A 1996 amendment to the contract under which Novell sold many of its Unix assets appears to give SCO at least some of the Unix copyrights that could bolster its potential legal claims.
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The chipmaker's lab tests show that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young OS.
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IBM has helped thousands of developers move their applications to Linux through its Linux Speed-start program. It has everything you need to start the move to the Linux platform, including the new and free Q2 release of IBM's Linux middleware CD Set(DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server, DB2 Migration Toolkit, WebSphere Application Server , WebSphere Studio Site Developer, WebSphere SDK for Web Services, WebSphere MQ - formaly MQ series messaging, IBM Directory Server - LDAP Infrastructure, Lotus Domino, Tivoli Access Manager , Whitepapers, tutorials, and reusable code.) They also offer free Linux workshops to help Linux beginners and will help you market your Linux ported apps.
SCO had taken the entire site offline May 30 in response to a judge's temporary restraining order resulting from accusations that SCO's actions regarding the Linux operating system were unfair competition.
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A 1995 contract obtained by CNET News.com shows SCO Group receiving broad rights to the Unix operating system but Novell retaining copyrights and patents.
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MySQL announced Tuesday that it raised $19.5 million in a second round of funding led by Benchmark Capital. Index Ventures also contributed to the round.
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The company that has warned major companies that using Linux could get them in legal trouble shuts down its German Web site after a Linux advocacy group obtains a restraining order.
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The amount of biological data being created today is mind-boggling. As a biologist or bioinformaticist, you probably know of places around the network that provide very useful resources for your task at hand -- but remembering the different ways to access this information is often a productivity drain. This article takes you through a step-by-step approach to building a Java-based Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) authority from scratch. It demonstrate how to build this on a minimal data set and on data downloaded from the protein sequence database Swiss-Prot, all on the Linux platform.
Big Blue launches a Linux PC in India--but unlike the Linux notebook unveiled by Hewlett-Packard in Thailand last month, it's no low-priced machine for the masses.
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Analyst firm Gartner tells customers to minimize use of Linux on vital systems because of questions resulting from SCO Group's warnings about legal liability.
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CNET News has posted a news story on Ximian Desktop
SCO has responded to Novell's demands to prove that its Unix code was copied into Linux by offering to show the 'evidence' behind its case.
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Hewlett Packard (HP) and Intel recently partnered with open source provider Sendmail to launch Workforce Mail running on Linux, while IBM Lotus has brought out Lotus Workplace Messaging.
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Saw over at OSNews that Gnome 2.4 for Mac OS X is underway
Another news story on SCO
SCO Group executives say the company's copyright dispute with Novell doesn't affect its legal campaign against Linux, but that they'll probably sue Novell, anyway.
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Executives of SCO Group on Friday plan to address questions about the company's Unix ownership, the foundation of its legal campaign against Linux and those who use that software.
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SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride says a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds is overstated.
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Linux founder Linus Torvalds says he agrees with some criticisms of SCO but calls for restraint in the tumult. SCO's chief, meanwhile, says legal action against Torvalds is unlikely.
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Novell on Wednesday said it never transferred the copyrights and patents of Unix System V when it sold the software to SCO in 1995. SCO claims all Unix flavors in use today are based on Unix System V, and that it owns the software code and licensing rights to that software.
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