Software

Sun Microsystems Inc. trumpeted its latest desktop Linux milestone Thursday, declaring that German original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Markement GmbH had sold over one million units of its StarOffice productivity suite. But Germany is StarOffice's home market

The federal government on Thursday announced an investment of $4.5 million for a series of projects from the Software Human Resource Council (SHRC), all funded under the Sector Council Program.

HANOVER, GERMANY - Most security issues and virus outbreaks happen because people don't know how to protect themselves or don't bother to do what they know they should. In the latest update to Windows XP, Microsoft Corp. has focused on helping people become more aware of what they need to do, and encouraging them to actually do it, lead program manager for Service Pack 2 Ryan Burkhardt said Thursday.

Novell Inc. has just released SuSE Linux 9.1 in Personal and Professional Editions, heeding the call from users for more scalability and better security in an enterprise-level Linux distribution.

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced test versions of several of its management products, including a new, lower-cost, "Express" version of its Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) product.

Executives from Sun Microsystems Inc.'s software group Tuesday said that the company plans to ship a version of its Java Enterprise System server software for Red Hat Linux within 60 days. But they also took direct aim at Red Hat Inc.'s Linux offering as a key rival of Sun's Solaris operating system.

Despite challenges, users are finding that investing in customer relationship management applications can deliver a payoff.

NetScout Systems Inc. has bundled its nGenius network performance management software with Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux server to simplify the job of getting it up and running.