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The SCO Group's controversial Linux-related lawsuit against IBM does not go to trial for another year, but the Utah company's litigation already has corporate software buyers worried. Information technology professionals identify indemnification of "open source" products, such as the freely distributed Linux operating system, as a primary and growing concern, according to a new survey of 200 United States-based IT professionals.

There are compelling reasons for Windows users to switch to (or at least evaluate) Linux, but when you know no other world than Windows or don’t want to even think about partitioning your precious hard drive, it can be one heck of a leap of faith! As a Windows user wanting to try Linux but scared of losing the world as I knew it, I found a risk-free method of trying Linux without threatening the installation of Windows safely installed on my PC. Mandriva Move and Knoppix are two different flavours of Linux that reside entirely on a bootable LiveCD.

African open source advocates will be putting their best foot forward next week when they showcase many of their open source education solutions at the World Conference on Computers in Education. WCCE, which is held every four years, will be held in Stellenbosch from 4 to 7 July.

Measuring return on investment is always a tricky prospect. Properly assessing a software's future value and savings versus it's roll-out cost requires more than a peripheral knowledge of the software involved. This guide attempts to enable the reader to ask the right questions.

Project Harmony is seeking code donations from commercial vendors of Java Virtual Machines to kick-start the development of its new open source Java project. "There is a lot of software out there that we are hoping can be donated. We are hoping that we will get seeded with some code from exiting production Virtual Machines," Geir Magnusson, director of the Apache Software Foundation, said at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

Commercial Linux developer Red Hat has reported Q1 revenue up 46%, following strong sales in both public and private sectors.

Linux Centre from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro organises conference on localisation of free software. The Conference will bring together the free software activists working in the Balkans to discuss about localisation/translation issues and to unite their efforts in these spheres.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pulling back plans to market and sell its Linux-based desktop operating system and is considering giving the technology to the open-source community, the company quietly acknowledged at JavaOne this week.

Are the software giant's recent attempts to reach out to the open source community genuine or just another example of its embrace, extend and extinguish strategy?

Oracle Corp. made significant strides in the Java and open source communities at JavaOne this week, taking a leadership role for a key Java specification and announcing that it will spearhead several projects to further the Eclipse open source development effort.

The Linux supplier attributes record billings to growing global demand for open-source software.

Low cost and reliability have made Linux the right server operating system choice for thousands of SMBs. Choosing the right flavor of Linux, however, can be daunting.

Trustix answers high Linux TCO concerns by pointing to superior patching capabilities of SWUP automated update mechanism.

Open-source spam filter ASSP has been upgraded with a much improved administration interface, Sender Policy Framework (SPF) support, SMTP session limits, IP connection limits and a much better statistics page for reporting on mail traffic. ASSP is a Perl program...

A judge rules that Novell can't use a motion to dismiss to get the court to assess and support its ownership claims on Unix copyrights.

BEA announced that its next J2EE development platform will support "all major open source frameworks," including Apache Beehive and the Spring Framework. He even demonstrated how an application could be migrated from Apache Tomcat to BEA's WebLogic Server.

Most of the time, an abundance of choice is a good thing. Who could argue against 31 flavors of ice cream or 57 varieties of condiments? But when it comes to open-source software licenses, less might be more.

But with Windows or Linux? Sharing the stage at a panel at this year's World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the two men seemed like old friends. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Microsoft's cofounder Bill Gates smiled at each other and cordially agreed on a number of issues. But as they departed from the meeting, the truth was that on the subject of software the two are at opposite extremes.

SCO’s Unix/Linux slander lawsuit against Novell is to enter the discovery stage, after Novell failed to convince a US court to throw out the case. The case is key for SCO as part of its attempt to convince the courts that it alone owns the source code for Unix. If successful, the company will be better placed to claim its code has been illegally used to build open source Linux solutions.

New Program Extends Cross-Platform Optimization and Support to ISV's Migrating Applications to 64-bit Platforms