IBM Corp. and VMware Inc. announced a partnership Tuesday to work on improving partitioning software for high end Intel-based servers.

Transcript of interview, with link to press release, sound file, video. [ITworld.com]

Few names in computing are bigger than that of Dennis Ritchie. In this interview, Ritchie talks about the future of C and the C99 standard, Plan 9, and offers advice to would-be authors of programming languages.

Tips and tricks for SSH users and administrators.

Chinese censors have blocked access to Chinese Wikipedia that was created as a free and open source of information.

About the object-oriented revolution, rigors of real-world software development, diverging of C/C++, and some additions to C++ standard he would like. [LinuxWorld]

ITWorld.com - You're wrong if you think COBOL programmers are doomed to go the way of the Edsel. COBOL developers who know the Internet can write their own job ticket.

James R. Borck for InfoWorld. In the nearly five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response.

Programming guru, Robert Martin, on languages of the coming decade. [ITworld.com]

By Michael Koch at ITworld.com. The article offers advice on using XML and related technologies to interface a mainframe from an application server or servlet.