"Fantastico De Luxe by Netenberg is an add-on for the popular cPanel web management software, available on many web hosting providers. It promises an easy, turn-key installation of dozens of web applications, including the Drupal CMS.

A failure to comply with an anti-competition ruling has landed Microsoft with a €280.5 ($357) million fine. This follows an EU ruling back in 2004 that the software giant had to provide its rivals with information concerning the Windows operating system. EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes stressed that “Microsoft has still not put an end to its illegal conduct.” She continued "no company is above the law" and said that there had been no alternative other than a hefty fine”. "I regret that, more than two years after the decision ... Microsoft has still not put an end to its illegal conduct," she added. Microsoft said it would appeal, claiming the “unprecedented” amount was unfair.

Windows Server and Linux are growing up fast, but they still aren't a match for the solid, stable Unix systems on the high-end of the server scale. That's the conclusion of a report from The Yankee Group, which released it 2006 Global Server ReliabilitySurvey on Wednesday. The report compared a number of server operating systems in areas of reliability, down time and recovery. It found that Windows Server 2003 showed the highest reliability gains, surpassed only by mature Unix-based server operating...

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A Notes client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be available on July 24, with a version for Novell SUSE Linux Desktop for Enterprise 10 version due within 90 after that, IBM said. IBM is making a full Notes client available for Linux a bit earlier than expected. While IBM has long been an ardent Linux proponent and promised full support for Macintosh, Linux and Windows clients in its next release code-named Project Hannover , the company has accelerated the Linux piece. A Notes client for Red Hat...

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The Web Host Talk, the European web hosting discussion board launched daily European web hosting news service. The start date of the web hosting newsline was July 3rd. The newsline covers news and stories about companies, products, services, hosting surveys and trends.

OS ANGELES, Aug. 27 (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust complaint against an Internet oversight group brought by a company that controls directories for Internet users worldwide. The ruling Thursday, by Judge A. Howard Matz of the United States District Court for Central California, dismissed the suit by VeriSign Inc. against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann.

Excedent Technologies, the leading provider of managed email hosting with integrated security threat prevention, today issued a list of characteristics that businesses and service providers should look for when outsourcing their email hosting to a third party provider.

With the release of its first Linux laptop last week, Hewlett-Packard predicts this year the free operating system will unseat the Mac as the No. 2 desktop operating system behind Windows. Indeed, some analysts say Linux displaced the Mac as the leading alternative in 2003.

Cisco Systems is investigating the possible theft of source code for operating systems that run its network infrastructure equipment, an event that could open up security threats for its customers.

SAN FRANCISCO - A flaw in Microsoft's almost universally used Windows operating system could allow hackers to take control of a PC by luring users to a malicious website and coaxing them into clicking on a link, the company warned today.

MICROSOFT SPENT $25,000 to catch the Sasser worm virus writer by the simple ruse of paying his mates to grass him up.
Apparently five friends of Sven Jaschan approached Microsoft and asked about the $5 million fund that Vole has for virus bounties. The eighteen year old faces five years in federal German clink.

A SECURITY WARNING from Microsoft and from AV companies said that the W32.sasser.worm and variants are marching across the Internet. Source: The Inquirer
URL: http://www.theinquirer.net//?article=15650

With its aim on the enterprise market, MySQL AB on Wednesday debuted a preview edition of a clustered version of its open-source database, and said it would push out a production version in the third quarter of the year.The goal, said the Swedish-based open-source developer, is to expand its market to customers that require a high-availability database, but don't want to shell out the money for higher-priced software from database providers such as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft.

Microsoft released four significant security bulletins for its Windows operating system on Tuesday as part of its monthly security update, including three that carry a critical severity rating.The three security bulletins flagged with the highest warning level, MS04-011 through MS04-013, address 20 different holes in Windows XP, Windows Server, Windows 2000 and various earlier flavors of Windows. The Windows vulnerabilities could enable hackers to remotely execute malicious code in the Windows Outlook Express e-mail client and other components of Windows, Microsoft said.

The risk to national security posed by Linux is grave, said Dan O'Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software, for now that foreign terrorists know that Linux is being used in advanced U.S. defense applications, these subversives will "use fake identities to contribute subversive software that will soon be incorporated into our most advanced defense systems."