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This article, first in a technical series, defines six strategies for grid application enablement. It explains the characteristics of applications suitable for these strategies and the benefits to the organization that runs the application with that strategy.

The JBoss Group LLC may offer an ESB under an open source format, with third-party software vendors able to offer ancillary products to boost the functionality of the ESB, JBoss CEO and Founder Mark Fleury said on Monday.

Responding to an allegation from Sun Microsystems that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has "pretty much forked the [Linux] distribution" on the server side, a RH spokesman has defended both the company and RHEL: ""We are fully committed to open source and our code reflects that. Red Hat has no proprietary software built in our distribution."

In October 2001, Microsoft invested $135 million in Corel, maker of WordPerfect and the corresponding suite of office productivity applications for Windows, Linux, and, at the time, Mac OS. Corel also had its own Linux distribution, of course, and had been ailing for several quarters due to a largely unfocused product line.

Rekall is the app I've spent the most time learning while running RC2 of SUSE 9.1 on my desktop the past few weeks. You may remember that Rekall began its life as a proprietary product sold by TheKompany. Today, Rekall is a dual-licensed GUI database front-end with aspirations of becoming Linux's answer to Microsoft Access. The 2.2.0-beta1 release of the GPLd version bundled with SUSE 9.1 is not Access yet, but it's very usable.

Investment Led by Siemens Venture Capital; Includes Infineon Ventures, Samsung Ventures America and China Development Industrial Bank

JBoss Inc's chief executive is urging Sun Microsystems Inc to resist pressure from IBM to open source Java, a move viewed by some as an attempt by IBM to take control of Java.

Sun Microsystems Monday announced free J2EE 1.4 technical support for all open source app server companies, so they can make their products square with the new specifications. Sun also released a new, freely downloadable" J2EE 1.4 Application Verification Kit (AVK). The new AVK tests for portability to J2EE APIs across Java-compatible application servers and applications -- including JBoss, Apache, and other open source servers.

Sub-$80 BOM cost and production ready - Starfish cuts cost and development time for volume deployment

The country’s official policy on software remains vendor, platform and technology neutral, tough reports claim developing countries need open source and free software more than the developed world.

According to Sun President Jonathan Schwartz, Red Hat's enterprise Linux offering is a propritary fork of Linux. No surprise, Red Hat and even Linux founder Linus Torvalds see it differently.

Linux is all about choice. Endless debates carry on each day, but a new company with a new distribution, Cobind, has a classic, but novel, approach: Do one thing, and do it well.

Weather.com's move to an all-open-source Web site infrastructure has enabled the company to lower costs while meeting increased capacity demands.

HP, Red Hat, Novell and Sun talking about open-source and Linux at this year's LinuxExpo--that's not news. But Microsoft joining in--now that's news.

A LOT of people think open source is important because it produces better software. Whether it does or not is one of the great technology questions of the decade, and one the global software industry is struggling to answer. There is certainly no shortage of passionate debate.

While many Linux vendors focus on creating fancy, full-featured desktops to compete with Windows, some experts assert that a better approach for companies is to think thin.

This week's Gentoo newsletter is now available for your perusal.

Mozilla Foundation has held talks with the GNOME Foundation to discuss future collaboration. The minutes of the meeting, which took place via teleconference last Wednesday, reveal that the discussions covered the integration of Mozilla with GNOME, strategies to combat Microsoft Longhorn technologies (especially XAML), duplication of technology between the two projects and the default Linux browser.