Articles by Matthew Beale

Moving to create a total desktop solution for Linux, Corel Corp. (Nasdaq: CORL) announced Friday that the first beta version of its WordPerfect Office 2000 suite for Linux is available through online beta testing sites "WordPerfect 8 has been the most popular Linux application with over 900,000 downloads to date on CNET alone, commented Dr. Michael...

RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS) announced a licensing agreement on Monday with mobile security solutions provider Certicom to incorporate desktop-to-server e-commerce security development tools into its products Under the terms of the agreement -- which builds upon an earlier product-driven alliance -- RSA will use the Certicom SSL Plus toolkit in...

Linux-based computer system manufacturer EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZE) and online auctioneer iDEAL International, Inc. announced a deal Thursday to offer Linux-related products to patrons of the DealDeal.com business-to-consumer (B2C) auction site The deal calls for the EBIZ e-commerce Web site, TheLinuxStore.com, to add computers, periphe...

Computer Associates, Inc. (NYSE: CA) has announced a distribution, marketing and support agreement with Linux vendor Red Hat, Inc Under the terms of the agreement -- which builds upon an established relationship -- Red Hat will bundle enterprise management solutions produced by Computer Associates with the Enterprise Edition packages of its distrib...

In an effort to enter the potentially lucrative Internet appliance market, security solutions provider Rainbow Technologies, Inc. struck an OEM agreement Tuesday with Network Engines to offer businesses a secure e-commerce enabling option Under the terms of the agreement, Network Engines will incorporate Rainbow's PKI (public key infrastructure)-ba...

Server appliance maker NETmachines, Inc. announced a strategic alliance Monday with Cybernet Systems Corp. to push low-cost, simplified e-commerce solutions to small and mid-sized businesses Cybernet, a developer of Linux-based thin server applications, will provide an OEM version of its NetMAX Red Hat Linux-based server series for the NETmachines ...

After failing in its attempt to acquire the JustLinux.com open-source community site, EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZ) has launched TheLinuxLab.com to provide technical support to users of the open-source operating system The independent Linux certification authority and open source support provider will complement TheLinuxStore.com, an EBIZ-o...

Utility software solutions provider Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA) has announced that it is incorporating clustering solutions by Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTO), a provider of enterprise storage management software, into its new line of e-commerce security appliances Some models in the new WebShield E-ppliance line will be embedded wi...

E-commerce solutions provider INTERSHOP Communications, Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with server appliance developer Cobalt Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: COBT) to deliver a Linux-based e-commerce appliance The new Intershop RaQ will combine Intershop Merchant for Red Hat Linux with Cobalt's RaQ 3 server appliance, enabling service providers...

RSA Security, Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS) and online trust services provider VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) have announced a strategic alliance to accelerate the development of wireless e-commerce RSA has named VeriSign as its preferred provider of wireless trust and validation services, and VeriSign has named RSA as its preferred supplier of software secur...

In a move to escalate its challenge to Linux vendors Caldera Systems and Red Hat, TurboLinux announced this week that it has pulled in close to $57 million (US$) in a second round of funding Computer manufacturers Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) and Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) topped a list of investors that are looking to back the provider of Linux-based business and...

Baltimore Technologies (Nasdaq: BALT), a United Kingdom-based provider of e-commerce and enterprise security solutions, announced today that it has acquired U.S.-based e-commerce security provider GTE CyberTrust Solutions in a stock deal valued at $150 million (US$) The deal, which was announced at the opening of the RSA 2000 Security Conference in...

Linux vendor Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) announced this week that it has begun shipping a new version of its Linux OS for Compaq Alpha computer systems Red Hat Linux 6.1 Deluxe for Compaq Alpha Systems, created in collaboration with Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ), is optimized for enterprise and Internet applications. The product boasts such features...

Web application platform vendor Allaire Corp. (Nasdaq: ALLR) moved to accelerate its e-commerce strategy this week by striking a strategic partnership with MERANT (Nasdaq: MRNT) to deliver data access and integration applications to its fledgling ColdFusion cross-platform Web application server product for Linux Under the terms of the agreement, Al...

Computer book and operating system publisher Macmillan USA announced Monday that it has tapped RSA Security (Nasdaq: RSAS) to provide security software for a Web server that will be included in upcoming Linux product releases In addition to licensing RSA's BSAFE SSL-C security protocol components, Macmillan will utilize the RSA Security Professiona...

In an effort to jumpstart consumer acceptance of its recently released Linux distribution, Corel Corp. (Nasdaq: CORL) has tapped the services of Web-enabling solutions provider GraphOn Corp. (Nasdaq: GOJO) Corel will incorporate the GraphOn Bridges product into the Corel LINUX OS package to enable users to run Windows applications over any connecti...

E-commerce security solutions provider and research firm nCipher is alerting the online community to a potential threat that the company believes could leave e-commerce operations vulnerable to the theft of private cryptographic keys from a server nCipher is warning that e-commerce Web sites may be vulnerable to a "key-finding attack," allowing una...

Q How did your company get started selling over the Internet? A There's a great Silicon Valley story here about a gentleman named Pierre Omidyar. He was working as a software developer here in Silicon Valley, and he had always been fascinated by how you can establish marketplaces to buy and sell goods and services. He had also been fascinated by how you can bring together fragmented audiences. Because of his interest in the Internet, and his background in software, he developed a software program that allowed people, in one spot, to list items of various interest and various degrees. It allowed people to be able to come to that very same site and look at what's for sale and bid on and buy those items. He used the auction process as the method for establishing how merchandise is valued and eventually how it is exchanged between buyer and seller.

VA Linux Systems (Nasdaq: LNUX) announced today that it has been selected by Web-based applications provider NetLedger to supply rackmount Linux servers and integration management services for the NetLedger infrastructure Under the terms of the agreement between the companies, NetLedger will incorporate several hundred VA Linux FullOn 2x2 rackmount...

Network Associates (Nasdaq: NETA) has announced that it will offer Y2K-related computer virus information and support to the CyberAssurance National Information Center effort that is being coordinated by the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion Information Coordination Center (ICC) The utility software solutions vendor will lend the reso...