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PalmSource + MontaVista = Next-Generation Linux-Based Mobile Phones, Sooner

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:00:00 EDT

PalmSource has joined MontaVista's Mobilinux Open Framework partner program and MontaVista has joined PalmSource's Palm Powered Mobile World (PPMW) program. Between them, PalmSource and MontaVista plan to help further accelerate the development of next generation Linux-based mobile phones.

Does the OSDL Want to be a Patent Nanny?

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:00:00 EDT

The consortium wants to be the central repository where software patents and patent pledges are housed for the benefit of the open source community and the industry. When asked if the Commons would make any difference, OSDL general counsel said it would make the open source community 'feel good.'

IBM to Build Linux Around Specific Customers

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:00:00 EDT

IBM said its new Linux approach would address critical business issues faced by both IT and line-of-business decision makers and claimed it make its customers more competitive in an on-demand world. Its formula equates on-demand real-time transformational efficiency with open systems, which of course can mean open standards as well as open source.

VMWare Making Open-Source Noise

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:00:00 EDT

VMware says it expects the Community Source program to yield a richer and broader set of partner solutions that are well integrated with VMware virtual infrastructure products. Its partners can contribute shared code or create binary modules that extend interoperability and integrated virtualization solutions.

LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005: SlickEdit Wins "Best Application Development Tool" Award

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:00:00 EDT

SlickEdit v10 was awarded the 2005 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Product Excellence Award for 'Best Application Development Tool' this week in San Francisco. The award, managed by the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in conjunction with the show's organisers IDG World Expo, was announced at the show by SYS-CON Media West Coast bureau chief Roger Strukhoff (pictured).

LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005: Appro's XtremeBlade Wins "Best Clustering Solution" Award

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:30:00 EDT

Appro International today announced that LinuxWorld Magazine in conjunction with the show's organizers IDG World Expo has named the company's Appro's XtremeBlade Cluster Solution as the winner of the 'Best Clustering Solution' category for the Product Excellence Awards at the LinuxWorld Expo.

LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005: Scalix Wins 'Best Messaging Solution' Award

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:00:00 EDT

'Scalix stands out with its clear market focus and an SMB focus, too,' said LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards judge John H. Terpstra, as Scalix won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for 'Best Messaging Solution' here in San Francisco at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005. SYS-CON.TV interviewed Scalix founder Julie Hanna Farris about the Award and about the company's e-mail solution.

LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005: Oracle Cluster File System Will Be Distributed with the Linux Kernel

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:00:00 EDT

'I expect that Release 2 of the Oracle Cluster File System will be distributed with version 2.6.14 of the public kernel,' said Andrew Morton yesterday as Oracle announced at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco the general availability of OCFS 2 as a free alternative to proprietary systems. It will also be included as a standard component in Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server distributions, Oracle said.

Xandros Wins LinuxWorld Award

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:00:00 EDT

Xandros won a major award here at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo yesterday: Xandros was chosen as the 'Best Desktop/Productivity/Business Application' in LinuxWorld's Product Excellence Awards, managed by the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in close collaboration with IDG World Expo and announced at the show by SYS-CON Media West Coast bureau chief Roger Strukhoff.

ObjectWeb, Prime Mover of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project and JOnAS, at LinuxWorld SF 2005

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:00:00 EDT

Open source middleware proponents ObjectWeb assembled a set of vendors to join the project and agreed to co-lead the Project Management Committee (PMC). WTP was formally launched in June 2004 based on initial contributions from eteration, Lomboz, and IBM Rational Application Developer.

Linux Migration: Alacos Has Double Launch at LinuxWorld Expo 2005

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:00:00 EDT

Alacos, enabler of organizations to transfer settings and application data from Windows desktops to Linux, will announce two new products: Linux Migration Agent Network Server Edition and Thin Client Migration Agent.

Data Protection: Support for Novell, MySQL and Red Hat at LinuxWorld From Arkeia

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:00:00 EDT

At LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco this week, Arkeia is showcasing its data protection solutions supporting Novell SLES9, MySQL v4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Arkeia's Network Backup Solution will be demonstrated in the MySQL and Novell partner booths as the first professional network backup solution fully capable of protecting Linux environments.

World's Fastest InfiniBand Interconnect From PathScale at LinuxWorld 2005

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:00:00 EDT

PathScale has certified a new four-socket systemboard from Supermicro Computer Inc. for use with its PathScaleInfiniPath HTX InfiniBand Adapter. The Supermicro H8QC8/Eand the PathScale InfiniPath interconnect are being displayed in thePathScale booth at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

Levanta Ships Intrepid M, World's First Linux Management Appliance

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:15:00 EDT

'Every time one of our Linux blades had a hard disk crash, it took the better part of a day for one of our admins to get a new one up and running with the proper configuration,' says Arty Ecock, Manager of Enterprise Systems at City University of New York. 'With the Intrepid M disaster recovery for a failed blade is measured in minutes, not hours.'

MKS Continues Cross-Platform Support

Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:00:00 EDT

'Customers deploying performance-intensive applications on 64-bit Intel processor-based systems can experience enhanced scalability, performance and cost reduction with MKS Toolkit,' said Melissa Laird, an Intel general manager.

LinuxNetworx to Hold First User Group Conference

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:15:00 EDT

Linux Networx has announced its first annual Linux Networx User Group Conference, to be held in Snowbird, Utah September 12-14. The event is planned to provide a unique opportunity for existing and potential customers to receive training, listen to testimonials and network with industry peers, receive technology updates from key HPC vendors, and be among the first to hear about new advances in the HPC industry.

