<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from LINUX.SYS-CON.COM</title><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from LINUX.SYS-CON.COM</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>LINUX.SYS-CON.COM</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 16:11:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from LINUX.SYS-CON.COM</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/11/lwm-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>A Runtime Integration Approach to Application Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/559825.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/559825.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/559825_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This pattern is a hybrid of plug-in and event-driven architecture to integrate individual plug-ins together to come up with the Plug-in Integrator Pattern. This pattern leverages the benefits of both these well-known architectures to provide an optimal solution to build an enterprise-ready rapid application development infrastructure, preferably in Flex, but it might also be implemented in other programming languages such as Java and C#.]]></description></item><item><title>JavaOne 2008: Sun Challenges Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/563069.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/563069.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/563069_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sun's mule train has finally pulled into Indiana after three years on the road. Indiana is the Linux-friendly Fedora-like OpenSolaris project meant to move the Solaris-shy Linux community off Linux and on to Solaris tempted by Solaris widgetry like the highly scalable, rollback-easy, 128-bit ZFS default filesystem, Linux-like network-based Image Packaging System (IPS) application install accelerator, DTrace predictive self-healing and scalable Containers virtualization, not to mention its Gnome 2.22 front-end and built-in Firefox browser.]]></description></item><item><title>CNR.com Announces Support For Linux Mint Operating System</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/562511.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/562511.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/562511_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Linspire announced the support for the Linux Mint operating system. To gain access to the free CNR Service, Linux Mint 4.0 users simply install the free CNR Client that is available at CNR.com. With Linux Mint support, CNR.com now offers its one-click software delivery service to five Linux distributions available, including Freespire 2.0, Kubuntu 7.04 & 7.10, Linspire 6.0 and Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 & 8.04 (32bit).]]></description></item><item><title>SCO &amp; Novell in Court</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/558171.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/558171.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/558171_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SCO and Novell have been in court this week trying to figure out how much SCO is supposed to owe Novell in royalties for its attempt to tax Linux. This is the money that SCO claims it doesn't owe Novell at all because Novell signed away its source code rights and can only claim royalties on binaries.]]></description></item><item><title>Linux Programmer Reiser Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/553956.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/553956.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/553956_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Linux programmer Hans Reiser has been found guilty of the first-degree murder of his estranged Russian-born wife Nina, who went missing after dropping their two small children with their father on Labor Day weekend 2006.    Reiser, who's been in jail since October of 2006, is now looking at a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison. First-degree murder assumes the killing was premeditated.]]></description></item><item><title>Those Heady Days of Sex, Drugs &amp; Linux Are Over</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/546617.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/546617.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/546617_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Well, it looks like Richard Stallman, the father of FOSS, is going to have to cut his hair and get a suit because the warmed-over hippie movement he's been leading is no longer the radical anti-software establishment counter-culture his rag-tag army fancies it is. Nope, it IS the software establishment. That is the finding of the Standish Group, which after five years of research on open source has delivered a $1,000 report called 'Trends in Open Source,' a study that finds that FOSS is now costing software vendors $60 billion a year in annual revenues, and it's still only 6% of the global spend.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM zSeries Servers Supported by Likewise Software</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/556305.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/556305.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/556305_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Likewise Software announced support for IBM zSeries servers that are using either Red Hat or the Novell SUSE Linux platforms. Customers that rely on zSeries for their mission critical applications can now use Likewise Software products to directly join their systems to MicrosoftR Active Directory. zSeries servers are used by IBM customers for business-critical installations where scheduled and unscheduled downtime costs are high.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft &amp; Novell Go to China in Search of Converts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552118.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552118.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552118_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Novell have taken it into their collective head to push their peculiar axis into China - and elsewhere - to convert unsupported Linux users to SUSE. They say they've had demand 'to build a bridge between open source and proprietary software and provide interoperability and IP peace of mind,' a claim that set off guffaws across the open source community considering China's reputation for ignoring IP rights - among other civil liberties - and the fact that it's been a big-time Windows pirate.]]></description></item><item><title>OLPC&apos;s Founder Ready To Climb in Bed with Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552119.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552119.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552119_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One Laptop Per Child, the effort to put technology in the hands of third-world kids, has lost its number two guy Walter Bender, who was president, software and content until last month when he was shifted to head of deployment although not many of OLPC's novel Linux-based XO machines have been getting deployed. Bender, credited with building OLPC, has now reportedly gone off to develop XO's icon-based Sugar GU interface - meant to be an intuitive educational tool - and port it to other species of Linux besides the Red Hat Fedora operating system XO uses.]]></description></item><item><title>Bringing Acronis Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery Software to Linux Users</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552418.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552418.