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Last Update: Tue Jun 10 06:46:43 2008 | | + Billionaire Broadcom Co-founder Indicted for Drugs & Backdating +
Broadcom's six-foot six-inch co-founder and ex-CEO Henry Nicholas, 48, whose last reported whereabouts was in rehab for alcoholism, [...] securities and wire fraud, false certification of financial reports, filing false statements with the SEC and conspiracy. |
| + SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo: Themes & Topics +
From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by [...] at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan. |
| + When Yahoo! Says Cloud, It Means a Freakin' Big Cloud +
Yahoo has tied up with Tata subsidiary Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to do cloud computing research. Financial terms were [...] 140TB of disk space, a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations a second and sustained computation capacity of 120 teraflops. |
| + IBM & Google Go Cloud Chasing +
That anti-Microsoft pair, IBM and Google, are kicking in $20 million-$25 million apiece for hardware, software and services to spread [...] to write Internet-scale programs that process trillions of secure transactions a day and master massively parallel computing skills. |
| + Novell Ain't No Red Hat, Even with Microsoft +
Novell made $5.87 million, or two cents a share, in its second fiscal quarter ended April 30 on flat revenues of $235.7 million, up [...] million. On a non-GAAP basis, income from operations for the second fiscal quarter 2008 was $16 million versus $9 million last year. |
| + Steve Jobs Loses His Mind - Sues "The Big Apple" +
Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of [...] known as The Big Apple, is facing a lawsuit from Steve Jobs' Apple Computer Inc. for, of all things, copyright infringement. |
| + Curl CSO to Speak at SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo +
According to Jnan Dash, Chief Strategy Officer of Curl, 2008 and beyond will see increased adoption of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. 'But [...] race for RIA. But they lack the critical dimensions of scalability, performance, and security, very important for large enterprises.' |
| + Web 2.0 and Enterprise Application Expert Joins Nexaweb As CTO +
'Businesses today are looking to build on the success of their existing technology investments with a future-proof architecture that [...] application software management and leadership experience to our team,' said Chris Heidelberger, chief executive officer, Nexaweb. |
| + Linux, Wind and the Atom +
Wind River and Intel are putting their heads together to create an extensible open source Linux platform for the automotive industry - [...] the platform at Moblin.org in hopes of creating Open Infotainment Platforms that everybody uses and that attract a vibrant ecosystem. |
| + JavaOne 2008: Sun Challenges Linux +
Sun's mule train has finally pulled into Indiana after three years on the road. Indiana is the Linux-friendly Fedora-like OpenSolaris [...] predictive self-healing and scalable Containers virtualization, not to mention its Gnome 2.22 front-end and built-in Firefox browser. |
| + CNR.com Announces Support For Linux Mint Operating System +
Linspire announced the support for the Linux Mint operating system. To gain access to the free CNR Service, Linux Mint 4.0 users [...] five Linux distributions available, including Freespire 2.0, Kubuntu 7.04 & 7.10, Linspire 6.0 and Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 & 8.04 (32bit). |
| + SCO & Novell in Court +
SCO and Novell have been in court this week trying to figure out how much SCO is supposed to owe Novell in royalties for its attempt [...] SCO claims it doesn't owe Novell at all because Novell signed away its source code rights and can only claim royalties on binaries. |
| + Linux Programmer Reiser Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder +
Linux programmer Hans Reiser has been found guilty of the first-degree murder of his estranged Russian-born wife Nina, who went [...] 2006, is now looking at a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison. First-degree murder assumes the killing was premeditated. |
| + Those Heady Days of Sex, Drugs & Linux Are Over +
Well, it looks like Richard Stallman, the father of FOSS, is going to have to cut his hair and get a suit because the warmed-over [...] finds that FOSS is now costing software vendors $60 billion a year in annual revenues, and it's still only 6% of the global spend. |
| + IBM zSeries Servers Supported by Likewise Software +
Likewise Software announced support for IBM zSeries servers that are using either Red Hat or the Novell SUSE Linux platforms. [...] zSeries servers are used by IBM customers for business-critical installations where scheduled and unscheduled downtime costs are high. |
| + Microsoft & Novell Go to China in Search of Converts +
Microsoft and Novell have taken it into their collective head to push their peculiar axis into China - and elsewhere - to convert [...] China's reputation for ignoring IP rights - among other civil liberties - and the fact that it's been a big-time Windows pirate. |
| + OLPC's Founder Ready To Climb in Bed with Microsoft +
One Laptop Per Child, the effort to put technology in the hands of third-world kids, has lost its number two guy Walter Bender, who [...] meant to be an intuitive educational tool - and port it to other species of Linux besides the Red Hat Fedora operating system XO uses. |
| + Bringing Acronis Backup & Disaster Recovery Software to Linux Users +
Acronis announced a partnership with Technalign to bring Acronis backup and disaster recovery software to Linux users. As an Acronis [...] it. The software also helps increase hardware utilization for better datacenter ROI by backing up both physical and virtual computers. |
| + Moonwalk Extends Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 +
