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Friday, June 06, 2003

PeopleSoft calls Oracle bid 'atrocious'. Oracle announces a surprise $5.1 billion takeover bid for the enterprise software maker, just days after PeopleSoft said it was acquiring rival J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion. [CNET News.com]

4:40:16 PM

Vector Set to Acquire Corel - Struggling Canadian software firm Corel Corp. on Thursday indicated that it was about to be acquired by San Francisco's Vector Capital Corp.
In March, Corel admitted that it was actively trying to find a buyer for its business and had signed a non-disclosure and standstill agreement with Vector Capital that let Vector investigate a takeover bid. Eweek
12:05:43 PM

InformationWeek > Linux's Parentage > First Analyst Impressed By SCO's 'Proof' > June 5, 2003 - Apparently the most telling evidence is that parts of the SCO code and Linux code include identical annotations made by developers when they wrote the programs, says DiDio, who compares such notes to the signature or fingerprint of a developer's work. "The fact that these appear to be transposed from Unix System V into Linux I find to be very damaging." DiDio says she was shown several instances where the source code and developer's comments in one operating system were the same as in the other operating system.
10:56:58 AM

SCO says clause bolsters Linux claim. SCO Group discovers a clause in a contract that it says could bolster its potential legal claims against Linux users. [CNET News.com]
9:25:49 AM

Oracle makes bid for PeopleSoft. Oracle announces a surprise $5.1 billion takeover bid for the enterprise software maker, just days after PeopleSoft said it was acquiring rival J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion. [CNET News.com]
9:22:10 AM

Wired To Publish Slammer Source Code

Wired To Publish Slammer Source Code

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 06, @08:04AM
from the here-take-two-copies dept.
Juan Carlos writes "Wired Magazine is going to publish the source code to the SQL Slammer worm in its next issue, due Tuesday, along with some kind of play-by-play of the worm's rapid spread. I actually think this is a neat idea for an article. But the fact is, the disassembly of Slammer (aka Sapphire) has been available on the Net since late January -- just hours after the worm started to spread."

[Slashdot]

9:20:46 AM