Linux News Desk

"Novell is back!" declared CEO Jack Messman as he opened his company's 20th annual techfest, BrainShare, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, yesterday. He was joined as part of the opening keynote by Linus Torvalds, who in a question and answer session showed himself to be as concerned as ever with the possible conflict between patents and progress, saying: "Software patents, where nontechnical issues can be used to stop development, stop people from doing what they want to do and can do - that, to me, is the biggest threat."  It was precisely his decisi... (more)

A Linux Scalp Falls to Microsoft - ex-SUSE Exec Karl Aigner

Karl Aigner, a project manager for SUSE at the time - nearly a year ago - when the city of Munich, Germany's third largest city, decided to equip all of the 14,000 computers in its public administration with Linux instead of Windows NT 4.0 and Office, left SUSE in January...and has since turned up at Microsoft. It was SUSE and IBM together who worked closely with city government official... (more)

SYS-CON White Paper: Improving Software Development Success with ActivePerl

It is easy to sympathize with software developers trying to build large, complex enterprise software solutions. At the start, a software development project is like a smooth sheet of ice: full of possibility. It's a clean slate, free from architectural flaws, bugs, and broken code. But once the first line of code is written, complexities begin to layer one on top of the other. No matter ... (more)

Microsoft Files for XML Patents

Specifically, Microsoft has applied for a patent to cover a word-processing document stored in a single XML file. "The present invention," it says in its Summary,  "is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an application that understands XML, or to enable another application or service to create a rich document in XML so tha... (more)