Software

CARY, N.C. - SAS Institute Inc., the quiet business intelligence giant, on Tueday released its latest software upgrade

Four major Linux distributors have sharply criticized a recent report from Forrester Research Inc. that found that Microsoft Corp. outperformed them in responding to and fixing security flaws.

Novell Inc. recently annouced it has penned deals with IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to distribute its SuSE Linux on servers and desktop computers.

The next major challenge for e-government in New Zealand is to focus on the needs of the customer rather than government agencies, says new e-government unit head Laurence Millar.

Inertia is cited as one of the main reasons why free and open source software (FOSS) has not yet made significant inroads into Canadian enterprises, two industry insiders agreed during a discussion at Real World Linux in Toronto on Wednesday.

San Diego-based Lindows.com Inc., a Linux software vendor, announced on Wednesday that it would formally change its desktop operating system name from LindowsOS to "Linspire."

A U.S. District Court judge has stayed a lawsuit brought by Red Hat Inc. against The SCO Group Inc., saying that the key issues in the case are already being examined in a separate lawsuit brought by SCO against IBM Corp. in Utah.

Job cuts are rattling through Montreal this week as both Celestica Inc. and CAE Inc. announced plans to reduce their workforces by a total of approximately 1,000 jobs.