"Open-Source Beer" Launched; Creators Hope It May Become "The Linux of Beers"

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:00:00 EDT

An enterprising group of students at the IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark, has launched what it hopes may become 'The Linux of Beers' - it has created an 'open-source' beer by publishing its recipe and brand under a Creative Commons license.

Mozilla Project Founding Member to Keynote at LinuxWorld Expo

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:00:00 EDT

Mike Shaver, founding member, Mozilla project and technology strategist, Mozilla Foundation, will be delivering a keynote address at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco next month titled, 'Flash Point: Reigniting Web Innovation.'

Former SCO Integrated as Part of Sun's Open-Source Strategy

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:00:00 EDT

With the close of the Tarantella acquisition, Sun now owns all assets of a leading provider of software that enables organizations to access and manage information, data and applications across virtually all platforms, networks and devices, according to a company announcement.

Can Hurd Restore HP Through Cost-Cutting? 14,500 Jobs Cut at Hewlett Packard

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:00:00 EDT

He did it while he was CEO of NCR Corp through cost-cutting. Can HP's new CEO Mark Hurd (pictured) now do it again at HP? 14,500 employees may find out today - the hard way. In a move expected to save as much as $1.5BN annually, Hurd is widely expected to announce today major cuts in HP's workforce. He will brief analysts and reporters this morning on details of the plan.

Winer Says Apple Goes Too Far with RSS

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:00:00 EDT

In what may appear to be an abstruse argument to those not intimately involved with spec development, the recent criticism of Apple may appear to be confusing and perhaps irrelevant. But it goes to the heart of the ongoing debates between open-source software (OSS) advocates and the creeping propretitarianism taken by most large technology companies.

Wind River Continues Its Linux Push

Mon, 23 May 2005 09:00:00 EDT

Wind River is expanding its industry-leading Linux solutions to address critical developer needs across all phases of the Linux development cycle.

Embedded Linux: Linux Customization Solutions for Developers Introduced

Sun, 15 May 2005 22:00:00 EDT

A leader in embedded Linux technologies and development tools, TimeSys Corporation, has introduced LinuxDepot and LinuxEngine, new 'Linux Customization' solutions aimed at meeting the precise feature, footprint and hardware requirements of any embedded device.

Linux in India: Mobilis, a "Linux-based Mobile Desktop," Unveiled

Sun, 15 May 2005 15:00:00 EDT

The innovative features of a Linux-based Mobile Desktop called 'Mobilis' have already attracted three major clients viz. ITC (for health and education), Reva Electric Car Company (for its dashboards) and some South African Universities for their students, said the company's CEO yesterday in a launch event sponsored by the Government of India's Ministry of Science & Technology.

Linspire Now on PowerSpec Desktops from Micro Center

Sat, 14 May 2005 11:00:00 EDT

Micro Center is going from today to be offering Linspire pre-installed on a number of PowerSpec desktop computers. The Linspire/Micro Center partnership follows recent market research reports that predict revenues from desktop Linux PCs will grow to $10 billion by 2008.

IBM & Red Hat Combine to Accelerate Linux Mainframe Adoption

Sat, 14 May 2005 04:00:00 EDT

Mainframe customers who are looking to quickly leverage the business and technical benefits of Linux and open source software received a boost today, according to IBM and Red Hat, as they announced zSeries mainframe customers can now order a solution that includes IBM's Integrated Facility for Linux engine and a subscription of Red Hat Linux Enterprise v.4 for zSeries systems. IBM and Red Hat are also extending their co-marketing efforts on Red Hat Linux running on zSeries.

Immunix Acquisition by Novell Reflects Increasing Importance of Linux Security

Fri, 13 May 2005 18:00:00 EDT

Novell has expanded its commitment to enterprise-class security by acquiring Immunix, Inc., a leading provider of host-based application security solutions for Linux. AppArmor, the Linux application security system, will from today be called Novell AppArmor.

Search Wannabe Feedster Deploys Linux

Tue, 10 May 2005 23:00:00 EDT

'If you're not running Linux, it's difficult for an emerging Internet business like ours to get funding,' says Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster. The entrepreneurial search engine and advertising network, based in San Francisco, says it has reduced its operating hardware costs by 60 percent by deploying Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server on AMD 64-bit hardware architecture.

Concerned Over Patent Infringement, Munich Calls Halt to Linux Switch

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

The city of Munich has pulled the plug on what was to have been the biggest Windows to Linux migration – of over 15,000 PCs - over patent concerns.

SCO vs The Rest: AutoZone Asks Court for Delay

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

The SCO Group 'should provide AutoZone with a clear, direct explanation of each of its infringement claims so that AutoZone can frame proper responsive pleadings,' writes AutoZone its first formal response to the action yesterday - a motion to the court to stay the suit until SCO's three other actions (against IBM, Novell and Red Hat) have been heard.

Founder of Gentoo Linux, Daniel Robbins, Resigns as Chief Architect

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Daniel Robbins yesterday resigned from his development responsibilities for Gentoo, including his role as Chief Architect and as manager of release engineering. A non-profit foundation guided by a board of trustees will henceforth control the copyrights of the Gentoo distro's GPL code. [UPDATE: Gentoo Linux 2004.1 has just been released, April 28.]