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Globus Consortium Guides Grids

I began this year with high expectations for broader application of grid computing. At the same time, though, I shared some concerns about vendors...

IBM Unveils New Low-Cost OpenPower Server

IBM next month will roll out an entry-level two-way OpenPower server designed to compete with Hewlett-Packard Co.s and Sun Microsystems Inc.s volume Linux and...

Sun Details Open Solaris Licensing Plans

Sun Microsystems Inc. will use the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License) for its Open Solaris project, and also will announce Tuesday that it...

Teachers Union Turns to Open Source

A major teachers union is looking to open-source technology to move its enterprise systems and its members to a new non-proprietary platform that the...

Slew of Fears Slows Open-Source Uptake

The biggest question facing open-source developers is, after Linux, what can be done to spur efforts toward complete open-source software stacks? After researching open-source use...

How Significant Is SCOs Win?

How significant was The SCO Group Inc.s victory in its discovery motion over IBM in the companies ongoing battle over Linux copyright and Unix...

Native OpenOffice for Mac Still a Long Way Off

Developers of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X are no longer pursuing a native Aqua port of the open-source Office-compatible suite. The developer group said that...

Suns Schwartz Calls Out IBM on Lack of Support for Solaris on x86

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Friday upped the ante in its war of words with IBM over Big Blues lack of support for the upcoming...

SCO Wins a Round in IBM, Linux Saga

Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells of the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City gave The SCO Group Inc. a rare victory in its ongoing...

SCOs Short-Term Win Wont Salvage Its Future

SCOs win in its request for a boatload of IBM Unix code and documentation is likely to accomplish only one thing: It will delay...