A buyout of the Linux seller would hurt rival IBM, according to Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz.
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Good thing these confabs aren't in the same town: Penguinistas get down at LinuxWorld in S.F. while the SCO Forum rages in Vegas.
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Big Blue is creating an open-source project around Cloudscape, a niche Java database, CNET News.com has learned.
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OSNews has posted part 2 of their Video Production with Linux series
Computer Associates announces which parts of its Ingres R3 enterprise database will be open-sourced, a move an official says is about "fostering the ability to attract people who'll take the product in a different direction."
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The software maker moves source code to Apache and beefs up tools on its developer collaboration Web portal.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given the green light to a project that will build the largest ever supercomputer based on Silicon Graphics Inc.'s (SGI) 512-processor Altix computers.
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Black Duck pulls in $5 million, which will be used to hire new personnel and bring its ProtexIP service to market.
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The SCO Group Inc. and investment firm BayStar Capital L.P. are apparently unable to agree on whether or not a June stock repurchase agreement between the two companies has closed, and BayStar now intends to file a lawsuit against the Unix vendor, according to statements issued by the two companies on Friday.
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Open-source developers won't have the Geronimo project's Java application server written on time to hit target date.
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Stock-and-cash dispute settlement between Linux foe and its investor held up by unspecified dispute.
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JimF has posted an article on security for the individual and small business
Asian demand for enterprise servers running the Linux operating system, already strong, will get a further boost from the development of Asianux, a version of Linux that has been developed as a standardized distribution for enterprise customers in Asia, according to a top executive at Oracle Corp.
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If you work on large-scale development projects, then you're familiar with the advantages of writing modular code. Well-structured, modular code is easier to write, debug, understand, and reuse. The problem for Java developers is that the functional programming paradigm has long been implemented only via specialized languages such as Haskell, Scheme, Erlang, and Lisp. This article, shows you how to use functional programming constructs such as closures and higher order functions to write well-structured, modular code in the Java language.
Adobe has optimized its new release of Adobe Designer 6.0 and Adobe LiveCycle server software with the WebSphere Studio open standards environment, which embraces ebXML, XML, J2EE, and Web Services. This intergration enables you to build easy, intellegent forms that combine server side business logic using HTTP, J2EE, and Web Services. Go here to learn more about the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform and get your free fully functional evaluation version of Adobe Designer 6.0.
Marketing chief for Sun's Desktop Solutions Group jumps ship to head marketing at MontaVista Software.
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Corporate Linux manager Jim Stallings will now oversee three complex computing initiatives, too.
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DB2 Stinger has once again shattered TPC-C performance records. Running on a 16-way IBM eServer p5 570, DB2 achieved 809,144 tpmC surpassing Oracle and Microsoft results on systems with up to 4 times more CPU's. In fact, this result confirms DB2 as the fastest transaction processing database by delivering the highest per/CPU performance ever recorded by any database on any size system. Here are the results that have made DB2 Stinger the World's Fastest OLTP Database. The beta DB2 Stinger for Linux download can be found here.
