Stories by Robert McMillan

  • Open source advocate fires back at SCO

    Just days after The SCO Group escalated its legal battle with IBM over alleged violations of the two companies' Unix source code contract, open source advocate, Eric Raymond, has responded, saying that he possesses evidence that could undermine some of SCO's legal arguments in the case.

  • James ‘Java’ Gosling comes clean

    After you’ve invented Java, what do you do for Act 2? Well, if you’re James Gosling, you retreat to the quiet sanctuary of Sun’s research and development group, Sun Labs, and spend a year working on the next generation of software development tools.

  • SCO revokes AIX license

    Escalating its $US1 billion March lawsuit against IBM, The SCO Group has terminated IBM's right to distribute its AIX Unix operating system and claimed that it was now entitled to a portion of IBM's total Unix revenue.

  • IBM keeps low profile at JavaOne

    Though Sun Microsystems' JavaOne developer conference is billed as an event for the entire Java community, the show this week in San Francisco is happening with a greatly diminished presence from one of Java's strongest supporters: IBM.

  • HP extends VMWare support

    HP has announced plans to fully support the Windows, Netware and Linux operating systems running on top of VMWare's virtual machine software as part of an extension of its partnership with the maker of virtual machine software for Intel systems.

  • Gosling: New Java tools to focus on ease of use

    After you’ve invented Java, what do you do for Act 2? Well, if you’re James Gosling, you retreat to the quiet sanctuary of Sun's research and development group, Sun Labs, and spend a year working on the next generation of software development tools.

  • HP to announce ISVs for HP-UX on Itanium

    HP is expected to announce today or tomorrow that dozens of additional independent software vendors (ISVs) plan to port their applications to the Itanium version of HP-UX in a show of growing support for HP's version of Unix on Intel's 64-bit processor.

  • IBM unleashes T-Rex

    The mainframe may be a dinosaur, but it is a carnivorous one. That was IBM's message at a press event where it launched its new line of mainframe computers, the first model of which is called the z990 - code-named T-Rex.