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64-bit platforms are here. The operating system of choice, Linux, is here. So what does it take to get more widespread adoption of the next generation of processing power? Rob Reilly has a few words of advice for those hardware vendors.

...companies such as Microsoft and Apple argue that they need broader patent protection to prevent open-source companies, which give away their software and make money through service, from effectively expropriating their development costs.

Startup EnterpriseDB unveils an open source-based database that the company claims is comparable, but less expensive, than products from Oracle.

EnterpriseDB CEO Andy Astor saw potential in the PostgreSQL open source database. In fact, this company, which is only one year old, has bet the house on the technology, which has been developed and refined from its infancy at the hands of a few software engineers at Berkeley, Calif., over the course of the past 20 years. Astor's company is releasing a beta version of EnterpriseDB this week. He recently spoke with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, examining the future of the open source database, which he labels the 'unstoppable force' necessary to weaken the behemoths of the industry, including SQL Server and Oracle.

Open Source software has had a major role to play in the growth of Java. Apache and in particular the Jakarta project has been the birth place of several top Java components like Struts, Ant and Tomcat. In this interview, we speak to Henri Yandell, the current chair of the Jakarta project.

If you want to set up a Linux-based firewall, there's no need to run a bloated distribution that installs everything but the kitchen sink. If you are not afraid to get your hands dirty, and like having total control over your system, then Sentry Firewall CD (SFCD) is just what you need. It is a highly configurable, bootable CD that takes a minimalist approach to firewalling.

Martin Taylor, Microsoft Corp’s general manager for its platform strategy, and considered one of the software giant’s utmost authorities in its battle with Linux and the open source movement, was in town recently.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the premier Linux certification organization, worldwide, announced today that it will hold an Item Writing Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22, 2005.

Danny Sabbah is a 30-year veteran of the company and an architect of its open-source policy, as well as overseer of its mainstream WebSphere middleware.

Hope of Linux tackling the desktop market has suffered a reality check with the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College dumping the penguin in favor of Unix cousin Mac OS X, not x86-based rival, Windows.

The latest Apache Foundation project to create an open source implementation of the Java 2 Standard Edition has not exactly received blessing from Sun Microsystems. They are expressing "serious doubts" about the usefulness of the project, and have said that they do not understand why the open source consortium was undertaking the project.

The Open Source Development Labs has cut a sixth of its staff as part of a re-organisation, but senior programmer Linus Torvalds is not among those culled.

As reported Friday, Winston Damarillo, founder of Gluecode, has launched a new investment company backed by Redpoint Ventures and Mission Ventures. The new company is targeted at commercializing open source software projects.

Concerns that OpenOffice will be trapped into using Sun's proprietary implementation of Java have lead the Free Software Foundation to improve its own version

Businesses certainly profit by using high-quality software that is freely available, and unencumbered by restrictive licensing, so they must keep an eye towards its sustainability. That might mean an occasional donation of equipment, funds, employees' time and know-how, whatever it is you have to offer.

While setting up an installation of phpldapadmin I tried to do it in a secure way. In this document I will try to explain how to setup Linux+Apache+PHP to create an secure base for installing phpldapadmin or another PHP based application. This document won't tell you how to write a secure PHP application, it will only describe how to setup apache and php in a secure manner without touching the PHP applications. A secure PHP application requires a properly configured PHP and apache installation on a tightly secured operating system. [Link is a PDF file]

IBM has reportedly stated that it has consulted with more than 500 companies who currently use Unix in their enterprise IT strategy about how to migrate to a Lintel platform that integrates Red Hat Linux with Intel-based IBM systems. The consultations presumably target major Unix vendors HP and Sun Microsystems.

The new XML-based standard offers a vendor-neutral format for documents, spreadsheets, databases and presentations.

We have talked many times before on Open Sourcery about the pros and cons of the commercialization of Linux. This has included building a service and support system similar to open source's proprietary cousins (that the business world is used to), introducing benchmark ratings (already a growing movement) and methods for validating code to protect against both legitimate and rancorous legal action.

Oracle Corp. gained ground in the worldwide relational database market last year to draw roughly level with IBM, thanks in part to Oracle's strong performance in the fast-growing Linux segment, according to new figures from Gartner Inc.