HP seeks pretrial ruling in Itanium lawsuit against Oracle

	Bull to move legacy Cobol and C apps to a Java environment | Open source code libraries suffer from vulnerabilities
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	HP seeks pretrial ruling in Itanium lawsuit against Oracle Hewlett-Packard filed Monday for a pretrial ruling that Oracle is contractually required to offer future versions of its software on the Itanium platform, claiming that an agreement between HP and Intel ensured that the Itanium was not an end-of-life processor as claimed by Oracle. Oracle has also asked for summary adjudication in the case, which is scheduled to come up for trial on May 31. Read More WHITE PAPER: AppAssure Software Backup for Virtual and Physical Servers Best Practices Read this popular whitepaper by Don Jones, a world renown author, speaker and Microsoft MVP about the Top 10 Best Practices of backing up Microsoft Windows Server on Virtual and Physical Servers. Learn more In this Issue Bull to move legacy Cobol and C apps to a Java environment Open source code libraries suffer from vulnerabilities RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! Bull to move legacy Cobol and C apps to a Java environment Bull has unveiled a new transaction processing application platform, Libert TP, which it says will allow businesses to move legacy applications from Cobol or C to a Java environment at their own pace. "We have customers who have huge repositories of business methods written in Cobol or C. They should be running on a modern platform like Java EE," said Laurent de Jerphanion, marketing manager for Libert TP. Read More Open source code libraries suffer from vulnerabilities A study of how 31 popular open source code libraries were downloaded over the past 12 months found that more than a third of the 1,261 versions of these libraries had a known vulnerability and about a quarter of the downloads were tainted. The study was undertaken by Aspect Security, which evaluates software for vulnerabilities, with Sonatype, a firm that provides a central repository housing more than 300,000 libraries for downloading open source components and gets 4 billion requests per year. Read More
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