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All the Red Hat and JBoss news you need — Apr. 11, 2006 — As if you couldn't tell, I think Red Hat buying JBoss is big news, and so did my colleagues at eWEEK. So, here's our guide to the deal. If you're worried about the deal falling through, Lisa Vaas talked to several open-source savvy lawyers and they ...
Red Hat and JBoss: the good, the bad, the ugly — Apr. 10, 2006 — The news has hit the Linux world like a thunderbolt -- two of the biggest names in open source were coming together. Red Hat was acquiring JBoss. What does this deal really mean? As Scott Donahue, a VP for technology analyst firm The 451 Group, said, ...
Look out world, here comes Red Hat — Apr. 10, 2006 — Red Hat acquiring JBoss is big news for the open-source world. It may be even bigger news for the entire software world, though. Red Hat has long been the dominant Linux distributor. Its switch from a retail-box end-user Linux to a subscription-based business distribution
Red Hat nets JBoss — Apr. 10, 2006 — Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor, announced on April 10 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire open-source Java middleware company JBoss. JBoss has been rumored to be on ...
Microsoft launches site for open source-related blogs — Apr. 06, 2006 — Who would've thunk it? Microsoft, of all companies, launching a website that extols its own proprietary products (no surprise ...
DCC Alliance: I'm not dead yet! — Apr. 06, 2006 — Rumors were swirling around the halls of LinuxWorld that the often-troubled DCC Alliance was going to fold its tents and disappear. What actually happened was that several of the members met quietly and agreed to a tenuous plan to move forward under a new president pro tem, Kevin Carmony,
LinuxWorld hunkers down to business — Apr. 06, 2006 — On the surface, it was a quiet LinuxWorld Conference. There was little in the way of new product news, and the trade show crowd rattled about in the huge Boston Convention and Exhibition Center here like the last coffee beans in a ...
Desktop Linux's best day ever — Apr. 05, 2006 — Opinion: It's sad but true that until recently some of the Linux's desktop's best supporters were also its worst enemies. By constantly flaming each other and refusing to work together, the GNOME and KDE desktop developers were ensuring that no Linux desktop would ever get enough customer marketshare ...
Desktop Linux's best day ever — Apr. 05, 2006 — It's sad but true that until recently some of the Linux's desktop's best supporters were also its worst enemies. By constantly flaming each other and refusing to work together, the GNOME and KDE desktop developers were ensuring that no Linux desktop would ever get enough customer marketshare ...
Intel, Red Hat team to help users move to Linux — Apr. 05, 2006 — Intel and Red Hat announced at LinuxWorld in Boston on Tuesday the creation of a global training and support program that will help customers plan for, accelerate, and optimize their Linux deployments. "The Red Hat and Intel Solution Acceleration Program will give customers real-time access to the critical ...
Oracle, Novell streamline Linux grid deployment — Apr. 04, 2006 — Novell Inc. and Oracle Corp. Tuesday agreed to combine forces to speed up the slow-but-steady development of grid systems for enterprise data centers on Linux. The two companies announced the availability of a new ...
Ubuntu Linux courts business with certification test — Apr. 04, 2006 — Ubuntu, one of the most popular community Linux distributions, is continuing its march toward becoming a more business-friendly distribution. In its latest move, Canonical Ltd., Ubuntu's sponsor, and the LPI (Linux Professional Institute), the backers of the popular LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 Linux certifications, jointly announced the ...
Virtually speaking at LinuxWorld — Apr. 03, 2006 — There's only a handful of people at LinuxWorld Boston on Monday, but I've already heard some of them saying, "Why is everyone talking about virtualization?" Mea culpa, here at the Ziff Davis family of publications, we've been covering Linux virtualization like paint too. First off, we had Peter Galli's overview ...
Open-source projects gain free financial, admin services — Apr. 03, 2006 — If you want to start a non-profit open source project but don't have the least idea of how to do it, your life has just become ...
The LinuxWorld Rumor Mill — Mar. 31, 2006 — I could tell you what you will see at LinuxWorld Boston this coming week, but what's the fun in that? Instead, here are some of the rumors I've been hearing about that may come up at the show. Yet more companies are going to announce support for
Come Visit with sjvn at LinuxWorld — Mar. 31, 2006 — How would you like to meet the brightest and best writer in all of technology journalism? And, he also happens to be the best looking and sharpest dressed guy in all of tech.? Well, I'd like to meet him too, but since he won't be at LinuxWorld Boston, ...
Microsoft set to attack Linux with patents? — Mar. 30, 2006 — Is Microsoft getting ready to attack Linux and open-source software with its patents? Florian Mueller, spokesman for the European NoSoftwarePatents.com and a leading anti-patent ...
Need open-source funding? Talk to the OSDL — Mar. 29, 2006 — The OSDL (Open Source Development Labs), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux and open source software, announced on March 29th that it establishing the OSDL Fellowship Fund. This Fund will provide financial support to software developers working on Linux and open-source community projects that ...
Waterfall 2006 -- the year's hottest software development show — Mar. 29, 2006 — Perhaps the most important software development show of 2006 will be held on April 1st in Niagara Falls, NY. Waterfall 2006 will feature such keynote speeches as "Put Testing Where It Belongs -- At the End," "Dead Fish Can't Swim But ...
Red Hat posts gaudy Q4 gains — Mar. 28, 2006 — Red Hat Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings ...
Audacity: the open source podcasting program of choice — Mar. 28, 2006 — At first, I was ticked off to see that Johnathon Williams has beaten me to reviewing Audacity, the outstanding, open-source audio-editing software for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. You see Audacity is a great little program for ...
CEO Jack Messman talks about Novell's present and future — Mar. 27, 2006 — Novell has its ups -- the promise of its new desktop ...
Why is anyone still using Internet Explorer? — Mar. 27, 2006 — OK, how many times must Internet Explorer be ripped open like a hot 16-year old in a summer slasher movie before people finally get it: IE is not safe. Period. End of Statement. I don't care if you only run it around the Web on Sundays and to the nicest ...
Internet Explorer under attack — Mar. 25, 2006 — Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch reports: "That unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer that we told you about earlier in the week? It's already being exploited by hackers who are using hijacked Web servers and compromised Web sites to launch a wave of attacks against Microsoft browser users. ...
The dearth of boxed Linux — Mar. 25, 2006 — Anyone can download Linux anytime of the night or day. But, what if you want to actually buy a PC with Linux already installed on it? Or, say, like me, you like ...

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