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Sun Microsystems flung open the doors to its code with an extension of its open sourcing initiatives. Monday's announcements here at JavaOne, Sun's annual developer conference, included the open-sourcing of its application server and enterprise Java technologies, along with the introduction of a new spec for business integration. Executives promised still more code to come.

The lawsuit covers x86 microprocessors, used to run PC operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Linux systems. AMD said its lawsuit alleges that Intel has coerced customers away from dealing with AMD, and was based on evidence obtained from 38 companies.

Java Desktop System will continue to exist, but expect to see "less of an emphasis" on it, company's top software exec says.

One of China's largest telecommunications equipment companies has used Linux and Qtopia Phone Edition to build a dual-band GSM mobile phone with a 1.3MP camera and unique pivoting color touchscreen. ZTE's e3 has strong multimedia and video capabilities, along with a full web browser and Chinese-English translation software.

Sun will publish its Java System Application Server under a form of open source licence, company president Jonathan Schwartz announced this week. However, the move has received no positive reaction from technology and financial observers who remain unconvinced that Sun is serious about open source.

In a move that reflects the growing popularity of the open source platforms, BEA Systems is adding support for the Spring Framework for developing Java-based Web applications, and the open source Web application framework, Apache Struts.

Medsphere CEO brings knowledge of Open Source Technologies to SugarCRM, Customer Relationship Management solutions

Welcome to our issue number 2 of Fedora Weekly News.

People want to know what, exactly, can they get away with. To answer this, it's important to understand how violations of the GPL appear on the enforcement radar screen, so here is how: Somebody rats on you, usually your competitors or disgruntled employees.

Nokia's challenge? Sell more mobile phones. To do that, it needed to beat the competition on features. And to do that, it turned to open source. Hold on, you may be saying, that doesn't sound right. Open source is good for many things, but sustainable competitive advantage isn't one of them. Anything you implement using open source today your competitors can implement tomorrow. That's true, but it isn't the whole picture.

A simple review, geared towards the new Linux user. Explore PCLinuxOs a great Distro, that is stable, powerful, secure, and user friendly.

Over 150 scientists, developers, and engineers convened from all around the globe for the May 2005 meeting of the Gelato Federation, an international organization dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium processor.

Sun had been trying to seal a new alliance with I.B.M. for the last year, and executives at both companies said Monday that pressure from large customers had been a central factor in forcing the renewed alliance. [An understatement from Jonathan Schwartz]: "To be honest, we've had a little bit of a chill in our I.B.M. relationship ..." Story also cites AMD new chips and software: Java plus WebSphere.

Alfresco is the first open source enterprise-scale content management system that includes a modern content repository, an out-of-the-box portal framework for managing and using content designed to work with standard portals, and a groundbreaking Common Internet File System (CIFS) interface that provides Microsoft Windows file system compatibility.

Msn.com updated to filter mouse click events such that right-clicking functionality is only provided by IE. Firefox user's attempt to open links in another tab find themselves SOL as a right click attempt simply behaves as a left click thereby proceeding to the Msn site in the current window. This is completely uncalled for. Just because open source is stealing IE's market share they had to go below the belt and pull an immature stunt like this. As far as I am concerned there is no legit security reason for a move like this so I am curious to hear their response when confronted. Spread the word!

Have you ever found yourself logging into several servers, serial fashion, just to do the same repetitive task and found yourself wondering why the login process itself couldn't be automated? If so, this software may be for you...

Distrowatch reports - Presented for the first time yesterday at Linux Tag in Karlsruhe, the much awaited "Live DVD" edition of KNOPPIX 4.0 is now available as a BitTorrent download from several sources. The new version contains over 4 GB of compressed files or over 2,600 packages, including the full KDE 3.4.1 and GNOME 2.8.1 desktop environments, OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta, and the usual array of server, development and multimedia applications.

OSDir grabbed some nice shots of this release.

A post from Frank at Anti-Aging Science & Medicine (commenting on some nice simulational biotech work at HHMI) made me think again about just how open source development methologies and cultures will shape the future of biotechnology.

Sometimes a daemon process (or running service) is needed to check on a condition or facilitate an event.

It slices, it dices, it waxes your car, it flattens your tummy, it improves your... well, it's open-source software, of course. Follow the money, and it ends up often enough on the open-source model these days, whether it's venture capitalists investing in startups or proprietary software sellers hedging their bets with an open-source offering. Sun looks like it will be the big open-source news of this week. But last week showed the range of companies and software categories that can't get enough of giving away software.