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Thanks Joe. You can get all the Webledon Tennis Championship real-time scores with the IBM Real-Time Scoreboard, a standalone application that pushes point-by-point scoring information to tennis fans. Live scores are delivered directly to the users' desktop scoreboards as the scores change - every point, every match. It's a popular application: Tennis fans downloaded over 4.2 million IBM Real-Time Scoreboards in 2002. The Linux-based DB2 scoring database acts as a staging area that forms a critical link, a central data hub, in the information supply chain. Go here to get your free Scoreboard and find out more about the technical aspects of the Linux based application.

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The biggest threat from SCO's suit against IBM is to users of Big Blue's AIX operating system, not Linux, whose license cannot be revoked just because SCO is doing poorly in the marketplace.

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The computer giant plans to load the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 software on its ProLiant and Itanium systems, as Linux-based servers continue to catch on.

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This article discusses incremental compaction, a new feature in the memory management component of IBM JDK 1.4.0. Incremental compaction is a way of spreading compaction work across different garbage collection cycles, thereby reducing pause times. The authors discuss the need for incremental compaction, the compaction phases at a high level, and some runtime parameters. They also explain how to interpret changes in the verbosegc output.

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Intellectual-property expert Richard Wilder says the liability issues raised by the SCO-Linux lawsuit will force distributors and developers to rethink assumptions about open-source software, intellectual property rights and customer protection.

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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.

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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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