Moonwalk announced that its Moonwalk 6.0 software suite, which delivers an archive, backup and disaster recovery solution to [...] Ready Partner, Moonwalk has extended support for its software to allow Red Hat customers to use its technology for storage management. |
| + Behr Migrates Corporate Website to JBoss +
Red Hat announced that Behr has migrated its Website from IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform in an effort to [...] and projected continuing growth, the Behr IT developers began to consider alternative technologies to meet the site's complex demands. |
| + rPath to OEM SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell for Appliances +
rPath announced a technology partnership enabling application providers to use rPath's rBuilder to create virtual appliances using the [...] milestone, enabling customers to utilize an open-source operating system with a virtual appliance lifecycle management platform. |
| + Novell Reduces Cost of Ownership for Linux on IBM System z +
To further help customers experience the benefits of Linux on the mainframe, Novell announced simplified pricing and discounts [...] workloads onto System z servers to help minimize costs, reduce downtime and data center complexity, and increase flexibility. |
| + Microsoft & Linux: At What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell? +
Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. Arguably another indication of this is their determination to buy the [...] the acquisition of Novell? From a technology perspective Novell has two things to offer Microsoft - SUSE and Identity Management. |
| + Samba Suffers Embarrassment of Riches +
Samba leader Jeremy Allison says be careful what you wish for. Now that Samba has everything that it wants from Microsoft, it doesn't [...] whom get paid for their work - and there's been a significant increase in the number of companies supporting the kernel's development. |
| + Jury To Get Reiser Murder Case Soon +
The circumstantial evidence case against Linux programmer Hans Reiser, accused of murdering his estranged wife although her body has [...] 60 witnesses and an undisciplined defendant whose outbursts tried the patience of the judge even before his 10 days on the stand. |
| + Novell Announces SUSE Appliance Program +
Novell announced the creation of the SUSE Appliance Program to enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to create appliances [...] deployment and support while dramatically reducing development costs and easing deployment of applications by end customers. |
| + Adobe Puts Out AIR for Linux +
Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention [...] can use HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy to desktops across operating systems. |
| + Likewise Practices Saying De Facto +
Likewise Software, which some people may remember as Centeris, has revved its namesake cross-platform authentication software calling [...] Active Directory, now supports something like 110 platforms, virtually all the non-Windows enterprise platforms there are, it says. |
| + Oracle Releases Clusterware for Oracle Linux Support Customers +
Oracle announced that Oracle Unbreakable Linux support customers at the Basic and Premier support levels can download and deploy [...] Clusters, Oracle Clusterware can operate independently and helps ensure the protection of an application, Oracle or third-party. |
| + Novell Sketches Out SLES 11 +
When the next generation of SUSE Linux arrives, and goodness knows when that will be - Novell doesn't even want to talk about an ETA [...] says that when it does get here one of its avatars will be as an appliance, supported by a new toolkit that builds specialized images. |
| + Western & Southern Life Chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise From Novell +
Novell announced that Western & Southern Life has implemented SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell in each of its branch offices [...] is also using Xen virtualization in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and plans to migrate many of its Sun Solaris applications to Linux. |
| + Alcatel-Lucent to Integrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Realtime +
Alcatel-Lucent and Red Hat will integrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Realtime technologies in Alcatel-Lucent communication products [...] to interconnecting people, networks, process and knowledge in a flexible, open environment while helping Red Hat expand its business. |
| + More Linux Apps Now Possible with Mono +
Novell has sent out MonoDevelop 1.0, an open source Mono development tool that supports Microsoft Visual Studio project formats as [...] it easier to port .NET apps created with Visual Studio to Linux and the Mac, maintaining a single code base of all three platforms. |
| + PHP Fit for Windows +
Under its collaboration deal with Microsoft, Zend Technologies has certified Zend Core 2.5, its commercially supported version of PHP, [...] operating system now as on Linux or Unix, something that was never true before - even though most PHP development is done on Windows. |
| + SCO Files Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan +
SCO filed a Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan and Disclosure Statement with the bankruptcy court in Delaware on Friday, a step on the [...] the ones that aren't counting on a windfall by way of litigation. It will also seat a new board and, possibly, enthrone a new CEO. |
| + SCO's Baaaaack With $100m To Pursue Its Case Against Linux +
SCO's back from the grave with a doozy of a reorganization plan and $100 million to spend pursuing its legal case against Linux. This [...] done things like, oh, recapitalize Suez. It's Norris Capital Partners that'll be buying at least 51% of SCO and taking it private. |
| + SCO Press Release +
'Not only will this deal position us to emerge from Chapter 11, but it also marks an exciting future for our business,' said Jeff [...] customers, partners and resellers who continue to request upgrades and rely upon SCO's UNIX services to drive their business forward.' |
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