Enterprise-level business applications need rigorous security regulations with varying roles; each role also requires its own set of access control lists. This article explains how you can use Struts, taglibs, and servlet filters to develop a powerful and flexible security model that can be used directly by almost any Web-based application.
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The Linux specialist formerly known as Lindows announces that it has completed its name change to Linspire.
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With its cash reserves dwindling and losses continuing to mount, The SCO Group Inc. is taking measures to cut its expenses and ensure it will have enough cash to process its lawsuit with IBM Corp, the company announced during its quarterly earnings conference call Tuesday. SCO reported a loss of $7.4 million on revenue of $11.2 million for the third quarter - a loss that was affected by the $7.2 million in legal expenses the company incurred during the quarter, which ended July 31.
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Company will compensate its sales staff for selling non-Sun machines, as part of its effort to boost Solaris on x86 hardware.
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Novell official sends out memo to employees saying company must now focus on two core businesses: open source and identity management.
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Survey from The Yankee Group shows cautious corporate interest in moving desktop and server systems to Linux.
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High-availability solutions for Linux clusters are now available from several Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and span a range of capability and complexity. HA clusters are expected to become common in the near future. It should no doubt become important as Linux clusters become mainstream. This whitepaper covers clustering solutions using IBM hardware, standard Linux distributions and Open Source software.
KDE developers are crafting a search engine for the desktop, but don't look for it just yet.
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Hexus.net has published the final chapter of Jo Shields' guide to Free and Open Source Software. Part 3 contains some of the tweaks and more advanced tasks that you might want to perform under the Linux Operating System.
DesktopLinux.com has posted an article about building a free enterprise desktop
The manual is intended to increase open-source usage among the 800 IT projects sponsored by the United Nations.
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linuX-gamers.net have written a short article summarizing some key new features in the upcoming XOrg X11 server release.
Linux users in German-speaking countries and the U.K. will have an opportunity to buy keyboards specially designed for the open source operating system in late September, when Cherry GmbH launches what the company claims is the world's first Linux keyboard.
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IDC projects that Linux will run on 25 million desktops by the year 2007. The driving force of this expansion will be applications and products that are enabled to run on the Linux operating system. Eclipse, an open source platform for development tools, makes it easier to deliver applications and solutions on Linux, and the newly released Eclipse developement package, available at no charge, makes it even easier. It consists of the latest open source Eclipse SDK (v3.0) from Eclipse.org, plus the latest IBM Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Linux. With the addition of the IBM JRE to the package, developers can now develop, test, and deploy their Java applications with IBM's runtime environment.
Red Flag Software Co., the company behind China's leading Linux client distribution, plans to focus more on its server operating system and enterprise customers, the company's acting president said.
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IBM on Thursday will announce the release of a free tools bundle for Eclipse to make it easier to deploy Java applications on Linux.
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Lindows, the Linux-based software developer best known for its legal battles with Microsoft Corp., has indefinitely shelved its plans to become a publicly traded company due to "current adverse market conditions," it announced Wednesday.
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