Less than one week after Sun Microsystems Inc.'s chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz pledged to open source its Solaris operating system, The SCO Group Inc. has stated that license restrictions prevent Sun from contributing its work to the GPL (General Public License).
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Linspire has released a desktop linux comparison kit which includes Linspire, Fedora Core 2, and Mandrakelinux 10
A new Linux website is online which features benchmarks
Scalix said this week that the city of Bloomington, Ind., and Pottawattamie County in Iowa have purchased its products.
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The SCO Group filed a memorandum Friday in its lawsuit against IBM that indicates it needs more Unix code from IBM to detail its claims that Big Blue violated a contract between the two companies.
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After months of hinting about its intentions, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to release source code from its Solaris operating system under an open source licence.
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The Amsterdam District Court denies Microsoft's request for an injunction to keep Lindows from selling its products in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, saying that Lindows is not breaking the terms of an earlier settlement.
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BayStar Capital, the firm that arranged a $50 million investment in the SCO Group but then sought to get its money back, has settled its disagreement with a deal to sell its preferred shares to SCO.
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Intel will work with CollabNet to release open-source code designed to make the boot-up process for PCs and servers more predictable and faster.
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Hewlett-Packard is set to announce plans Tuesday to expand its support for open-source software.
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The Eclipse Foundation, an open-source group, has named a former Oracle executive as its first executive director since it gained independence from IBM.
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Sun Microsystems plans to release on Tuesday the second version of its Java Desktop System, the server maker's version of Linux for desktop computers, augmenting the software with new management and programming tools.
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Static analysis tools promise to find existing bugs in your code without requiring much effort on the part of the developer. Of course, if you've been programming for long, you know those promises don't always pan out. Even so, good static analysis tools are a valuable addition to your toolbox. In this first of a two-part series, Senior Software Engineer Chris Grindstaff looks at how FindBugs can help improve the quality of your code and eliminate bugs lying in wait.
Thanks Nadia. Computerwould Australia has published a story on Novell's move from MS Office to OpenOffice.
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Macromedia has added support for Web services protocol SOAP to its Flash Player for Linux.
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The number of servers sold worldwide increased by 27.1 percent in the first quarter of 2004 to 1.57 million units, with a clear move by users towards low-end servers and the Linux operating system, research company Gartner Inc. said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK--Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming staff to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said Wednesday.
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Open Source Development Labs, which promotes adoption of Linux, said Monday it is putting in place a new system to better track and document changes to the operating system's kernel.
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IBM has asked the court presiding over its Linux dispute with the SCO Group to issue a prompt ruling that Big Blue did not infringe on SCO's copyrights.
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