By Linux News Desk HP says it's going to stop hiding its light under a bushel and advertise the fact that it upgrades its 20-year-old Unix operating system roughly every six months - and has done so for the last three years. It's so taken with the idea that it's even going to start giving the things huma... Oct. 8, 2007 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,336 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk  SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry's vendors, customers, and users, as well as by t... Oct. 7, 2007 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 12,182 |
By Linux News Desk Scalix, a Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging company, has released Scalix 11.2, with new features to support hosted multi-tenant environments, the latest Linux servers, and enhanced Microsoft Outlook facilities for mobile devices. Scalix 11.2 allows application service providers (... Oct. 5, 2007 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,862 |
By Linux News Desk Concurrent's NightStar LX debugging and analysis toolkit is now available for two additional Linux distributions - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and openSUSE 10.2 from Novell. NightStar is an integrated Qt-based GUI tool set for developing and tuning time-critical 32-bit and 64-bit applic... Oct. 3, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,554 |
By Linux News Desk  'Chapter 11 reorganization provides the company with an opportunity to protect its assets during this time while focusing on building our future plans,' said Darl McBride, president and CEO of Lindon, Utah-based SCO Group in a statement accompanying the company's voluntary petition for... Sep. 15, 2007 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,488 |
By Linux News Desk  Author Scott Dunn claims that Microsoft is installing updated software to its Windows operating system even when users have disabled the auto-installation of patches. However 'There is nothing harmful, as far as we can tell, about the files that Microsoft is downloading,' says Brian Li... Sep. 13, 2007 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,059 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk An Illinois man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for participating in an organized online software distribution conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kevin J. O'Connor for the District of Connecticut announced yesterday. Sep. 10, 2007 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 11,578 |
By Linux News Desk Dell reported its fiscal Q2 results Thursday, a week after it confessed that its books were manipulated to meet projections, but Wall Street had to settle for a dry press release. There was no conference call to tease out color and won't be until Dell files its missing financial statem... Sep. 5, 2007 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,553 |
By Linux News Desk Novell has now invoiced a total of $105 million since it cut its controversial deal with Microsoft in November, roughly 44% of the $240 million called for in the five-year pact. They are still 'ramping their relationship in Asia-Pacific,' CEO Ron Hovsepian said. He claimed that there w... Sep. 5, 2007 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 8,111 |
By Linux News Desk  Video-on-demand and audio-on-demand are expected on many airlines nowadays, so it is no surprise that the version of KrisWorld, Singapore Airlines' in-flight entertainment system, that is being installed in the Airbus A380s and Boeing 787 Dreamliners that the company has on order is go... Aug. 27, 2007 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 13,675 |
By Linux News Desk  Dell, the world's second-largest PC maker, said late Thursday that its books were cooked by unidentified 'senior executives' to hit financial targets and that its financial reports for fiscal 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and the first quarter of fiscal 2007 can't be trusted. It's going to ... Aug. 20, 2007 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 11,785 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk  Novell Inc. added 36 cents to $6.78. The software developer owns the copyrights covering the Unix computer operating system and not SCO Group Inc., a judge ruled in a lawsuit over royalties from users of the Linux computer operating system. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dale Kimbal... Aug. 13, 2007 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 13,307 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Dell has Ubuntu and now Lenovo has gone with Novell. The world's third-largest PC maker, at least this week it's number three, IBM's hand-me-down to the Chinese, is going to factory-install SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on some of its ThinkPad notebooks and support the operating sys... Aug. 12, 2007 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,990 |
By Linux News Desk In a statement, IBM and Novell said, 'By entering into the agreement IBM gains access to Novell's SMB market leadership, providing new sales opportunities from Novell's existing customer base. In return, Novell gains a strong global partner, allowing it to tap into IBM's worldwide sale... Aug. 12, 2007 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 11,646 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk  Dell is going to pay its ousted ex-CEO Kevin Rollins, now a senior advisor at private equity house TPG Capital, $48,462,495 cash for his unexercised vested options when it gets around to filing its delinquent 2007 10-K. It's also going to reimburse other unidentified current and former... Aug. 12, 2007 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,298 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Ousted Dell CEO Kevin Rollins has turned up at private equity firm TPG Capital as senior advisor looking at high-tech and consumer investments. TPG currently has a $14 billion fund. It has money in Lenovo, Freescale, SunGard and Seagate. Aug. 8, 2007 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 9,260 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk MySQL says that BlueLithium, described as one of the top five US online advertising networks, is using its database in a mission-critical data warehouse application along with the BrightHouse database engine from Infobright and that MySQL and InfoBright will now offer other customers a... Aug. 6, 2007 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,062 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Fortune caught up with One Laptop Per Child mastermind Nicholas Negroponte at an airport after his détente with Intel last week and he told the magazine, 'We're giving them all our technology.' It seems that the unique technology developed for OLPC's AMD-based XO widgetry like its low-... Aug. 6, 2007 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,809 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk 'Linux has become a very natural fit for telecom network and device manufacturers who are looking for an operating system from which they can easily and cost-effectively build differentiated services and value,' said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. 'There is no ... Aug. 5, 2007 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,335 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Dell is going to add to the slim number of PCs that it's currently willing to put factory-installed Ubuntu Linux on, according to what Canonical CEO Mark Shuttlesworth, inventor of Ubuntu, told Reuters. Without talking real numbers, Shuttlesworth claimed Dell is happy with the Linux sa... Aug. 5, 2007 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 11,701 |
