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Home on the open source range
If working from home is hard work, then working from home on free software sounds insane. Yet there are a few people who have achieved
Flash for Linux? You Betcha.
San Francisco-based Macromedia today announces the immediate availability of Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux - a new version of Macromedia Flash Player
How Gluecode led Debisys into the wide open spaces
Debisys, a prepaid phone transaction service processor, thought it would be a Windows shop forever. Debisys runs Windows 2000 servers, a SQL Server database, and Windows desktops. "There was a perception that we'd always buy Microsoft software," says MIS Manager Mike Figeuroa. But that is all about to change. "We are doing a complete migration to open source."
Sun Insists Red Hat Linux Is Proprietary
Sun President Jonathan Schwartz explains in detail why Red Hat Linux is proprietary, but others disagree and wonder what Sun is accomplishing with its confusing open source views.
The many faces of open source
NEXT time you chat to a colleague about open source, take a moment to check you are both talking about the same thing: there's a good chance you are not.
First look: Sun Java Desktop System Release 2
Imagine for a moment that Windows XP came with Office XP Professional and Visual Studio .NET preinstalled with it. Imagine it was significantly more secure and easier to use. Imagine that it cost only $50 for all of that software. Sun's new Java Desktop System Release 2 is like the bizarro world equivalent of that kind of Microsoft software package. It's in the same league, except it doesn't use Microsoft technologies. If only it actually worked.
Did you ever have one of those weeks?
This week's little computer-based irritations have reached the overload state for me. I need to vent a little to folks who'll understand the frustrations.
Linux for mission-critical apps
By Cynthia Peterson. Confidence in Linux as a platform to run mission- critical applications is expected to rise in the enterprise market.
Linux developers must 'sign their work'
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, on Monday announced the launch of the Linux Developer's Certificate of Origin (DCO), a new system
Scripting GNU in the 21st Century
Scripting in the GNU environment and parsing HTML in bash.
Linux kernel developers to log their trust
Linus Torvalds trusts that when any of the 25 or so Linux kernel subsystem maintainers collaborating on the operating system send him code, it hasn't been stolen from anyone. Starting today, the approval process will be formalized to document a "chain of trust" to deter intellectual property claims like those leveled by SCO, according to a proposal from Torvalds and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).
Red Hat Turncoat squirts Open Sauce
A FORMER Red Hat employee now in the service of the Titan of Redmond has been openly slagging off open source to anyone that will listen.
Novell Reports Slight Loss
Thanks largely to a preferred stock dividend payment, Novell reported a loss in its last fiscal quarter.
Take LPI certifications at Cebit America
Anyone heading to the Cebit-America show in New York next week may want to check out the on-site Linux certification offerings being put on by the Linux Professional Institute.
Vendor satisfaction survey: Sun Microsystems
ORLANDO, Fla -- The GigaWorld 2004 open source session I planned to attend yesterday at 3 p.m. was canceled at the last minute because the presenter got into a bicycle accident, so I decided to check out a "Vendor satisfaction survey" session instead. The one I happened to jump into focused on Sun, and it could have been subtitled, "I don't want to beat up on Sun, but..."
Open Source isn't Religion—Just Good Business
Opinion: David Coursey talks to MySQL and Red Hat executives, and finds Open Source isn't just for communists after all—there's a real business rationale for letting people have your source code.
Report: IBM tightens hold on databases
IBM tightened its grip on the RDBMS (relational database management system) market just a little more in 2003, largely on the strength of versions of DB2 that run on its iSeries midrange servers and zSeries mainframes, according to a report released by Gartner's Dataquest division on Wednesday.
Ken Brown's corporate-funded FUD
Ken Brown's forthcoming book, published by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, is embarrassingly mistitled Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' Of Open Source Code. No doubt you've heard of it by now, although more than likely you've only heard Andy Tanenbaum and others respond to it more than anything else. It's basically the world's largest troll, seasoned with more than a hint of flamebait. In the history of publishing there has never been a less scrupulous work than this book. It's a stinging insult to real books and genuine authors everywhere, harming the credibility of all of us who write for a living.
Symantec considers using Linux software, CEO says
chief executive John Thompson said Wednesday his company is considering whether to use Linux operating system software to run its desktop computers instead of
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