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/552418_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Acronis announced a partnership with Technalign to bring Acronis backup and disaster recovery software to Linux users. As an Acronis Gold Authorized Solution Provider, Technalign will be able to offer its customers Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux software for trial and evaluation, as well as providing discounted customer support and training. Acronis True Image allows IT administrators to capture a hardware image and to restore it. The software also helps increase hardware utilization for better datacenter ROI by backing up both physical and virtual computers.]]></description></item><item><title>Moonwalk Extends Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/549377.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/549377.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/549377_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Moonwalk announced that its Moonwalk 6.0 software suite, which delivers an archive, backup and disaster recovery solution to heterogeneous networks, has become an approved application for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0. As a Red Hat Ready Partner, Moonwalk has extended support for its software to allow Red Hat customers to use its technology for storage management.]]></description></item><item><title>Behr Migrates Corporate Website to JBoss</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/548610.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/548610.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/548610_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Red Hat announced that Behr has migrated its Website from IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform in an effort to reduce total cost of ownership, increase reliability, eliminate vendor lock-in and accelerate its development lifecycle. The Behr.com Website is an important marketing tool for the company and was the centerpiece of a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign in 2007. With approximately 450,000 visitors per month and projected continuing growth, the Behr IT developers began to consider alternative technologies to meet the site's complex demands.]]></description></item><item><title>rPath to OEM SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell for Appliances</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/547747.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/547747.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/547747_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[rPath announced a technology partnership enabling application providers to use rPath's rBuilder to create virtual appliances using the rPath Appliance Platform and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. The agreement promises to reduce complexity and costs of application distribution and deployment, while maintaining the strategic value of investments in application certification. The Novell-rPath collaboration marks an industry milestone, enabling customers to utilize an open-source operating system with a virtual appliance lifecycle management platform.]]></description></item><item><title>Novell Reduces Cost of Ownership for Linux on IBM System z</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/546895.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/546895.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/546895_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[To further help customers experience the benefits of Linux on the mainframe, Novell announced simplified pricing and discounts throughout 2008 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM's System z mainframes. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z lets customers consolidate distributed workloads onto System z servers to help minimize costs, reduce downtime and data center complexity, and increase flexibility.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft &amp; Linux: At What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/535178.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/535178.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/535178_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. Arguably another indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo. Instead of migrating all the tried and tested Yahoo services over to a Windows server infrastructure, wouldn't it be simpler to establish Microsoft Linux through the acquisition of Novell? From a technology perspective Novell has two things to offer Microsoft - SUSE and Identity Management.]]></description></item><item><title>Samba Suffers Embarrassment of Riches</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/540622.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/540622.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/540622_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Samba leader Jeremy Allison says be careful what you wish for. Now that Samba has everything that it wants from Microsoft, it doesn't have enough hands to do the coding. Meanwhile, the Linux Foundation says that in the last three years the number of developers contributing to the Linux kernel has tripled - 70%-95% of whom get paid for their work - and there's been a significant increase in the number of companies supporting the kernel's development.]]></description></item><item><title>Jury To Get Reiser Murder Case Soon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/540697.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/540697.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/540697_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The circumstantial evidence case against Linux programmer Hans Reiser, accused of murdering his estranged wife although her body has never been found, looks like it could go to the jury in the next few days after a trial that started November 6 and has suffered through 60 witnesses and an undisciplined defendant whose outbursts tried the patience of the judge even before his 10 days on the stand.]]></description></item><item><title>Novell Announces SUSE Appliance Program</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/544617.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/544617.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/544617_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Novell announced the creation of the SUSE Appliance Program to enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to create appliances combining their applications with the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform in one integrated package for end-customer deployment. Novell also announced the beta release of SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS, a minimized version of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform that ISVs can use as a platform for creating appliances. As a result, ISVs will realize simplified application deployment and support while dramatically reducing development costs and easing deployment of applications by end customers.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Puts Out AIR for Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/534670.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/534670.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/534670_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company says Linux developers can use HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy to desktops across operating systems.]]></description></item><item><title>Likewise Practices Saying De Facto</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/529233.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/529233.