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Windows administrators have long been denied good scripting tools with real enterprise features. Instead, they quite often offer little more than the most basic syntax colouring and text editing. PrimalScript 4.0 by Sapien gives administrators the features they

A group of companies including PalmSource Inc. and France T

IBM Corp. has spearheaded a consortium of storage industry players to form an open source storage community, which the company described as a "major milestone" for the storage market. But the list of members is missing the top three vendors in the storage space: EMC Corp., Symantec (formerly Veritas) and Hewlett Packard (HP).

Oracle Corp. President Charles Phillips laid out the welcome mat Thursday to the users his company will soon inherit from CRM software vendor Siebel Systems Inc., assuring them lifetime support for their applications and the benefits of integration with his company's back-end software.

Black Duck Software Inc. is making its protexIP/OnDemand software-compliance assessment service available free of charge from Tuesday through the end of the year, according to a company executive. The service analyzes software projects to determine whether they contain any pieces of open-source code and ensure that the code meets licensing obligations.

Deloitte & Touche unveiled its list of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. Medical equipment company NuVasive topped the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 by growing revenue from US$52,000 in 2000 to $38.4 million last year.

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday that it plans to consolidate the licensing terms for its Shared Source initiative under three license templates in an effort to simplify the program for developers.

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