PCMAG : Linux Goes to the Movies
Wednesday the 7th, May 2003 at 01:35 AM (EDT)
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A behind-the-scenes look at the major role Linux played in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. In case you haven't met him yet, Gollum is one of the stars of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He's a sickly, pale creature on a quest to find the Ring. But he's not played by a human actor. He's a computer-generated image created on the hottest server platform to hit mainstream corporate computing: Linux.
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TheRegister : MS legal threat derails Foxpro on Linux demo
Friday the 18th, April 2003 at 10:50 AM (EDT)
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Microsoft has enraged the developer community after a Redmond executive last week threatened a software developer to prevent him from demonstrating a Microsoft application running on Linux.
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Linux will grab some share from MS claimed Red Hat chief
Thursday the 5th, December 2002 at 12:30 AM (EST)
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Right at Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo on Tuesday, RedHat's chairman and chief executive officer share his view on the expansion of Linux from academia to commercial acceptance in global enterprises and not forgetting to add some spice to Linux scalability on devices from handhelds to mainframe computers including its appearance in distributed environments and blade servers.
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Microsoft's new licensing options.
Tuesday the 14th, May 2002 at 04:52 AM (EDT)
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"My phone's been ringing off the hook," Eric Harrison at the Multnomah Educational Service District in Portland, Ore says. "Schools are looking at what Microsoft wants them to do, and it increases their cost significantly."
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IBM Boosts zSeries 900 Mainframe Processor Speeds
Thursday the 9th, May 2002 at 06:40 PM (EDT)
Marcel Morgan - 0 Talkback(s) with 1043 Reads
IBM Corp has quietly cranked the clocks on its zSeries 900 mainframes,
announcing the "zRex" kickers to the current "Freeway" zSeries mainframes. The
new mainframes, for which IBM didn't even put out a press release, offer
somewhere from 15% to 20% more processing power than the first generation
zSeries 900 machines. The faster CMOS mainframe engines were not put into the
midrange zSeries 800 machines
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Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem
Saturday the 20th, April 2002 at 06:54 PM (EDT)
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As part of Microsoft's campaign against the GPL, Bill Gates is personally coming to the front line to launch attacks. While speaking at the Government Leadership Conference, Gates argues against spending R&D dollars for GPLed software development.
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B2E: Instant ROI
Monday the 8th, April 2002 at 06:43 PM (EDT)
Adhanda Enterprises - 0 Talkback(s) with 535 Reads
At a time when companies are being forced to resort to large-scale layoffs, it has become increasingly important to minimize the costs normally associated with the Human Resource function. Business-to-employee portals are gaining popularity with companies around the globe because of their ability to increase efficiencies and improve internal communication processes.
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Codeweavers cut ties with Lindows
Saturday the 6th, April 2002 at 03:07 PM (EST)
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CodeWeavers, the company that developed a software products enabling Windows applications to run on Linux, has ended its business relationship with Lindows.
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KDE 3 Released to the Public
Thursday the 4th, April 2002 at 04:02 AM (EST)
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The KDE Project Ships the Third-Generation of the Leading Desktop for Linux/UNIX, Offering Enterprises, Governments, Schools, and Businesses an Outstanding Free and Open Desktop Solution
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Linux is capable of running Microsoft Office
Thursday the 28th, March 2002 at 03:53 PM (EST)
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Codeweavers a developer of Open Source Wine project finally put Microsoft Office on Linux. Wine emulates the Windows environment and comes with just about every Linux distribution. Performance has been spotty until now. Today, Codeweavers announced the 1.0 release of Crossover Office.
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