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/529233_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Likewise Software, which some people may remember as Centeris, has revved its namesake cross-platform authentication software calling the latest thing Likewise Open Spring '08 - at least to the outside world. Inside they call it 4.1. Anyway the new cut, which integrates Linux, Unix and Mac systems with Microsoft's Active Directory, now supports something like 110 platforms, virtually all the non-Windows enterprise platforms there are, it says.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Releases Clusterware for Oracle Linux Support Customers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/528591.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/528591.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/528591_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Oracle announced that Oracle Unbreakable Linux support customers at the Basic and Premier support levels can download and deploy Oracle Clusterware at no additional license fee or support cost. Oracle Clusterware is portable cluster software that groups together individual servers so they can cooperate as a single system. A fundamental component of Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Clusterware can operate independently and helps ensure the protection of an application, Oracle or third-party.]]></description></item><item><title>Novell Sketches Out SLES 11</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/524585.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/524585.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/524585_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When the next generation of SUSE Linux arrives, and goodness knows when that will be - Novell doesn't even want to talk about an ETA until the end of this year - but it says that when it does get here one of its avatars will be as an appliance, supported by a new toolkit that builds specialized images.]]></description></item><item><title>QLogic Ships Virtual HBA Technology for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/524141.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/524141.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/524141_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[QLogic announced that it is the first HBA vendor to ship production ready N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) solution for a shipping Linux distribution. Enterprise Linux customers can now get NPIV-capable Fibre Channel HBAs for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the latest Linux platform from Novell that features enhancements in virtualization, high performance computing, security, interoperability and system management. QLogic series HBAs provide hardware-assist features that enable dynamic provisioning and flexible usage of HBA resources, helping IT managers to extend SAN best practices into virtualized data centers.]]></description></item><item><title>Western &amp; Southern Life Chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise From Novell</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522174.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522174.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522174_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Novell announced that Western & Southern Life has implemented SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell in each of its branch offices for 25 percent of the cost of an equivalent proprietary solution. With a flexible platform, the company can take advantage of open source applications to reduce software costs, such as proxy software which has increased caching speed by 50 percent. The company is also using Xen virtualization in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and plans to migrate many of its Sun Solaris applications to Linux.]]></description></item><item><title>Fujitsu Receives Novell YES Certification for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on Four LifeBook Series Notebooks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522373.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522373.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522373_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced that the Fujitsu LifeBook U810, LifeBook T2010, LifeBook P1620 ultra-portable convertible notebooks and the LifeBook S6510 thin and light notebook have been YES Certified by Novell. The certification means the notebooks have been tested for compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell.]]></description></item><item><title>Alcatel-Lucent to Integrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Realtime</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522254.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522254.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/522254_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Alcatel-Lucent and Red Hat will integrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Realtime technologies in Alcatel-Lucent communication products for small and medium enterprises (SME). The collaboration supports Alcatel-Lucent's Dynamic Enterprise commitment to interconnecting people, networks, process and knowledge in a flexible, open environment while helping Red Hat expand its business.]]></description></item><item><title>Start-up Offers Dirt Cheap Linux Provisioning</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/519656.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/519656.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/519656_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Standing on the IP remnants of the failed Open Country Linux systems management start-up, an outfit called LinMin came out of stealth mode the other day offering a dirt cheap, reportedly commercial-grade way of provisioning Linux on bare metal.]]></description></item><item><title>More Linux Apps Now Possible with Mono</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/519608.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/519608.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/519608_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Novell has sent out MonoDevelop 1.0, an open source Mono development tool that supports Microsoft Visual Studio project formats as well as C# and other programming languages. Using the thing, developers are supposed to be able to write desktop and ASP.NET web apps on Linux and Mac OS X quickly. It will also make it easier to port .NET apps created with Visual Studio to Linux and the Mac, maintaining a single code base of all three platforms.]]></description></item><item><title>PHP Fit for Windows</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514509.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514509.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514509_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Under its collaboration deal with Microsoft, Zend Technologies has certified Zend Core 2.5, its commercially supported version of PHP, on Windows Server 2008, and that's supposed to mean that high-performance web applications written in PHP should run as good on the Microsoft operating system now as on Linux or Unix, something that was never true before - even though most PHP development is done on Windows.]]></description></item><item><title>Linspire &amp; Fluendo Partner To Bring One-Click Multimedia Software To Desktop Linux Users</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/518644.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/518644.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/518644_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Linspire and Fluendo announced a partnership that will bring legal multimedia software to desktop Linux users worldwide. Now available and one-click accessible through CNR.com's software delivery service, Fluendo's multimedia software products are now available to Freespire 2.0, Linspire 6.0, Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 users and will soon expand to additional popular Linux distributions.