Microsoft meets EU deadline for server documentation

Microsoft has met today's deadline for the submission of revised documentation on server interoperability, the European Commission has confirmed. Potential licensees of the server technology detailed will now evaluate whether the latest documentation contains the necessary information to allow the development of work group server operating system products that are fully interoperable with Microsoft software. The independent Monitoring Trustee, Professor Neil Barrett will also test the documentation in order to verify its accuracy and the commission will decide in due course whether or not Microsoft is in compliance with the requirements of the EU's March 2004 Decision: : that it provides complete and accurate technical documentation on server interface information and make that information available to licensees at a reasonable and non-discriminatory price. ...more

Mandrake marches into new year with enterprise server and desktop range

Mandrakesoft has marched into the new year with a full set of corporate products, including a desktop. The company is promising lengthy development cycles for the most robust and stable platforms and a five-year maintenance program, meaning customers can be assured the products will not be superseded and will continue to receive support. Mandrake's development process for its MandrakeLinux line goes through three stages: an in-house core version known as cooker, an initial product released under the Community tag, and an Offical version which is the result of feedback from thousands of developers using the Community version. ...more

PGP releases Desktop 8.0.3

Secure messaging specialists, PGP Corporation ahs released the latest version of PGP Desktop. The new version 8.0. ...more

SCO pulls plug on Sequent licence

SCO has officially written to Sequent Computer Systems (now owned by IBM) informing the company that it, by SCO's reckoning, no longer has the right to sell Dynix/ptx (Sequent's version of Unix). In the letter SCO restated its belief that elements of Sequent's Unix source code found their way into Linux 2.4 and 2. ...more

Sony launches new CD camera

The latest two models in the Sony Mavica range of digital still cameras will feature a CD-R/RW drive. The MVC-CD300 is a 3.3 megapixel camera while the MVC-CD200 boasts a of 2. ...more