Microsoft Ranks Linux Second On Risk List
Sunday the 20th, July 2003 at 07:43 PM (EDT)
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Anonymous Reader writes "Microsoft is taking the Linux threat seriously. So seriously, in fact, that open source software comes in at the number two spot on the company's top five list of risks."
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SCO readies new Linux licensing program
Sunday the 20th, July 2003 at 12:21 AM (EDT)
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The SCO Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation.
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Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE
Thursday the 17th, July 2003 at 01:57 PM (EDT)
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer might have trounced the likes of Netscape Navigator, but the folks at Mozilla.org insist the browser wars aren't over.
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IBM boosts Linux server development staff
Wednesday the 16th, July 2003 at 03:06 PM (EDT)
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IBM has added about 50 developers to its Linux Technology Center as part of an effort to certify Linux as a stable operating system for customers running servers with more than eight Power4 processors.
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Oracle backs India's software skills
Friday the 11th, July 2003 at 12:01 AM (EDT)
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Oracle Corporation, one of the biggest global software giants, today strongly backed India in comparison to China in the field of software services.
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Sources say IBM to drop Windows-based storage
Monday the 7th, July 2003 at 08:11 PM (EDT)
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Sonya Bidermanm writes "IBM plans to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices in order to focus on higher-end products, including an upcoming file server that will run Linux, sources said this week."
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Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes
Monday the 7th, July 2003 at 08:11 PM (EDT)
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Sonya Bidermanm writes "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts, the state appealing Microsoft's landmark antitrust settlement, has told a federal judge it is probing potential breaches of the pact. The consent decree approved by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in November includes provisions aimed at giving computer makers more freedom to feature non-Microsoft software on the machines they sell."
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SCO's chief taking Linux beef to Japan
Saturday the 5th, July 2003 at 01:47 PM (EDT)
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PARK RIDGE, Ill. ? A decision by eight consumer giants, most of them Japanese, to throw their support behind Linux has the chief executive officer of SCO Group on the move. Darl McBride, whose company recently launched a legal attack on Linux for alleged patent infringements, will go to Japan this week in an attempt to prove his point with some of the manufacturers that came together last week as the CE Linux Forum (CELF).
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Copying troubles a hiccup for Linux festival
Monday the 30th, June 2003 at 02:40 PM (EDT)
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CD duplication company Software Images has refused a request to copy 500 Linux software CDs for a Linux Installfest this Saturday, because of concerns the job would breach a contract with Microsoft and infringe intellectual property rights.
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IBM bets 2.9 Billion on Linux for semiconductor manufacture
Saturday the 28th, June 2003 at 12:10 PM (EDT)
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Baron Smith writes "An information technology company really believes in their technology when they use it themselves, in mission-critical applications. So when IBM invested 2.9 Billion in the worlds most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility, it's telling that they"
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