike In: Uncategorized

Well, they’ve done it. I sure feel better now that they are taking care of the spyware problems themselves. They’ve done such a *wonderful job* with security in the past, maybe I’ll let them hold on to the keys to my car, and my wallet, and my kids…
“I’d like to get a [...]

05 Jan, 2005

Whitehat security testing

Posted by: mike In: Uncategorized

You can do great whitehat testing with Whoppix

Infoworld reports version 5.0 to feature stored procedures, other enhancements