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Joins Eastern Front Against Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514510.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514510.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514510_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM is lending at least its ODF-based Lotus Symphony software to another mission to rid the world of Windows PCs. According to a Reuters story Tuesday, IBM is part of an eastern front designed to supply Microsoft-free Linux-based PCs to Russia and perhaps other Eastern European markets.]]></description></item><item><title>Mainsoft Extends C++ Porting Platform to Support Intel Itanium 64-Bit Processor</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/518035.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/518035.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/518035_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mainsoft Corporation announced that its C++ application porting platform, Mainsoft for UNIX and Linux, Version 5.2 now supports five new platforms, including the Intel Itanium 64-bit processor.  Altogether, independent software vendors (ISVs) can now port Visual Studio applications to 21 UNIX and Linux platforms.]]></description></item><item><title>SCO Files Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514507.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514507.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/514507_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SCO filed a Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan and Disclosure Statement with the bankruptcy court in Delaware on Friday, a step on the company's path to emerging from the protective cover of bankruptcy, going private, and rejoining the fight over Linux. Pending court approval, the 63-page document says SCO is going to pay off all its qualified creditors in full on the plan's effective date - well, at least the ones that aren't counting on a windfall by way of litigation. It will also seat a new board and, possibly, enthrone a new CEO.]]></description></item><item><title>Avenda Systems Announces Release of NAP Agent for Linux and Universal System Health Agent</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/509292.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/509292.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/509292_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Avenda Systems announced two software releases that will enhance the adoption of Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP). The Avenda NAP Agent for Linux extends NAP to network endpoints running the Linux operating system. Network Access Protection (NAP) technology from Microsoft is a comprehensive infrastructure that allows system administrators to monitor and control end-point access to enterprise networks.]]></description></item><item><title>SCO&apos;s Baaaaack With $100m To Pursue Its Case Against Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/502009.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/502009.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/502009_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SCO's back from the grave with a doozy of a reorganization plan and $100 million to spend pursuing its legal case against Linux. This is top-drawer coin-of-the-realm kind of money put together from the deep-pockets of the Middle East by Stephen Norris, the co-founder and former president of the ultra-posh Carlyle Group, the guy who had Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud salvage Citibank on a cold call and turn a $15 billion profit on mere $590 million equity investment. After leaving Carlyle, whose chairman is now ironically ex-IBM CEO Lou Gerstner and whose resources, shall we say, include from time to time politicos like the Bushes, père et fils, and former prime ministers like John Major, Norris started Stephen Norris Capital Partners LLC, another chi-chi private equity firm that's done things like, oh, recapitalize Suez. It's Norris Capital Partners that'll be buying at least 51% of SCO and taking it private.]]></description></item><item><title>SCO Press Release</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/502096.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/502096.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/502096_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Not only will this deal position us to emerge from Chapter 11, but it also marks an exciting future for our business,' said Jeff Hunsaker, President and Chief Operating Officer of SCO Operations. 'This significant financial backing is positive news for SCO's customers, partners and resellers who continue to request upgrades and rely upon SCO's UNIX services to drive their business forward.']]></description></item><item><title>MontaVista and DataViz Team to Bring Documents To Go to Linux-based Mobile Devices</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501205.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501205.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501205_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[MontaVista Software and DataViz announced the availability of Documents To Go for the MontaVista Mobilinux 5.0 mobile operating system. As a result of the integration of the mobile office suite Documents To Go by DataViz with Mobilinux, mobile device users will be able to open and view Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint email attachments directly on their Linux-based mobile devices.]]></description></item><item><title>ACCESS Linux Platform Integrated with MontaVista Mobilinux to Accelerate Development of Smart Mobile Devices</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501206.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501206.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501206_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ACCESS and MontaVista Software reinforced their shared commitment to accelerate the development of smart mobile devices by releasing a pre-integrated software stack combining the ACCESS Linux Platform with the MontaVista Mobilinux operating system. ACCESS Linux Platform enables the creation of world-class mobile phones and wireless devices by providing a commercial-grade Linux platform designed for the worldwide mobile phone and converged device markets. MontaVista Mobilinux is the field-proven mobile operating system used in 90 percent of Linux-based smartphones.]]></description></item><item><title>3DLABS Introduces Linux 2.6.21 Developer Kit for its DMS-02</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501230.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501230.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501230_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[3DLABS Semiconductor announced the availability of its Linux 2.6.21 based Software Development Kit (SDK), bringing the latest open source innovations to developers and device makers using its DMS-02 processor to deliver unrivalled application and media processing performance within low power environments.]]></description></item><item><title>Arxan Technologies Announces Linux Support For Desktop, Server And Embedded Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501231.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501231.