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Your article describes a very different speech from the one I gave, one that emphasizes primarily how patents would hurt free software.

By RICHARD WOOD. Dick Smith Electronics is the first retailer to join a Linux certification scheme launched by New Zealand's Open Source Society.

High Five for OSDL

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is a highly popular, server-side scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML coding.

News reports now say that maybe the Mexican pilots just saw ball lightning and not some manifestation of otherworldly intelligence. At least for now, we might have to rely on the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution for that.

Intel will work with CollabNet to release open-source code designed to make the boot-up process for PCs and servers more predictable and faster.

Writing a Trace System

Sun is highlighting the lower price for Solaris compared with Red Hat, whose popular version of Linux is resold by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others.

Open source adoption within companies has occurred in a series of waves, each moving free software successively closer to the heart of the enterprise. First, there was Apache, whose rise is documented vividly in the Netcraft server survey. After the Web server, open source began to find favour for file serving, typically using GNU/Linux and Samba. GNU/Linux was also used to run proprietary databases like Oracle and DB2, but more recently open source databases like MySQL have proved increasingly popular with companies.

Mozilla Goodies

We selected MySQL because we were small, it was free, and because it was well integrated with PHP, our language of choice.”.

The best way to mess up a migration to Linux is to keep users in the dark and replace their systems while they are not watching, says Novell's James Thomas.

There's been a lot of chatter about Mono, recently, varying from "its a killer dev platform!" all the way to, "the patent issues are going to destroy us all!" And yet, in all this chatter, there has been relatively little chatter about DotGNU or Portable.NET. Well, you know what they say: learning is FUNdamental...

Wilder Wildcards

As networks become ever more complex, it's important to build networking infrastructure with scalability and reliability in mind. Best practices allow for networks to respond quickly to the demands of real-time business requirements with the least amount of manual intervention.

Many of you have expressed both to me and in public forums the desire to get your hands on SuSE Linux in anticipation of the release of Open Enterprise Server later this year. SuSE Enterprise Server 8 and Novell Nterprise Linux Services 1.0 will form the basis of that release (or, at least, newer versions of those two products will).

Top among the product announcements Sun is making are the next releases of its Java Enterprise System and Java Desktop System.

What I Did with My Hiatus

By STEVE LOHR. ewlett-Packard plans to announce tomorrow that it will support two open source software companies, MySQL and JBoss.

LiveCDs -- distributions that allow you to boot a Linux system without installing software on a PC's hard drive -- are popping up faster than Windows security alerts. Riding on the phenomenal success and popularity of Knoppix, LiveCDs for specialized use are available for everything from MythTV to MAME. No, not Auntie Mame, MAME as in Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, which lets you do important things like play Donkey Kong. Believe it or not, there are several LiveCDs focused on the MAME-niche itch. Here's a look at the arcade/system emulator movement and two LiveCDs designed to put you in touch with your inner Donkey Kong: KnoppixMAME and AdvanceCD. I'm happy with game play under both. I only wish I knew more about the legality of using them.