The group in charge of the open source Eclipse project has approved a three-month restructuring process that should reduce IBM's dominant role in the effort and make the project more attractive to Java vendors such as Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems.
Stepping up its campaign against the Linux operating system, Microsoft has released file and Web serving benchmark results that, it claims, show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind Windows 2003 on Intel systems in terms of performance for the money.
IBM will soon begin rolling out application provisioning software it acquired in its May acquisition of Toronto's Think Dynamics.
The SCO Group has been fined $US10,785 for violating a German court's ruling that it must cease claiming that the Linux source code violates its intellectual property.
The SCO Group's wesite was accessible again on Monday after being down for about three days, the victim of a denial of service (DOS) attack launched by a "senior" member of the open source community, according to open source advocate, Eric Raymond.
The first publicly released sample that The SCO Group claims was improperly added to the Linux source code has every right to be in Linux, according to open source advocate, Bruce Perens.
Mixing James Bond video clips with dry analysis of legal contracts and source code, The SCO Group made its legal case over IBM's alleged misappropriation of Linux source code to 650 developers and channel partners at its annual trade show in Las Vegas, yesterday.
The SCO Group has predicted that it would book between $US9 million and $US12 million in revenue on Unix licensing deals with technology companies in its next financial quarter.
IBM no longer has the right to use or distribute the Dynix/ptx operating system it acquired in its 1999 purchase of Sequent Computer, The SCO Group said.
Iomega is developing a way for computer users to take their hard disks on the road.
A rift between the developers of the open source JBoss J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application server has brought the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) into the J2EE game.
Presenting a vision of co-operation rather than competition between Java and Linux, Sun executive vice-president of software, Jonathan Schwartz, told an audience at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo to worry more about the quality of their code than the software licenses that govern it. Presenting a vision of co-operation rather than competition between Java and Linux, Sun executive vice-president of software, Jonathan Schwartz, told an audience at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo to worry more about the quality of their code than the software licenses that govern it.
Disgruntled stock holders have filed two separate class action lawsuits seeking to halt EMC’s planned acquisition of Legato Systems.
Questions about the splintering of the popular .zip file compression format may soon be resolved by the US Patent Office.
Sun Microsystems is expected to announce new distribution relationships soon to address the mid-market space.