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/501231_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Arxan Technologies announced Linux platform coverage for its GuardIT product. Linux has made it a mainstream platform for desktop- and server-based applications as well as software within embedded devices. Fulfilling the need to protect Linux applications against piracy, reverse engineering and malware insertion, Arxan's GuardIT for Linux supports software applications across Linux desktop, server and embedded platforms.]]></description></item><item><title>Alfresco&apos;s Open Source Barometer Survey Reveals Ubuntu &amp; Red Hat Pulling Away in Linux-Based Operating System Deployments</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/500158.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/500158.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/500158_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Alfresco announced the availability of its second global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise. The Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey was conducted throughout 2007 using opt-in data provided by Alfresco's 35,000 community members and shows deployments of Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a market share of 24% and 21% respectively.]]></description></item><item><title>Linpus Launches Its Unique Dual-Mode User Interface Linux Operating System</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/500004.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/500004.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/500004_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Linpus Technologies will be demonstrating its brand new Linux operating system, Linpus Linux Lite, designed to empower the next billion PC customers. Linpus Linux Lite has a unique dual-mode user interface making it an easy way to start enjoying the opportunity of information. It also works on low cost hardware bringing the dream of buying a PC much closer for many people.]]></description></item><item><title>STMicroelectronics&apos; Nomadik Multimedia Processor Adds Linux and Complete Application Environment from Trolltech</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497963.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497963.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497963_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[STMicroelectronics expanded its Nomadik multimedia application processor ecosystem with the integration of Linux and Trolltech's Qtopia application environment in the STn8815 Nomadik engine. This platform provides equipment manufacturers with a complete reference design that facilitates fast development and customization of the latest generations of multimedia applications including smart phones, wireless PDAs, internet appliances and car entertainment systems.]]></description></item><item><title>SYSOPENDIGIA Contributes Source Code of its 3G Linux Smartphone to Open-Source</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497964.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497964.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497964_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SYSOPENDIGIA today announced that it will contribute to open-source the software created and modified for the 3G Linux smartphone. The SYSOPENDIGIA 3G Linux smartphone has been created using Linux operating system and other open-source software components, as well as commercially licensed Qtopia application platform and user interface from Trolltech.]]></description></item><item><title>Azingo Delivers Open Mobile Linux Solution for the Samsung Application Processor S3C2442</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497947.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497947.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/497947_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mobile Linux company, Azingo (formerly Celunite), announced an open mobile Linux solution for mobile phones and advanced mobile devices, based on the Samsung application processor S3C2442 and Azingo Mobile, Azingo's comprehensive mobile Linux platform software.]]></description></item><item><title>LA Metro Gets Up to Speed by Deploying Levanta&apos;s Intrepid Linux Data Center</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/496961.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/496961.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/496961_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Levanta announced that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, also known as LA Metro, has successfully deployed Levanta's Intrepid Linux Data Center Automation solution. LA Metro, which runs over 200 Metro Bus lines and four Metro Rail lines in Los Angeles, California, selected Levanta as part of their initiative to enhance the efficiency, agility and operational resiliency of their data center.]]></description></item><item><title>Novell Adds Mainframe Tool</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/495571.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/495571.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/495571_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Novell's got a new pre-built installation server that simplifies the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM's mainframes by using z/VM tools natively.  It's called the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System z and was developed for Novell by Sine Nomine Associates.]]></description></item><item><title>Embarcadero Debuts Linux-Based Change Management Tool</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/494579.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/494579.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/494579_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Embarcadero is introducing a new version of Change Manager that allows developers and database administrators (DBAs) to conduct high-speed data and database configuration comparisons from a Linux workstation. Change Manager for Linux runs on both Red Hat Enterprise 5.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. Embarcadero's Change Manager for Linux supports Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server databases.]]></description></item><item><title>Novell Makes it Easier to Start with Linux on IBM&apos;s System z Mainframe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/493341.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/493341.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/493341_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Novell announced the availability of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System z, a pre-built installation server that simplifies the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM's System z mainframes. The starter system eliminates the need for IT managers to search for network access to installation media on the mainframe. With the new Starter System for System z, customers can quickly initiate evaluations of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z.]]></description></item><item><title>The Evo-Cycle: Doing Software the Right Way - In 16 Stages</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/478362.htm</guid><link>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/478362.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://linux.sys-con.com/read/478362_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Software professionals usually take a great deal of pride in some combination of: Chasing and groking the latest software methodology/technology (e.g., AJAX, JPA, PMP, Spring JMS, Ruby, etc.) making them more marketable (and better positioned to pay their bills!). Creating software products and libraries (open source included) that can be reused (the DRY principle) by other technologists, Building and deploying software projects that are successfully used by their business customers.]]></description></item></channel></rss>