By Linux News Desk Intel has started the Mobile & Internet Linux Project (moblin.org) in support of Intel-based widgetry. It's supposed to be an umbrella operation under which a number of key elements for embedded distributions like Ubuntu's Mobile and Embedded Edition, Pepper Linux and Red Flag's Midinu... Jul. 28, 2007 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,704 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk The Linux Foundation has borrowed Markus Rex from Novell to be its CTO replacing Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian Linux who went off to Sun a few months ago to be its chief operating systems officer reportedly in charge of Linuxizing Solaris to make it more popular and easier to use ... Jul. 27, 2007 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,681 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE Linux AG and Novell, will serve as chief technology officer at the Foundation. Jul. 25, 2007 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,333 |
By Linux News Desk Dell, which is like a year behind in its paperwork, has got until Monday July 16 to produce its missing financial statements to stay in Nasdaq's good graces, but the company says it's going to ask for still another extension promising the numbers 'as soon as possible.' It has been unde... Jul. 16, 2007 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,842 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk 'We applaud all of today's winners and finalists on their achievement in winning our Readers' Choice Award,' said Roger Strukhoff, Editorial Director and Group Publisher of SYS-CON Media. 'Our readers live and breathe the uniquely compelling vision and potential of the Linux OS in part... Jul. 2, 2007 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,557 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk  Linspire developer of the commerical desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the community desktop Linux operating system, and SageTV, a pioneer in personal video recording and home media center technologies that combine television, music and related media into a... Jun. 26, 2007 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 11,753 |
By Linux News Desk  Something like 70% of Solaris deployments are on non-Sun hardware so Sun has taken to offering a new blanket support contract that covers all Sun hardware and software - and optionally other people's x64/x86 hardware too - for a single price. It calls the notion an 'open' support plan.... Jun. 24, 2007 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,019 |
By Linux News Desk  From Jonathan Schwartz's recent blog entry: 'Linus, First, I'm glad you give credit to Sun for the contributions we've made to the open source world, and Linux specifically - we take the commitment seriously. It's why we freed OpenOffice, elements of Gnome, Mozilla, delivered Java, and... Jun. 17, 2007 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 16,063 Replies: 2 |
By Linux News Desk  Microsoft has tapped Tom Hanrahan to run its side of its interoperability efforts with Novell. The appointment comes seven months after Microsoft and Novell signed the now-famous pact that raised FOSS hackles because of the built-in patent claims. Interesting choice Hanrahan considerin... Jun. 16, 2007 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 8,788 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Today's Web service providers must understand Quality of Service, filtering techniques and implement QOS and access list filters on their networks. A proper QOS and filtering design helps to avoid network bottlenecks caused by worm and virus infections, sudden spikes in traffic, broadb... Jun. 12, 2007 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,643 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk 'Companies today are running a mixture of Linux and Windows systems,' said Andreas Typaldos, Chief Executive Officer of Xandros. 'Cross-platform data centers are a reality. To meet evolving customer needs, vendors need to recognize the value of sharing intellectual property, developing... Jun. 9, 2007 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,091 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk 'I'm certain someone will sue somebody else about Linux on patent grounds, but it's less likely to be Microsoft (starting a trench war) and more likely to be a litigant who only holds IP and doesn't actually get involved in the business of software. It will be a small company, possibly... May. 31, 2007 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,454 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Total worldwide server sales were up 4.5% to $12.86 billion, Gartner says. IDC puts it at a seemingly rosier 4.9%, which is actually only $12.4 billion, the best first quarter since 2001, it said. IDC has total units up 4.6%, but says it still down significantly from 1Q06 growth. Gartn... May. 29, 2007 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 15,519 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Dell says it is offering 'hardware options on each system that have the most mature and stable Linux driver support. These hardware options have been thoroughly tested and certified by Canonical. For hardware options not offered with this release, Dell is working with the vendors of th... May. 26, 2007 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 18,064 Replies: 2 |
By Linux News Desk Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, who's sitting on a tidy little stash, says the company has been looking at acquisitions in its core markets. EMC says its Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra and Invista platforms have completed their interoperability qualification with Red Hat Linux. May. 23, 2007 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 11,048 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Ubuntu, Dell's pick for some of its PCs and laptops, is going to try its hand in the mobile and embedded market next and is talking about riding on small handheld Internet-enabled tablets powered by energy-efficient Intel chips, the tiny Silverthorn that Intel has described as being a ... May. 15, 2007 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,612 |
By Linux News Desk  Novell has lost the chief architect of its Linux desktop effort Robert Love to Google and its Open Source Program Office. Many would like to ascribe it to the Microsoft-Novell relationship but Love denied it on Slashdot. It's simply the thrill of working for Google. May. 12, 2007 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,851 |
By Linux News Desk Michael Dell's new laptop, which Dell said last week is suporting Ubuntu, proved an accurate weathervane of the company's intentions. The much-heralded move is meant to scratch the itch of those Linux devotees who wrote in to Dell's IdeaStorm suggestion box asking Dell for a factory-in... May. 10, 2007 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,273 |
By Linux News Desk 'If I thought the state of Fedora were actually improving, I might hang in there. But it isn't,' wrote Eric S. Raymond (pictured) yesterday in an Open Letter with the title 'Goodbye, Fedora' which he cross-posted several places including Red Hat's own fedora-devel-list. He is abandonin... Apr. 30, 2007 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 19,484 |
By Linux News Desk Palm, which has apparently put thoughts of getting acquired out of its head - at least for the moment - says it's going to use Linux underneath at least some of its smartphones starting this year. It's been developing the mojo in-house for a while now and says it won't license it to an... Apr. 25, 2007 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,949 Replies: 1 |
SYS-CON's Linux News Desk gathers stories, analysis, and information from around the Linux world and synthesizes them into an easy to digest format for IT/IS managers and other business decision-makers.
