Todd R. Weiss

IBM Corp. hopes to make imitation profitable through a newly created business unit that will sell to customers the same corporate collaboration systems it designed and uses in-house to keep executives and employees in touch.

Red Hat is going on the offensive in the business computing marketplace by unveiling a new high-end Linux Advanced Server operating system and forging ahead with partnerships to spread the Linux gospel to large companies.

Linux market leader Red Hat Inc. has restructured its business to widen its focus on the enterprise market while scaling back its embedded Linux operations and closing its network consulting unit.

Linux market leader Red Hat Inc. has restructured its business to widen its focus on the enterprise market while scaling back its embedded Linux operations and closing its network consulting unit.

After giving away free downloads of its StarOffice office productivity suite for more than two years, Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced that it will begin charging for the software beginning in May, although it plans to include support and services to users.

Although two potential security vulnerabilities affecting the Linux operating system have surfaced in the past three weeks, analysts and two users say the incidents won't erode confidence in Linux as a secure and economical alternative to Windows and Unix.

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) continues to grapple with criticism about its IT infrastructure after an embarrassing incident this week in which student visas were granted to two of the 19 Sept. 11 terrorists. Both men were killed in the terror attacks.

In what is believed to be the first of its kind, a new non-destructive computer worm has been found that apparently can e-mail itself out in either English or Japanese, depending on the native language of the recipient.