Software

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced his company will be offering full support services to Red Hat Linux customers. In a nutshell, Oracle's strategy is this: appropriate what Red Hat creates and build a support services business on top of it. IT World Canada's online editor, Joaquim P. Menezes reports.

Millions of pounds of public funding have been put into two projects designed to promote open source in the U.K. and across Europe.

Microsoft has let the planned shipment date for its Service Pack 3 update to Windows XP slip again, this time to the first half of 2008.

Windows users have raised concerns about Microsoft 's new licensing for Windows Vista that will allow them to transfer a Vista licence to only one machine other than the computer for which it was purchased.

Microsoft Corp. has reissued a Windows security patch that it published last week because the software did not work properly on Windows 2000 systems.

Despite interest in what could become a lucrative industry, Internet companies face a number of roadblocks to delivering applications and services to mobile phone users and they made their complaints known during the Symbian Smartphone Show in London.

Although the mobile industry is keen to duplicate the success of Web 2.0 applications on the Internet, the wholesale transfer of that new approach over to the mobile world won't work, experts said.

In a full-page advertisement in London's Financial Times, McAfee charged that Microsoft's decision to "shut-off access" to the kernel amounts to anticompetitive behavior. In this interview, Stephen Toulouse, senior product manager with Microsoft's security technology unit, explained his company's position.