How Apache & Plan 9 will defeat Microsoft's Passport:
Dominance of Apache means Microsoft won't have the votes to enforce its
approach
(Linux.SYS-CON.com, 22 September 2003) ¡ª Linux gets a lot of press these
days, but much of it appears condescending and is more about the phenomenon
of its emergence and growth than it is about the value and use of the
technology. That may be about to change, and for the better.
As a group, the so-called "mainstream press" often appears to favor Microsoft
and show an appalling lack of technical depth in its enthusiastic repetition
of the latest Microsoft press release. There¡¯s been a lot of speculation
on why this is and whether it even happens. So far, no definitive research
provides answers one way or the other.
I think there are two explanations. First, the press is largely the victim of
a Microsoft marketing strategy that plays o... (more)
BEA Seeks "Ubiquity" Through Open Source Community, Say Its Top Execs Oh
Beehive!
The Apache Software Foundation, the leading open source community partner for
commercial companies, has announced that BEA's "Project Beehive" is
now officially an open-source project in the Apache community.
Based on the runtime application framework in BEA WebLogic Workshop, what
will now be known as Apache Beehive is designed to be the industry's first,
easy-to-use, open source foundation for building enterprise Java and
service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications
"Through Apache Beehive, BEA ... (more)
Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.0 has been released. It represents a major update,
the Apache Foundation says, and acts as a mail filter that uses advanced
statistical and heuristic tests to identify spam.
Some features of SpamAssassin, according to Apache:
* Wide-spectrum. SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests
to identify spam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify
one aspect which they can craft their messages to work around.
* Free software. It is distributed under the same terms and conditions as
other popular open-source software packages such as... (more)
The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache HTTP Server Project have
released version 2.0.55 of the Apache HTTP
Server. This Announcement notes the significant changes in 2.0.55 as compared
to 2.0.55.
This version of Apache is principally a security release, the foundation
says. Several potential security flaws are addressed, three of which address
several classes of HTTP Request and Response Splitting/Spoofing attacks.
This release also addresses a number of cross-platform bugs, as well as
specific issues on OS/X 10.4, Win32, AIX as well as all EBCDIC platforms, and
adds compati... (more)
Synaptris, based in San Jose, with offices in Singapore, the UK, and India,
now has more than 2,000 customers and 17,0000 licensed users spread across
40 countries, the company reports. Synaptris is focused on helping businesses
generate"'actionable information" from silos of data, through its a reporting
technology.
The company's IntelliVIEW is a reporting solution that allows developers to
connect to any Relational database (including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS
Access, MySQL, Sybase etc.), design interactive & preformatted reports
(columnar reports, cross tabs, summary, sub r... (more)
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