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Open - Source Company Gets $10 Million In Funding
Stronger financial position will help JBoss compete with IBM and BEA in application-server market.
IBM Confident in Face of SCO's Legal Steps
The legal maneuvering between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM took a new twist as IBM on Thursday gave the green light for SCO to amend its complaint, dropping its trade secret claims and replacing them with copyright violations.
Sco Fails to Sue End User on Schedule
The SCO Group's self-imposed 90-day deadline to sue an end user for not paying its Linux tax has come and gone. "You can bet your bottom dollar," writes veteran industry commentator Maureen O'Gara, "that SCO didn't want to do anything to set the magistrate's teeth on edge before she decides whether SCO has given IBM enough proof that it's got a case and decides whether or not IBM should turn over all its various versions of AIX and Dynix to SCO, which claims that's where most of the evidence resides."
Air Force says: send back the free MS Office
Microsoft recently sent out half a million free copies of Microsoft Office, some of which were sent to members of the United States Air Force. Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez has informed members of the Air Force that they are obligated to return the software without using it, because of military regulations prohibiting the acceptance of gifts from those with which they do business. Interesting!
Notoriety for Desktop Linux
Microsoft's legal entanglement with Lindows.com turns focus on possibilities of desktop Linux; Novell and Sun best positioned in enterprise market, says analyst; server Linux penetration could mean opportunity on desktop side.
Introduction Skolelinux: a Linux distro for schools
Skolelinux is an ambitious project that aims to provide schools with a flexible and low-cost IT solution based on Linux and KDE. I interviewed Bart Cornelis (Belgian), Kurt Gramlich (German), Conrad Newton (American) and Knut Yrvin (Norwegian) to learn more about Skolelinux and the role that KDE plays in it.
Conectiva alert: XFree86
A variety of issues are addressed in this update.
Dead End SCO
"I was just sent this photograph, and it made me laugh, so I asked for permission to share it with all of you, so you can enjoy it too. Someone drove by SCO headquarters and took a picture."
Open palmtop environment for Linux gains SDK, IDE
The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie) project to develop a free graphical application environment for Linux handhelds and webpads has released a software develpment kit (SDK) based on the KDevelop3 open source IDE.
Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business Model
"Move to open source frees enterprise communications market from proprietary solutions currently stifling industry innovation and stalling mass-market adoption."
Conectiva alert: kernel
Paul Starzetz identified a new vulnerability in the linux memory management code that can be used by local attackers to obtain root privileges.
The future is... Linux televisions
Opera board member John Patrick explains why Microsoft's domination of the browser market won't last forever and how Linux will continue to evolve.
MySQL AB to Tweak Open-Source License
MySQL AB's open-source database license has long confused ISVs and others who want to support MySQL but aren't sure whether they need to purchase a license. ... MySQL is open to input.
Learning CVS Using KDE's Cervisia
CVS is a tool to record, manage and distribute different versions of files. In other words, CVS is a version control system. It allows easy collaborative work, as each of the contributors can work in his local copy at the same time, without fear of overriding each other modifications. It allows the recovery of past versions (useful for tracking bugs), the creation of branches (for experimental development or for releases) and more.
Waseda University Employs Latest Linux OS for Campus Notebook PCs
Turbolinux Japan announced February 18 that the Department of Computer Science, Waseda University has installed "Turbolinux 10 Desktop" in 300 notebook PCs the department will use in Java programming courses for the new academic year that begins in April.
Microsoft Takes War on Desktop Linux to Canada Despite Pro-Lindows.com Ruling in United States
Lindows.com, Inc. today announced that the Microsoft Corporation has begun legal proceedings in Canada against Lindows.com, Inc. to prohibit the company from using the marks "Lindows", "Lindows.com", and "LindowsOS.
Microsoft Entourage Engineer Recommends Mozilla Thunderbird for IMAP
Omar Shahine is one of Microsoft's mail guys. In this blog entry, he discuss IMAP support in Entourage (which he and Mike Fullerton and Steve Friesen designed), Outlook and other clients.
Competencies
Linux may be heading toward World Domination, but there still are plenty of incumbent legacies (Exchange) that haven't been dominated. There's only one way to deal with them.
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
An analysis of hacker attacks on online servers in January by UK-based security consultancy mi2g found that Linux servers were the most frequently hit, accounting for 13,654 successful attacks, or 80 percent of the survey total. Windows came in a distant second with 2,005 attacks.
Preview: Open Source in Government Conference
The U.S federal government is looking at open source software in response to the E-Government Act of 2002. This year's Open Source in Government Conference March 15-17 in Washington, D.C., aims to promote the use of Internet and emerging technologies within government agencies as an efficient way to provide citizen-centric government information and services.
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