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"The Eclipse Board of Stewards announced that Eclipse has re-organized, changing from an industry consortium to a not-for-profit corporation with a full-time management organization. A board of directors will be formed to oversee and staff the management organization. The board expects to announce an Executive Director in the coming weeks. IBM originally founded and largely controlled Eclipse."

"Linux 2.6 promises a lot. It will scale to larger systems with more memory and many more devices than its 2.4 predecessor. The operating system also supports more embedded processors than ever before. In short: The kernel is packed with more than enough features to make IT shops take notice."

"Novell launched two new certification programs Monday to ensure that partners and customers can obtain the expertise necessary to support the company's Linux-based solutions."

SOFTWARE giant Oracle has revealed aggressive plans to use Linux throughout its organisation and is advising many of its customers to do the same. My friend, the MoT IT guy, says he wants to deploy Linux. From

"Adoption of Intel Architecture and BEA WebLogic JRockit Help Cut Hardware And Maintenance Costs by 20 Percent, Double System Performance, and 10 Times Cost-Effective"

MontaVista Software today announced that CEO Jim Ready will serve on the board of directors of the newly formed not-for-profit Eclipse corporation, of which MontaVista will be a founding "Strategic" member. Additionally, MontaVista is sponsoring and presenting a session at this week's "Eclipse.con" trade show in Anaheim, Calif.

Java originator and owner Sun Microsystems last week sent an "open letter" to members of Eclipse.org congratulating the organization on its "transition to independence" from founder IBM, and challenging it to work with Sun toward the common, "big picture" goal of promoting the Java platform.

SuSE Linux, swallowed up by Novell late last year, claims that it expects to be several months ahead of its archrival, Red Hat, in releasing a Linux

Editor's note: This letter from the Eclipse Foundation is in response to an open letter to the Eclipse community published here on NewsForge last week. OSDN News Editor Chris Preimesberger also published a commentary on the subject.

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I watched the webcast and while I lost the stream once or twice, I heard the bulk of it.

Here are some screenshots to give you a feel for the evening at Harvard.

Here is SCO's Exhibit C, attached to their Motion to Compel. Some of these issues may come up at the court hearing, on the off chance that SCO really did comply with discovery requirements, so thank you to Henrik Grouleff for transcribing. You can get the PDF here.

Here is a report from KSL-TV: "Collin Bunker, Westminster College Systems Engineer: 'Most Linux users that I've talked to, or people involved in the community, aren't maliciously angry at SCO.' . . .

for music encoded in the Ogg Vorbis format and its compatibility with Linux and is expected to reach Europe during the first half of 2004, after certification

IBM, for one, is currently running a series of television and online ads proclaiming that the future is open, as in open source computing.

Dan Gilmore doersn't [sic] think anyone in the Linux Community was behind the Mydoom attack on SCO, and furthermore thinks, "if this has been done by someone who wants to punish SCO for its sleazy attacks on Linux and the open-source movement, it's about as counter-productive as anything could be ..."

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) is calling for the federal government and the opposition to put in place policies that support open source software in an

server. Amongst those, Linux has emerged as the clear favourite. In the second quarter, Lotus is scheduled to release version 1.1.

By Fleur Doidge, iTnews. Zultys Technologies has released a Linux-based softphone application that could help penguin-powered SMBs adopt IP telephony.