VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights
"Bloomberg believe VMware’s IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company’s supposedly proprietary ESX product, which may be derived from…
Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire
"I had the opportunity to present at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in the last three weeks – both O’Reilly and IDG were gracious enough to grant me a session on the…
Torvalds attacks Microsoft over open source
Microsoft is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt among open source users, Linus Torvalds said in an interview published last week.
The software giant is falling short with its technology…
Linux ready to play with rivals
Kevin Kettler told an audience at LinuxWorld that virtualisation and Linux was no longer such an odd combination.
"The two play to one another very strongly, particularly in the re-emerging…
"A few more" versions of Linux Kernel 2.6.20 planned
Willy Tarreau, maintainer of the 2.4 kernel series, wants to continue to oversee the Linux version 2.6.20 a bit longer than the maintainers of the stable kernel series would normally have done.…
Linux Boom Ahead?
The SCO Group frightened potential business users away from Linux with lawsuits demanding billions in royalties. But the litigious company's claims were shot down in a ruling that will likely…
VMware Prices Initial Public Offering
VMware kicked off an IPO of 33,000,000 shares for its Class A Common Stock priced at $29 per share. Shares began trading NYSE today under the ticker symbol "VMW".
Citi, JPMorgan and Lehman…
Carmack commits to Open Source as Quakeworld
At Quakeworld, John Carmack (the genius behind Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein) commits to open sourcing idsoftware's future games: "I mean I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will be open…
The open-source community's double standard on MySQL
Deja vu. Remember 2002? That's when Red Hat decided to split its code into Red Hat Advanced Server (now Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Fedora. Howls of protest and endless hand-wringing ensued: How…
SCO stock down 71.3% mid day trading today
Last Friday the court concluded that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyright, today SCO stock went from $1.56 down to $0.44!
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