Linux distributor Red Hat announced plans Tuesday to assemble a package of Java-based open-source tools for building corporate Web applications.
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Last year, when the Walt Disney Co.'s feature animation unit, in Burbank, Calif., announced that it was using Linux for digital animation work, speculation grew that Adobe Systems Inc. would finally port its products to Linux. To this day, however, Adobe has done no such thing. Rather than wait, Disney, along with two other motion picture animation studios (which declined to be named for this article), decided to jointly fund the development of a Windows-to-Linux porting solution. The idea: develop technology using the Wine emulator to run Adobe Photoshop on Linux.
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Novell officials at the 2003 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo on Tuesday hailed their company's commitment to Linux and even criticized The SCO Group for its attempts to extract licensing fees for use of the open source platform.
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Saw over at OSNews:
Sun Microsystems announced a deal to use SuSE's version of Linux on its servers last week, but a Sun executive now says the partnership encompasses desktop computers as well.
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The company says its storage management software now works on IBM mainframes using Linux, and it announces new software tailored to databases running on Linux.
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) plans to use more than 1,450 Dell Inc. servers in a powerful Linux supercomputer that will be used for everything from predicting the demise of the universe to discovering new drugs to keep you alive until that happens.
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The multinational company that sells everything from Dove soap to Ben & Jerry's ice cream plans to move all its servers to Linux in coming years.
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Sun Microsystems signs on to the Open Source Development Lab, becoming the last of the four major server makers to back the group devoted to improving Linux for higher-end servers.
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Computer scientists from think tank SRI will present a novel take on distributed computing at LinuxWorld, all in a search for a little lost penguin.
SRI's Centibots demonstration at LinuxWorld will be a cut-down
demonstration of the real thing-up to 100 robots, working together to map a series of rooms and search out designated objects using Linux and Sun's Jini technology.
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SRI's Centibots demonstration at LinuxWorld will be a cut-down
demonstration of the real thing-up to 100 robots, working together to map a series of rooms and search out designated objects using Linux and Sun's Jini technology.
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The vice chairman and open-source backer offers his two cents on the Ximian deal, Novell's future relationship with Microsoft and the latest SCO skirmish.
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The software maker responds to a new lawsuit by Linux leader Red Hat and reveals steep license prices for businesses that want to use Linux with SCO's blessing.
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A group of leading Linux vendors are teaming together to form a community alliance, promising increased support for enterprise Linux users.
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IBM on Monday rolled out improvements to its WebSphere Business Integration Connect that are intended to help users better integrate and manage a business-to-business trading community made up of partners, suppliers, and users.
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The Linux seller and IBM have obtained a security certification that will make the OS an option for military and government customers, the companies are expected to announce Tuesday.
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The Itanium version of Linux crosses an important threshold: It now can be built from the standard software rather than requiring special patches.
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The server software maker tightens its ties with Hewlett-Packard to promote Linux for businesses and unveils plans for its Java server software.
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Thanks Greg for this one:
DUSSELDORF, Germany -- Linux, once viewed as an OS only computer geeks could appreciate, is today a much more user-friendly software that companies, public administrations, and consumers can master almost as easily as Microsoft's Windows XP. That's the core finding of a study published on Friday by Relevantive, a Berlin-based company specializing in consulting companies on the usability of software and Web services.
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High-end linux clustering comes of age this week with the launch of 32- and 64-bit platforms at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.
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