Microsoft is considering moving into high-performance servers, in a move that might be just a successor to Windows Server Datacenter or might be aimed at directly challenging Linux on the server, depending who you believe.
The belief of Daniel Egger, founder of OSRM -- provider of "code-scanning and copyright infringement detection technologies, risk assessment, risk mitigation consulting, best practices training and certification, vendor-neutral indemnification and custom insurance to the Global 1000" -- is that, by fostering a collaborative, community-based model for identifying and mitigating relevant litigation risks, OSRM will be able to offer its comprehensive insurance at the lowest possible cost.
Within the last few months, The SCO Group Inc. has threatened legal action against several major retailers for using Linux, claiming that they hold the copyright to Unix and that retailers who use Linux violate SCO's copyright. In response, the National Retail Federation, the world's largest retail trade association, has issued a statement refuting SCO's copyright claims.
Linux source code could be infiltrated by dubious elements, including spies, according to a white paper released by Dan O'Dowd, chief executive officer of Green Hills Software Inc.
"Novell is back!" declared CEO Jack Messman as he opened his company's twentieth annual techfest, BrainShare, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO (03/19/2004) - "It is hereby ordered that Defendant may have until March 19, 2004, to respond to Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint," wrote the Honorable Dale A. Kimball. And so today we can expect the next chapter in the long-running The SCO Group Inc. vs IBM Corp. saga, as Big Blue files its response to the SCO complaint in question.
"Users will see a three- to five-percent performance increase in the same machine under the new software," said Charlie Ungashick, Novell 's director of product marketing — referring to the fact that, because Linux 2.6 is more efficient, users' computers would be better able to handle multiple streams of audio and visual media, as well as use Linux with 64-bit central processors.
SAN FRANCISCO (01/15/2004) - Novell Inc. Chairman and CEO Jack Messman is the opening keynote speaker at this year's LinuxWorld Expo & Conference in New York.
"2004 will be the year of Linux," says Richard Seibt. As the former CEO of SuSE Linux AG, now joining Novell Inc. to continue managing SUSE LINUX as President, he ought to know.
Richard Granger, the director general IT for the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) was complaining barely over a week ago about a company that he referred to delicately as a "west coast software company. . .who makes spreadsheet software."
SAN FRANCISCO (12/08/2003) - The SCO Group Inc. is about to find out just how prudent it was to claim that "million lines of code" in Linux are there because IBM illegally put them there in breach of SCO's intellectual property rights.