Stacking the deck on platform dominance

Platform dominance is the pat explanation often given for Microsoft's steel-like grip on the throat of today's enterprise IT. After all, if you control the technology from the Web browsers on their desktops down to the OS on their servers, there's not a lot of room for competitors to slip in and stake out territory of any size. Given the strength of the approach, it's no surprise to see Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Red Hat Inc. now trying to imbue their firms' with a similar vertical coherence.

IBM to open source more WSDM code
IBM is contributing more code to the open-source community based on the Web services distributed management standard, the vendor said Wednesday.

Copyright fires up Linux in Australia
Linux Australia and the Open Source Industry Association today urged the Australian federal government not to abandon market competition.

Novell funds open source Bandit
Novell has launched an ambitious open source identity management project, which aims to allow companies to integrate different identity systems and provide a consistent approach to securing and managing identity.

Tools emerging to align developers with IT's identity infrastructure efforts
The tools needed to help ease the task of integrating corporate identity management systems and applications are finally starting to emerge and will represent the next big breakthrough in the technology, according to research firm the Burton Group.

Tokyo terabytes trudge becomes a virtual link
When business decisions confronted Axa Tech with the daunting task of relocating 300 servers from Japan to Melbourne it considered all its options, including the use of cargo ships.

JBoss to start open sourcing systems management agent
JBoss is opening up its Operations Network agent technology to developers in a bid to drive standards in open source systems management, the middleware vendor is due to announce Tuesday.

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