BANGALORE, INDIA - Political and economic factors will drive Linux and open source software adoption in developing countries, claimed a Linux International executive.
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SCO is continuing to press its unfounded vendetta against open source software to Congress. Repeating the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt that the company has spread through past letters and lawsuits, SCO executives are telling Congress that open source software in general, and specifically, the General Public License (GPL), which protects most open source software is a threat to the U.S. information technology industry; a threat to U.S.' competitive position; and a threat to national security. All of these assertions are false.
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"He's everywhere! He's everywhere!" Like Chicken Man, Bruce Perens seems to turn up wherever Linux, and especially desktop Linux, is being discussed. At LinuxWorld in New York, Perens spent more than 30 minutes telling a small room full of about two dozen members of the press what he thought was happening in the Linux world.
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NEW YORK -- Novell used LinuxWorld Expo here to deepen its commitment to Linux and open source development by unveiling a handful of products and announcing it has joined the Eclipse consortium.
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NEW YORK - Amazon.com Inc. has two businesses: The one it runs in November and December during the height of the holiday shopping rush, and the one it runs the rest of the year. Building a cost-effective IT infrastructure that can scale to handle the year-end crush while remaining inexpensive during slower months is one of the obstacles Amazon.com's IT staff grapples with, Vice President of Infrastructure Tom Killalea said Tuesday in a presentation at LinuxWorld.
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The chipmaker will likely take a two-phase approach to providing software that Linux needs to take advantage of the Centrino chips.
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The company says it garnered $75 million in revenue in 2003 with a program that encourages customers of rival Sun Microsystems to move to HP servers that run Linux.
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Big Blue puts more weight behind its effort to attract customers to Linux that runs on its own Power processors, an initiative that distinguishes IBM from its competitors in the server market.
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LinuxWorld Conference and Expo began this morning at the Javits Center in New York City with a keynote address by Jack Messman, chairman of the board and CEO of Novell. Novell, Messman noted, is a billion-dollar company that's wagering its future on open source, with the acquisitions in the past year of Ximian and SuSE.
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MySQL AB has developed the first graphical administration tool for its open source database, the company plans to announce at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York on Wednesday.
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Open-source software maker Lycoris on Tuesday said it has selected a set of 40 fonts from software maker Bitstream for its Linux office suite, ProductivityPak.
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The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo gets under way in New York this week, with Novell in the spotlight as the new kid on the Linux block. There's much at stake in the open-source community, as SCO's lawsuits threaten to undercut the operating system's momentum.
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Novell plans to announce Wednesday that SuSE Linux, the version of the open-source operating system it acquired earlier this month, has passed a new level of security certification.
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The company plans to expand its Linux software portfolio substantially over the coming year, including a version of its Java server software suite.
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The Linux adversary escalates its dispute with Novell over ownership of the Unix operating system.
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DeveloperWorks Linux is now offering developers a new software evaluation kit on DVD which allows users to build applications and Web services and deploy them on IBM middleware for Linux. The free two-CD kit, which requires a DeveloperWorks registration, contains trials of Big Blue's newest products, tools, and information resources.
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Archrivals IBM and Microsoft will formally roll out software and technical support programs at the LinuxWorld Exposition this week in hopes of luring corporate and third-party developers either toward or away from Linux environments, respectively.
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The Linux nation gathers once again this week in New York for LinuxWorld Expo with companies both large and small unwrapping products and strategies spanning the breadth of the computing industry, but with a steady focus on establishing a loftier presence in the enterprise.
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New partnerships with server makers Dell and Egenera will be among the displays of Novell's newly bought Linux status at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo beginning Wednesday.
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