SYS-CON Media News Desk

Novell won’t be crying for Argentina if it is able to follow through on a projection to sell 250,000 units of its Desktop Linux into this large South American country by the end of the year. A series of 'Chalk Talks' will debut at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. A new evaluation by research company IDC of seventeen SOA vendors says that SOA is starting to be deployed in departmental and even enterprise-wide applications. A survey of consumer satisfaction in July 2005 conducted by UK-based market researcher Keynote Systems ranked Google in first place i... (more)

SYS-CON i-Technology Podcast: Bill Gates, Macromedia, India, and Cyberspace

Top stories: Bill Gates proclaims a golden age of software to college students. Macromedia opens MAX 2005 in Anaheim, California. The first of several reports from a recent SYS-CON trip to India is now posted. Dion Hinchcliffe writes about the potential demise of cyberspace. ... (more)

SYS-CON i-Technology Podcast: Microsoft Announces Re-Org

Microsoft announced a long-anticipated re-org, simplifying its seven divisions into three, focused on Windows, Office, and Games. Oracle Corporation is holding its annual Oracle OpenWorld event at San Francisco’s Moscone Center this week. The Eclipse Foundation has announced that mobile telephony leader Nokia has joined the foundation and will also serve as a board member. ... (more)

SYS-CON i-Technology Podcast: Firefox 1.0.7 Released

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 has been released and is now available for download. David Ferrucci, from IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, believes that a new open-source called UIMA, or you-ee-ma, offers advantages to developers and users alike in a wide variety of industries. Service-oriented architecture, or SOA,r efers to an architectural solution that creates an environment in which servi... (more)