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Linux slashes costs for bank giant

  • ComputerWeekly.com (Posted by dave on Nov 30, 2004 6:31 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein uses Linux on Intel servers to cut running costs by 45% One of the biggest investment banks in Europe is using Linux for up to 70% of its new IT projects after finding that running the open source operating system on Intel-based servers cut running costs by nearly half.

Sybase taps IBM to help sell database software

  • CNET News.com (Posted by dave on Nov 30, 2004 6:21 AM CST)
  • Groups: IBM, Sun; Story Type: News Story
Sybase said Tuesday that it will partner with hardware vendor IBM to market its Linux database software, potentially dealing a blow to Sun Microsystems, another long-standing partner.

The Secrets of Open-Source Managing

Computer-game maker Valve Software had high hopes for Half-Life 2, an eagerly anticipated sci-fi shoot-'em-up thriller that had been five years in the making. And when the game finally became available over the Internet last year, fans were ecstatic. There was just one problem: Valve hadn't actually released the game. Instead, the code had been snatched by hackers, who'd posted it online for anyone to download. "This could have been a real hit to our bottom line," says Valve marketing chief Doug Lombardi.

Linux for Suits: Grass Roots vs. Giant Roars

  • Linux Journal (Posted by dave on Nov 30, 2004 4:30 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
While big-name companies scramble to protect business models, this company is making open-ended devices that give customers the right to control their own telephone and media experiences.

Microsoft's Beijing win raises concerns in China

There is growing disquiet about public sector IT contracts being awarded to Western vendors in China, a country long known for its fondness of open-source and homegrown companies.

Father Of Linux Pushes No Patent Movement

Linus Torvalds (Linux), Michael Widenius (MySQL) and Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) have urged the EU Council not to adopt a draft directive on software patents that they consider "deceptive, dangerous, and democratically illegitimate." They also called on the Internet community to express solidarity by placing NoSoftwarePatents.com links and banners on their websites.

The open source wiki behind Wikipedia

  • NewsForge (Posted by dave on Nov 30, 2004 3:30 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
A wiki is a software platform for contributing, sharing, and managing content. Any group that has a need for a collaborative user driven content environment can benefit from using a wiki. Perhaps the most prominent example on the Web of a wiki in heavily active, popular usage today is Wikipedia, which is, as you might expect, a wiki-based encyclopedia. The Wikimedia Foundation uses as the basis of Wikipedia a GPL-licensed application called MediaWiki, and so can you.

Sun And Open Source

  • WebProNews (Posted by dave on Nov 30, 2004 2:42 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Sun
We don't even yet know what Sun means by "open source", but already the pundits are arguing about whether making Solaris "open source" (whatever that turns out to mean) will help them or hurt them.

Official Launch Of The "Open Source Consortium"

  • SourceWire (press release) (Posted by dave on Nov 30, 2004 2:26 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Press Release
A coalition of over 60 European Open Source service providers have united to form the Open Source Consortium, (OSC) an independent reference point to give an unbiased “proprietary-vendor free” voice for all organisations deploying or contemplating the Open Source alternative. The consortium which is borne out of a fusion between the Open Source movement and prime-mover demand from areas such as the Public Sector, aims to bring impartial clarity to the debate.

IBM signs Brazilian Linux training pact

  • CNET News.com; By Stephen Shankland (Posted by dave on Nov 30, 2004 2:25 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM
IBM has signed a deal to provide training in Linux and open-source software to 980 employees in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, the company said Monday. Brazil is an aggressive adopter of the operating system and other open-source software.

Open-source geeks are modern hero's

  • ZDnet.co.uk; By Graeme Wearden (Posted by HappyTux on Nov 30, 2004 2:09 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Coders who give up their spare time to contribute to open source projects are the virtual equivalent of lifeboat men, according to latest research from Demos.

Are you waiting for the new version of cdw?

  • cdw; By vbali (Posted by VISITOR on Nov 30, 2004 2:02 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
We didn't release any new version of cdw - the console and GTK based cd burning front-end - for a long time. The latest version - 0.2.3 - released on 15-05-2004. I would like to know how many people are using it and would use it in the future. I wouldn't work on development of cdw just for my sake.

Say hello to XMPP

  • NewsForge (Posted by dave on Nov 29, 2004 9:30 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is the formalized incarnation of the Jabber instant message protocol. But what exactly does that formalization mean? And why should you care?

New open source industry group opens its doors

  • Techworld.com (Posted by dave on Nov 29, 2004 2:14 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
A coalition of service providers claims it will shake up the open source market by offering an alternative to the larger vendors. It also aims to counter the claims made by Microsoft that open source is the more expensive option. The Open Source Consortium, a grouping of more than 60 companies has been established to offer, what it claims is an unbiased "proprietary-vendor free" voice for all organisations contemplating an Open Source roll-out.

Hackers deface SCO site

  • CNET News.com; By Matt Hines (Posted by dave on Nov 29, 2004 11:53 AM CST)
  • Groups: SCO; Story Type: News Story
Hackers defaced SCO Group's Web site on Monday, targeting the company's controversial claims to elements of the Linux operating system.

Of Modems and Winmodems

Time for a shocker. Device support under Linux is excellent. No, really. We have been trained to assume that anything and everything just works with Windows but that isn't even remotely true. From time to time, even Windows users must visit hardware vendors' Web sites to download a driver. Furthermore, some hardware works with one version of Windows and not another so having all your hardware work under Windows is far from being a given (probably closer to a myth). When running Linux, the sheer number of things that will work "out of the box" without you having to search for and install drivers is nothing short of impressive and, quite frankly, beats your old OS hands down. No contest.

OpenOffice.org Grows Up, Gets Help

  • eWEEK Linux; By Anne Chen (Posted by dave on Nov 29, 2004 11:16 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
OpenOffice.org's namesake suite turned 4 last month, and in a sign of just how far the open-source productivity suite has come, a commercially supported version of the software for Windows is now available.

Eclipse 3 on SableVM Java Virtual Machine

  • http://planet.debian.net/ (Posted by mariuz on Nov 29, 2004 9:28 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Debian
The joined efforts of SableVM JVM hackers and GNU Classpath hackers finally allowed Eclipse 3 to run on SableVM!. According to what Etienne told me, he was running Eclipse 3 on his Debian PowerPC for a few hours, including editing, compiling and running simple java programs. And all that using SableVM as the only Java Virtual Machine on his laptop.

Open source community attacks Sun

SUN CEO Jonathan Schwartz's claim that his Java Community Process is the only true open source has greatly miffed the open source movement. Eric Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, has hit out in an open letter that Schwartz's claims that Linux didn't even get a vote when it came to being close to the open source ideals.

Veterans Dept checks open-source options

  • Australian Financial Review (Posted by dave on Nov 29, 2004 9:00 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Commonwealth Department of Veterans Affairs is considering installing open-source software on its desktop computers as it continues a wide-ranging technology revamp that has taken in almost all of its information systems.

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