Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability which could allow elevation of privilege from authenticated user to LocalSystem. Affecting Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 and all supported versions and editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.
Canonical is getting ready to release Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition. You can download it for free on Thursday, April 24.
MySQL users are upset about plans Sun Microsystems disclosed this week to keep some strategically planned features — and the source code — closed. So, only paying customers will get access to the new database features.
Here’s an interesting question making its way around the World Wide Web: If you didn’t have to worry about the administrative tasks with SQL Server, would you consider using SQL Server as a service?
Good news for developers this week. Zend Technologies has announced its Zend Core product will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Providing parity between Windows Server and Linux in running PHP. All Zend products will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform by the end of the year.
There’s an interesting discussion on hacking going on over at LinuxForums. A poster from Fullerton, California who uses Suse Linux says he’s been the target of hackers hired. By a worldwide multi-million dollar company after a Wikipedia slip exposed his IP address, among other things.
2008 marked not just the beginning of a new year for Linux vendor Red Hat, but also a new beginning for its new CEO Jim Whitehurst. Whitehurst spoke with the InternetNews about his plans to tackle the challenges the Linux company faces.
Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco’s community. The company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.
Windows Server 2008 will release to manufacturing in February after all, InformationWeek reports.
Information Week magazine is declaring the top open-source stories of 2007. Among them: Microsoft and Samba, Dell shipping Ubuntu, and GPL Version 3. Here’s an excerpt from the article penned by Serdar Yegulalp regarding the Ubuntu story.