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IBM Corp. has found a new home for the Cloudscape database software it picked up in 2001 through its acquisition of Informix Corp. The company plans to announce Tuesday that it will give Cloudscape to the Apache Software Foundation, which will oversee Cloudscape as an open-source project.

Trolltech today announced that Linux is the most popular platform for new application development on the desktop, according to an April, 2004 survey of 1,300 Trolltech software developers.

They say Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz must be getting"his hand slapped by the board" for hinting that the company might acquire Novell in order to undermine IBM's Linux strategy; Sun insiders say he's been using comments to the media to push his agenda.

RealNetworks updates player for Linux RealNetworks released audio and video playback software for use with the Linux operating system. The Seattle-based company made available both the Helix Player--which works with open formats such as Ogg Vorbis--and the RealPlayer 10 for Linux, which is based on Helix software but also plays RealAudio, MP3 and other proprietary formats.

Red Hat, Inc. today announced a partnership with Black Duck Software, a leading provider of information services that enable vendors and enterprises to manage software intellectual property (IP). The companies will work together to help software developers and companies using Linux and open source software to mitigate the risks associated with software development and management of their intellectual property. This announcement is the latest milestone in Red Hat's Open Source Assurance program, a plan for protecting open source developers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers.

DEFCON 12, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- The week-long Defcon 12 and Blackhat Briefings ended Sunday. Taking center stage in our final report are Google, a video history of bulletin board systems, a healthy dose of "lessons not learned" by our federal bureaucracy, anarchy, and the threat of physical violence. If you missed the earlier reports from these security conferences, you might want to read these: Blackhat Briefings: Forget the borders, guard the goodies, Blackhat Briefings: Hacker Court 2004, Blackhat Briefings: It's the stupidity, stupid, and DefCon 12: Opening Day.

Sugar.Sales represents a new generation of commercial grade CRM applications built for and optimized to run on a pure Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) open source software platform. Made available under an open source software license

Setting up diskless clients for use in classrooms and local businesses.

In one race to sell 64-bit x86 chips to high-performance computing customers, Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices both won.

Now Microsoft is enforcing its patent for a long filename version of the FAT (file allocation table) version of its disk data format. Microsoft wants the Linux folks to stop using it. The company might opt for a license, but, golly, because of the GPL, it can't without getting itself into trouble. So stop using it!

Oracle executive vice president Mike Rocha will have a lot to brag about when he gets up to give his LinuxWorld keynote Tuesday in San Francisco. First, the database giant saw its Linux market share blossom in 2003, growing at a rate of 361 percent.

Developers of Web services and enterprise applications must make their software secure. While cryptography alone does not a secure system make, it's important for developers to have a firm grasp of the basic theory and technologies behind encryption, so they can make informed decisions about whether to apply cryptographic technology, and if so, how.

No doubt, the attendees at the SCO Forum conference here and at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco couldn't be father apart in their viewpoints of Unix operating systems. But when it comes to the notion of Sun Microsystems Inc. buying Novell Inc., they appeared to have one reaction in common: disbelief.

The release of Gentoo Linux 2004.2, the first anniversary of BugDay, and a call for German GWN translators headline this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter. You'll also find updates on the Desktop, Documentation, and Gentoo-Hardened projects, security updates, and community coverage. Enjoy!

Although iTunes and Linux have been pursuing solo careers, one small software maker hopes to get them to make music together.

BEA Takes Top Position in Linux-Based Application Server Market and Gains Additional Endorsements for Open Source Projects; BEA CEO Alfred Chuang to Keynote

Netline Internet Service, a small German company whose server software was an important part of SuSE Linux's product line, has made its products open source.

RealPlayer continues momentum towards becoming the standard for audio and video delivery and playback on Linux desktops

Sun will demonstrate a new version of its SunRay thin-client computing technology for Linux at this week's LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, and announce the release of its C, C++ and Fortran development tools for Linux.