Sun Microsystems launches an ad campaign highlighting IBM's licensing dispute with SCO Group and encouraging its rival's customers to switch to Sun's computing platform.
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Strong growth in enterprise technology subscriptions help lift the Linux seller's earnings into profitability, compared with a loss a year ago.
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MandrakeSoft has released the 2nd Edition of their Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux book:
The Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux" 2nd Edition has been released.
As a follow-up to the successful first edition of "The Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux 9.0", MandrakeSoft announces the immediate availability of a new '2nd Edition' which has been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover the recently released Mandrake Linux 9.1.
The Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux" 2nd Edition has been released.
As a follow-up to the successful first edition of "The Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux 9.0", MandrakeSoft announces the immediate availability of a new '2nd Edition' which has been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover the recently released Mandrake Linux 9.1.
Saw over at OSNews that Linus Torvalds is leaving his job with Transmeta and taking a position with a consortium developing the Linux operating system for corporations.
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SCO Group ups the ante in an amendment to its suit against IBM, seeking more than $3 billion in damages for alleged copying of proprietary Unix intellectual property into Linux.
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SCO CEO Darl McBride explains the motivation behind the company's controversial lawsuit against Big Blue and its implications for the future of open source.
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In the eight years since SCO asserts it acquired these Unix assets from Novell, SCO's record in marketing this property has been dismal, at best. And Novell even disputes the idea that SCO now owns the appropriate rights to back its claims.
Let's look at the past five years. The group's annual revenue grew 64-fold-to $64 million in 2002. Yet, remember that the original SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) recorded $55 million in revenue a quarter, back in 1996.
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Let's look at the past five years. The group's annual revenue grew 64-fold-to $64 million in 2002. Yet, remember that the original SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) recorded $55 million in revenue a quarter, back in 1996.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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OSNews has posted an editorial on SCO
Penquin Computing plans to acquire Scyld Computing, which was founded by a pioneer of "Beowulf" Linux supercomputers.
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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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