Sun ponders offering open-source Solaris

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Sun Microsystems is pondering whether or not to offer Solaris code in an open-source format to boost deployment of the operating system on Intel hardware, but questions remain about the effectiveness of open source, a Sun official said this week.

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More Linux desktops on the way

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Entering a market that has attracted the likes of Sun Microsystems and raised an alarm at Microsoft, Penguin Computing announced Thursday a new desktop PC for businesses that runs on the open-source Linux operating system.

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Linux role in enterprise debated at forum

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EVEN corporate users who don't want anything to do with open source can find at least one use for operating systems juggernaut Linux.

"Get a little Linux in your shop," Jonathan Eunice, president of research firm Illuminata, advised the most skeptical among the attendees here at this week's Enterprise Linux Forum. "It never hurts to let your suppliers know you have alternatives. Linux is a great thing to have for vendor management."

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Linux and .Net to trounce Unix

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The future is anything but bright for proprietary Unix operating systems. According to a new report, flavors of Unix from the main vendors--hardware heavyweights HP, IBM and Sun--will lose out to Linux, and even Microsoft's emerging .Net.

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IBM puts Power behind Linux

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IBM will start shipping a special version of its p630 server next week that runs Linux on IBM's Power4 RISC processors. This marks the first time that IBM has sold Linux on a Power-based server alongside servers that traditionally runs its AIX version of Unix.

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Open-source clan in spat with Sun

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A leading OpenBSD programmer has accused Sun Microsystems of hindering development of the open-source software for its newer computers, causing Sun to scramble to cooperate with the project in response.

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UnitedLinux Group Plans Tuesday Surprise

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SuSE Linux, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International), Conectiva and Turbolinux are all expected to launch on Tuesday the latest versions of their Linux enterprise distributions powered by the UnitedLinux core, according to industry sources late Thursday.

This will be the first time the four Linux distributions are based on the UnitedLinux core, and follows the May announcement by the vendors that they would standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise. The move, they said, should streamline Linux development and certification

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HP stresses Linux backing

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Infoworld has posted two Linux related news stories from the OracleWorld

HP stresses Linux backing
Not to be outdone by other major vendors that have hopped on the Linux bandwagon such as Oracle, IBM, and Sun Microsystems, a Hewlett-Packard official during the OracleWorld show on Thursday stressed that HP has been backing the open-source platform.
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Is commercial Unix odd man out?
Two Oracle officials at the OracleWorld conference here on Wednesday, Jamshed Patel, senior manager in the Oracle Linux Program Office, and Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database and application server technologies, acknowledged the intentions of the company to run its entire business on Linux.
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Metrowerks Set To Acquire Lineo

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eWeek send words that Embedded systems software development tools vendor Metrowerks Inc. is about to acquire Lineo, an embedded Linux company

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