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OS Competition Is Good for IT

The competition between open-source and proprietary software promises to be the most significant force in IT over the next decade. This rivalry will play...

Sun Proposes New Open-Source License

Sun Microsystems Inc. has proposed a new open-source license to the Open Source Initiative, but Linus Torvalds and others doubt that it will help...

Sybase Puts Linux Database on IBMs OpenPower Platform

Sybase Inc. has hooked up with IBM to put Sybases relational database, ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise), on IBMs Linux-tuned eServer OpenPower-based systems, the company...

Oracle Apps Certified on Novell SuSE Linux Servers

Oracle and Novell announced Tuesday that Oracles latest database, clustering, application server, collaboration solutions and enterprise applications are now available for and supported on...

GPL Could Put Heat on Microsoft

Efforts under way to revise the popular GNU General Public License could put additional pressure on Microsoft Corp. by the time it tries to...

FSF Faces New GPL Challenges

Whats a long time in the technology business? Is it 18 months, as in Moores Law? Is it two years, which is the least...

Torvalds: GPL Needs Minor Work

The GNU General Public License, which is the most widely used free-software license and is used to license the open-source Linux kernel, is set...

OpenOffice.org Grows Up, Gets Help

OpenOffice.orgs namesake suite turned 4 last month, and in a sign of just how far the open-source productivity suite has come, a commercially supported...

Fedora Core 3 Caps Linux Distribution

Fedora Core 3, the latest release of Red Hat Inc.s free, unsupported, bleeding-edge Linux distribution, is stacked with changes that include the way it...

SCO Site Attacked Again

The SCO Group Inc.s Web site has once again been attacked, but this time hackers didnt just target the site for a distributed-denial-of-service attack—they...