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SCO CEO Darl McBride, the most hated man in the computer industry, says he's
reached for an analogy to describe SCO's experience since suing IBM. "This is
like...," he's said to himself, groping for an elucidating comparison, only
to conclude, "Nothing...Nothing compares to what's happened in the last
year."
What happened in the last few days proves his point.
BayStar, the venture capital outfit that wants its money back from SCO - a
highly uniquely situation even for the computer business - has suddenly and
out of the blue doubled its position in the company.
The Royal Bank of Canada, which BayStar brought into the $50 million
investment the pair made in... (more)
As the clock ticks and the September 3 deadline nears, speculation is rising
that the European Commission may throw a spanner into the Oracle-Sun merger
and delay things another four months.
Reuters said late Tuesday that EC regulators were fretting over the
competitive implications of Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL and debating
whether to open a full-scale investigation.
If the EC decides to probe, the acquisition could get a pass, a fail or get
loaded down with conditions, dragging out any resolution until late December,
early January.
Further delays will give IBM and HP even more time than they’ve already had
to rustle Sun’s remaining hardware customers. They’ve been chasing them
since Oracle announced its intentions to buy Sun in April.
... (more)
POWAY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/17/05 -- MARVELit, Inc., a leading open
source business intelligence company based in San Diego, today announced its
support for IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition for new and
existing customers of MARVELit's OpenReports Portal business intelligence
(BI) suite of applications and services.
MARVELit is responding to client needs to leverage the benefits of open
source solutions while receiving strong support and services from a trusted
IT vendor. "Small and medium-size businesses need BI solutions, but existing
products and services are just too expensive and complex," said Rick
Mortensen, founder and chief executive officer for MARVELit. "Using the
OpenReports Portal business intelligence suite with IBM support allows our
customers to tap into the low cost entry of open source technology to quickly
develop and depl... (more)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
, the creator and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, today announced it
is releasing its implementations of Java technology as free software under
the GNU General Public License version two (GPLv2). Available today are the
first pieces of source code for Sun's implementation of Java Platform
Standard Edition (Java SE) and a buildable implementation of Java Platform
Micro Edition (Java ME). Details are available
at:http://www.sun.com/opensource/java. In addition, Sun is adding the GPLv2
license to Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), which has been
available for over a year under the Common Development and Distribution
License (CDDL) through Project GlassFish(TM) at
http://glassfish.dev.java.net/.
This announcement represents one of the largest source code contributions
unde... (more)
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider of
enterprise network and systems monitoring software, today announced the
availability of Zenoss Core version 1.0. Zenoss Core is an integrated IT
monitoring product that allows IT administrators to manage the status and
health of their entire infrastructures through a single web-based console. As
a free, open source software product, Zenoss provides organizations
world-wide with a new alternative for enterprise-grade IT monitoring that is
substantially less expensive and easier to deploy than traditional solutions.
"Zenoss Core has been downloaded more than 50,000 times in the last 120 days;
many organizations rely on the product every day to monitor their mission
critical IT infrastructure," said Bill Karpovich, CEO and Co-Founder of
Zenoss, Inc. "The solution has already been proven in deman... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Splunk, creators of the search
engine for logs and IT data, applauds its customer, Open Source Lab at Oregon
State University (OSL), for being recognized as one of the most creative and
cutting-edge implementers of enterprise technology by industry- leading
publication InfoWorld. OSL was among 100 companies honored with the
prestigious InfoWorld 100 Award for the most innovative corporate IT
solutions in 2006. The acclaimed project includes Splunk, the industries
highest performance log and IT data search engine.
OSL provides free hosting for many of the most high profile open source
projects in the world: the Linux Kernel Project, the Apache Software
Foundation, Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, OpenOffice.org, KDE, Mozilla and
Drupal. The lab's size has more than tripled in the past 18 months and hosts
130 servers. Utilizin... (more)
ARMONK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/15/06 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced
that more than 600 independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems
integrators have joined IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community
Edition partner initiative since it was launched just six months ago. WAS
Community Edition is IBM's open source application server based on Apache
Geronimo.
As a direct result of this initiative, more than 200 ISVs have developed and
introduced new software applications that support WAS Community Edition,
while more than 250,000 copies of WAS Community Edition have been downloaded.
The WAS Community Edition partner initiative is aimed at helping business
partners reduce costs and grow revenue when supporting open source
technologies. IBM assists partners with free sales, marketing and technical
support to use WAS Community Edition to provide department... (more)
JBOSS WORLD, BERLIN, Germany, November 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bull and
JBoss, a division of Red Hat , today announced a worldwide technology and
business partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of
interoperable open source middleware solutions for enterprise
service-oriented architecture (SOA). The partnership, which builds on Bull's
existing alliance with Red Hat, is JBoss' first strategic partnership in
Europe to include open source research and development collaboration and
demonstrates both companies' leadership and commitment to open source
software innovation.
The multi-dimensional agreement increases open source innovation,
interoperability, integration, delivery, and support capabilities. Bull and
JBoss will work together in three areas:
- R&D; Collaboration: Bull becomes a contributor to the JBoss community,
following the same collab... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Alliance, the global identity
consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers,
governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the public webcast
"Open Source Identity for the Web 2.0 Era" taking place on Wednesday,
November 29 at 8:00am US PST. This event is open to anyone interested in
learning about open source single sign-on identity systems and how the
interoperability, privacy and security capabilities of SAML 2.0 can benefit
many of today's Web 2.0 applications.
The webcast presentation will be hosted by Pat Patterson, member of the
Liberty Alliance Technology Expert Group and federation architect with Sun
Microsystems. The event will provide an overview of the open source projects
in and around identity with specific focus on OpenSSO, an open source project
that implements identity feder... (more)
NEW YORK, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC),
provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open
Source Software, today announced the addition of a new client, the GNOME
Foundation. The GNOME Foundation supports the development of the open source
GNOME Desktop Environment, a user interface used by millions of people around
the world and distributed with all major versions of Linux and Unix.
"We are excited to have retained the services of the Software Freedom Law
Center," said Anne Oestergaard, Vice Chair of the GNOME Foundation Board. "As
SFLC's client, we now have access to legal advice from trusted professionals
who devote their full attention to Free and Open Source Software."
As a client of SFLC, the GNOME Foundation can receive advice regarding a
variety of legal issues, including patent and trademark issues.
"... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's
most advanced source code analysis solution, today celebrated the one year
anniversary of the scan.coverity.com project that was started under an open
source vulnerability research contract with the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS). The contract is shared with Stanford University and Symantec
Corporation. Coverity also announced a major expansion of the analysis scope,
increasing the number of open source projects involved to 150, up from 50.
In the first year, developers fixed an average of 16 defects a day. Many of
the new projects are so widely used that a single serious defect could affect
millions of people. For example, Coverity added regular scans of zlib, a
compression program used in more than 500 applications, including MSN
Messenger, Microsoft Office, QuickTime and Apache. O... (more)
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