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Sourcefire, best known for its Snort intrusion-prevention technology, Tuesday is unveiling a new open source project called Razorback that’s designed to spot malware and especially zero-day exploits.
“We want others to test it to see if our idea about this new protection framework is as innovative as we think it is,” says Matt Watchinski, senior director [...]

Sourcefire, best known for its Snort intrusion-prevention technology, Tuesday is unveiling a new open source project called Razorback that’s designed to spot malware and especially zero-day exploits.
“We want others to test it to see if our idea about this new protection framework is as innovative as we think it is,” says Matt Watchinski, senior director [...]

With the impending release of version 9.0 of the open-source Postgres database, due in mid-August, the developers behind the project are hoping that the new features will attract more interest from enterprises.
“The features going into 9.0 [were created to] ease the burden for people coming from proprietary databases to Postgres,” said Bruce Momjian, a core [...]

Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition.

“All IBM employees will be asked to use it as their default browser,” Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and Linux at IBM’s Software Group, said in a blog post [...]

Cisco and Tandberg made their big post-merger entrance at the InfoComm conference in Las Vegas this week, promoting an interoperability protocol that will come on a product in July and introducing some other new products.
The $3.4 billion merger that closed in April brought together Cisco’s fast-growing TelePresence Meeting System business with Tandberg’s established lineup of [...]

Oracle has imposed a fee of $90 per user on a plug-in for Microsoft Office that was available at no cost under Sun Microsystems’ ownership.
The tool allows Word, Excel, and PowerPoint users to read, edit, and save documents in the ODF (Open Document Format), which is used by the competing OpenOffice productivity suite.
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