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eWeek: Sun Sees Opportunity in IBM-SCO Showdown

General 8068 Published 2003-06-14 15:06 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Sun Microsystems Inc. is wasting no time prepping to take advantage of any potential customer fallout from the looming battle between the SCO Group and IBM over Big Blue's license for AIX, its Unix operating system.

SCO has said it will revoke IBM's license to ship AIX as it claims Big Blue has violated the terms and conditions of that license by giving its customers unauthorized access to Unix source code and for "giving away" parts of the code to the open-source community and Linux.

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Transmeta pushes Linux gadgets in China

General 8068 Published 2003-06-14 15:02 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The chipmaker signs on computer maker Chinese 2000 Holdings to develop and market low-cost Linux-based devices such as notebooks, PCs and set-top boxes.

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High noon looms in SCO fight

General 8068 Published 2003-06-13 13:48 by Philipp Esselbach 0

SCO Group contends that IBM has violated terms of its Unix contract and says it could seek an injunction against Big Blue as soon as Monday. But some question whether SCO opened the Unix code by shipping potentially tainted Linux products.

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SCO could act Monday in IBM Unix case

General 8068 Published 2003-06-13 09:11 by Philipp Esselbach 0

SCO Group's next move in its legal battle with IBM will probably come Monday, SCO says, possibly in the form of a request that a judge halt Big Blue's Unix sales.

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Who really owns Unix?

General 8068 Published 2003-06-12 14:53 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group, explains that his organization owns the Unix trademark and that the SCO Group holds the rights only to the OS source code.

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Did SCO open Unix source code?

General 8068 Published 2003-06-12 09:22 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Several groups argue that SCO Group's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the OS's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.

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SCO shows Linux code to analysts

General 8068 Published 2003-06-11 23:43 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Last week, the company began showing code to U.S. analysts that, it claims, proves that the source code to the Linux operating system contains sections of code lifted directly from SCO's Unix code base.

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SuSE to sign Sun, HP to desktop deals

General 8068 Published 2003-06-11 23:42 by Philipp Esselbach 0

SuSE advances its Linux desktop fortunes

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Unix's courtroom adventures continue

General 8068 Published 2003-06-11 23:42 by Philipp Esselbach 0

As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the operating system, another dispute has been quietly simmering over the rights to the Unix name itself.

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The SCO Threat: A professional Linux Users Perspective

General 8068 Published 2003-06-10 18:52 by Philipp Esselbach 0

OSNews has posted an editorial on SCO

Two Linux server specialists combine

General 8068 Published 2003-06-10 15:32 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Penquin Computing plans to acquire Scyld Computing, which was founded by a pioneer of "Beowulf" Linux supercomputers.

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Debian: X broken in unstable (GCC 3.3 fun)

General 8068 Published 2003-06-08 19:34 by Philipp Esselbach 0

If you are tracking unstable, you might want to postpone the upgrade of X packages. Version 4.2.1-7 breaks XDM, KDM and startx in due to some problems with GCC 3.3 compiling code related to X authorization cookies.

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Merrill Lynch: Linux saves money

General 8068 Published 2003-06-08 11:21 by Philipp Esselbach 0

An executive at the investment banker says research shows that deploying Linux internally that could save the company millions of dollars.

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Lawsuit wont stop Linux, Oracle exec says

General 8068 Published 2003-06-07 13:45 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Company remains committed to open source platform

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Amended contract gives SCO Unix rights

General 8068 Published 2003-06-06 10:59 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Intel: Linux good for 32-chip server

General 8068 Published 2003-06-06 10:59 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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 releases free Q2 Linux Middleware CD Set

General 8068 Published 2003-06-06 10:54 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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.