Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Novell Inc. announced on Monday a new initiative called the Porting and Migration Network to help customers and partners move existing applications to SUSE Linux. Novell announced the program at its European BrainShare 2004 tradeshow in Barcelona, Spain. Under the initiative, leading software and hardware vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and […]

Dear Sun, Since your president and COO is so fond of open letters, I thought I might deliver one of my own. On Monday, at a press conference in Burlington, Mass., you announced that you were open-sourcing Solaris 10. You also said that Solaris 10 would have a new file system, and that Solaris 10 […]

Novell Inc. on Monday announced at its BrainShare trade show in Barcelona, Spain, the immediate availability of Novell ZENworks 6.6 Linux Management, a Linux software management system. With enhanced support for and integration with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, Novells ZENworks Linux Management is designed to allow administrators to manage multiple Linux systems over a […]

IBM and the Brazilian government announced Thursday that they have signed a cooperation agreement to establish a knowledge and technology center, known as CDTC, which will promote and develop open-source and Linux solutions in Brazil. This is the next step in a plan that IBM announced last December. In it, IBM and the Brazilian government […]

Sybase Inc. this week released Adaptive Server Enterprise Express Edition for Linux, a free version of its enterprise-class database for deployment on Linux systems. Sybase ASE has been available on Linux since 1999, making Sybase one of the first first-tier DBMS vendors to embrace Linux. Sybase hopes the new promotion will attract enterprises, the developer […]

Unisys is offering Red Hat Inc.s Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its entire line of Unisys servers, the two companies announced Tuesday. Further, by announcing an array of initiatives Red Hat and Unisys made it clear that this isnt just a product partnership. The initiatives include joint marketing, customer support, continued development of open-source road […]

Red Hat Inc. Tuesday released its latest patch, Update 3, to its flagship server operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. RHEL(Red Hat Enterprise Linux)subscribers can download this latest update from the Red Hat Network. This latest Red Hat update features several security enhancements, which had originally been targeted for delivery in early 2005. The […]

Longhorns delay may be Linuxs gain, according to Linux vendors and analysts. With Longhorn shorn of most of its most important features, such as WinFS (Windows File System), Linux supporters are hopeful that the Linux desktop can finally make inroads into the hearts and minds of corporate desktop users. /zimages/6/28571.gifRead more here about Microsofts decision […]

More than two months after Red Hats chief financial officer resigned and the company announced a change in its accounting methods, the Linux distributor on Thursday named Charles E. Peters Jr. as its new CFO. Peters, a CPA with more than 30 years of financial leadership including 20 years in publicly traded companies, will serve […]

Has Microsoft blinked on its licensing requirements for Sender ID, making it more acceptable to the open-source community? Some open-source leaders and companies think that it has, while others vehemently disagree. Although Microsoft hasnt officially changed its Sender ID license, Harry Katz, program manager for Microsoft Exchange, has made three points about how it will […]

Lindows is dead. Long live Linspire. On Wednesday, Linspire Inc. announced the official completion of its global name change from Lindows to Linspire. Linspire will no longer use the term Lindows in any of its current marketing materials, Web site or retail packaging. The company changed its name as part of a recent worldwide settlement […]

The SCO Group, the beleaguered Unix company thats locked in an intellectual property war with IBM over Linux and Unix, reported another poor quarter Tuesday. For its fiscal third quarter, ended July 31, The SCO Group Inc. reported revenue of $11.2 million, compared with $20.1 million in the same quarter a year ago. This was […]