Stories about: Mimics

Mary Lou Jepsen stirred up a controversy when she left the struggling One Laptop Per Child nonprofit effort in December to start her own for-profit company, Pixel Qi, with the goal to create a US$75 laptop using technologies she invented at OLPC.

Centeris, which provides cross-platform authentication via Microsoft's Active Directory, Tuesday enhanced its Likewise platform (Clear Choice Test of Likewise)Â and an added open source project that will be distributed with the top Linux operating systems.

Clad in his pajamas, Red Hat co-founder Marc Ewing arrived at work at 11 a.m. one day in 1998, unlocked the office for a new employee, and promptly left to go back to sleep.

Parallels for Desktop 3.0 improves on a good thing with 3D graphics acceleration, snapshots, and usability tweaks.

More than half of the wireless LAN devices being used at this week's RSA Conference on information security are themselves unsecured.

Novell released a new version of Suse Linux for servers and desktops on Monday, marking the start of a renewed push to attract enterprise customers to its open-source operating system.

Sun Microsystems Inc. remains undaunted by a recent analyst report urging major changes at the company, and will forge ahead with plans to win new business through its server and desktop software systems.

Fueled by the ongoing legal battle between Unix vendor The SCO Group and IBM, someone in the open-source community has apparently decided that the whole situation is a mockery in need of mocking.

Paul Mockapetris is surprised that the DNS (Domain Name System) hasn't changed more in the 20 years since he invented it, but he doesn't expect it to run out of steam any time soon.

Sun Microsystems is developing new server software to manage the provisioning of server resources in distributed computing environments, one of several products it will roll out in the coming years as part of its ambitious N1 project, Sun officials said last Friday.

Those rare animals at Sun Microsystems using rival Microsoft's Windows operating system have edged closer to extinction, as the company's head of operating systems has decided the time is right to live the lifestyle and move to Linux.