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In the jungle, the mighty IT jungle, the Linux deer sleeps tonight - with the IBM elephant, the HP lion, the Sun tiger and now the Oracle gorilla. Poor deer, she couldn't say no; after all, she was born to be Open and Free.

Hewlett-Packard this week announced a breakthrough file sharing product that uses new Linux clustering technology to deliver up to 100 times more bandwidth than typical clusters. The new product, HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), is a self-contained file server that enables bandwidth to be shared by distributing files in parallel across clusters of industry-standard server and storage components.

Red Hat, which is at the vanguard of the global open source movement, is floating a wholly-owned Indian subsidiary to step up mass localisation of Linux operating systems.

BEA Systems Inc.'s Project Beehive will get a boost next Monday when the company announces at JavaOne that the Eclipse organization is working on a"top level" project that will support the product, according to sources.

With IT biggies throwing their weight behind Linux– and a host of smaller players creating products and providing support services for this OS–SMBs may have found just what they were hankering after, says Srikanth R P

D-Link India Ltd. has developed low-cost, Linux-based networking equipment such as routers and firewalls, and VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phones, specially designed for the requirements of emerging economies, according to an executive of the company.

This whitepaper from esteemed Linux author and TimeSys Product Manager William von Hagen describes the use of Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), examines specific tasks in the embedded system and application development cycles, and discusses ways in which tools from Linux software vendors such as TimeSys provide powerful, flexible solutions to general problems. Enjoy! . . .

Purchasing open source software provided by commercial companies is a good thing and installing it on more systems to reduce licensing costs is unethical, according to St George Bank’s chief manager of open systems Michael Page.

Microsoft Corp. says it is looking to turn over more of its programs to open-source software developers, playing a greater role in a process that the Redmond company has criticized strongly at times in the past.

Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) -- an open source software framework being developed by the Open Source Development Labs to support high-availability, fast-to-market solutions for major telecommunications and other companies -- is taking considerable time to penetrate the slow-moving carrier market, but it is also gaining ground in vertical segments such as financial services, according to analysts attending this week's SuperComm telecom conference in Chicago.

JDesktop Network Components (JDNC) has been released by Sun as an open source project, so that the technology is available to the community early enough to allow it to directly shape the vision, the feature set, and even the code. "There is still a lot of work to do," says Sun's Amy Fowler, "the JDNC feature set is far from complete and there remain rough edges, especially in the API, which has not had extensive usage outside of unit testing and markup-driven use-cases. But, that is exactly why we need your involvement."

Microsoft's server division expects to release a beta version of Windows Server 2003 tailor-made for the high performance computing (HPC) market by year's end, Microsoft said, but failed to clarify whether either Intel or AMD's top-end 64-bit processors would be supported. It spearheads an attack on a market where Unix and Linux are firmly entrenched.

Business rules software vendor Ilog has introduced a new business rules studio for the Eclipse open source integrated development environment (IDE). Based on its business rules management product Ilog JRules, Business Rule Studio Developer Edition is available as a free download. It is built on the Eclipse IDE for easier management, optimisation and visualisation of the rules that govern business processes in Java-based software.

A group of Iraqi computer enthusiasts are advocating the use of the operating system Linux to rebuild their country.

Oracle and Red Hat hope to make Singapore the regional 'port of call' for all things Linux. The two firms today announced they will invest $11.6m in a new Linux applications centre on the island-state to ramp up Linux certification among independent software vendors (ISVs) in the ASEAN region.

In my review of Sun Java Desktop System release 2 I criticized Sun Microsystems for imposing such restrictive licensing terms on their customers. A discussion on Groklaw followed, and Sun contacted me to discuss the license and how it might modify it in the future. I had several suggestions, and overall they were happy to have the feedback and eager to make their future license agreements more user friendly. But proprietary thinking dies hard. Will Sun really reduce the restrictions in its licenses?

A group of Iraqi computer enthusiasts are promoting the use of the operating system Linux to rebuild their country. Ashraf Hasson is one of the founders of the Iraqi Linux User Group and he is also leading Linux seminars at a couple of Iraq's larger universities.