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Recently, SCO subpoenaed Linux founder Linus Torvalds and Stuart Cohen, the chief executive of Torvalds' employer, the Open Source Development Labs. OSDL then announced that it would pay its law firm to represent Torvalds.

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The history of how storage and retrieval systems have evolved -- from flat file databases to object-oriented database management systems -- is important for designers of object-oriented wireless systems, especially when development funds are tight. Knowing how various models on the evolutionary path store and retrieve complex data can keep developers from trudging into a dead end, thereby increasing their design productivity relative to costs. This article highlights the evolving storage/retrieval systems and presents a conceptual tour through a hierarchical structure of database objects, illuminating the basics of the wireless model and predicting the coming object-oriented attractions.

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SuSE will release next month a CD with CrossOver Office 2.1, CrossOver Plugin 2.1, and WineX 3.1 for SuSE Linux 9.0

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In view of the latest SCO lawsuit news conference, we have been talking to BSD professionals to get their opinions, including one of the principals in the AT&T vs. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. lawsuit settlement of 1994; a disillusioned former SCO employee; and several other BSD developers.

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LAS VEGAS - Sun Microsystems Inc. is hatching a plan to offer versions of its application server and Web server under an open source license, Jonathan Schwartz, the company's executive vice president for software, said in an interview Wednesday.

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LAS VEGAS -- The SCO Group Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer, Darl McBride, enlisted the help of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to bolster his arguments against the open source GPL (GNU General Public License) and Linux during a keynote address at the CD Expo conference here in Las Vegas.

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Executives shift at the open-source database vendor and software seller Marimba...eBay's founder joins Meetup board...Start-up teams with Edge Wireless for an all-in-one device.

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DB2 Universal Database Express Edition is a new specially tailored full feature relational database for small and medium business. DB2 UDB Express Edition features autonomic management capabilities for self-administration, self-tuning and self-healing into the database which increases reliability while reducing complexity and required skills. The Configuration Advisor provides facilities to configure the DB2 UDB Express Edition environment to optimize performance and the Health Center monitors your DB2 system, alerting you to potential DB2 operational issues, and provides advice about resolving them. Go here to get the Linux DB2 v8.1 Express CD sent to you for free.

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The Linux antagonist vows to widen its legal battle against the open-source operating system, saying it intends to sue large-scale Linux users for copyright infringement.

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Officially, the "news" teleconference SCO held this morning was to announce a new deal between SCO and the David Boies legal firm. Confusion reigned as SCO attempted to clarify the details of its payments to its legal counsel, Boies Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Is the $1 million payment to Boies et al, and the transfer of 400,000 shares of SCO stock to them a contingency payment? If so, what contingency was met? Is it a legal slush fund to finance new rounds of lawsuits to keep the circus alive a little longer? Who knows? I, for one, don't care how SCO pays its counsel. But I do care about something new that came out of the teleconference.

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LAS VEGAS -- Novell Inc.'s $210 million planned acquisition of SuSE Linux AG will put it in violation of a non-compete agreement the networking vendor has with The SCO Group Inc., and could possibly lead to legal action, SCO CEO Darl McBride said Monday in an interview.

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The Mono project is expected to reveal a new roadmap for completion of the project today. The Mono project, created and led by Miguel de Icaza, and funded by Ximian, has a goal of creating an open source version of Microsoft's .Net development platform for Unix and Linux. The new roadmap lets both Mono developers and users around the world know when certain pieces are scheduled to be completed.

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