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Oracle Corp. recently announced a major Linux initiative in collaboration with Red Hat. The initiative is an enterprise application porting center christened LEAP. Oracle has been doing closed-door development on Linux for several years. Its development center in Bangalore, India has been involved in making Oracle software run on Linux since 1998.

IBM is offering "Derby," a copy of its current Cloudscape relational database product, to the ASF to spur more communal innovation for Java application development. By contributing the software to the open source community, IBM hopes to accelerate innovation around Java applications, which in turn will create new business opportunities based on a broad spectrum of applications, including those that use embedded databases and those for small businesses.

The LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards were managed in conjunction with LinuxWorld Magazine, and winners were selected by a panel of judges comprised of respected industry experts. Divided into 13 product categories, the awards represent major areas of innovation in the Linux and open source community.

Turbolinux Experienced a 51% Increase in Revenue and 69% Growth in Revenue Shipments in Japan Alone from 2002 to 2003

The Abstract User Interface Markup Language toolkit is an eclipse-based rapid-development tool to assist developers in writing GUIs to run as either Swing applications or on the Web.

Red Hat Application Server marks the first time a major Linux operating system vendor has announced its own J2EE application server.

Complementary System Management Software from Open Country and Legacy Red Hat Updates from Progeny Extend System Life Cycles while Reducing Costs

Hewlett-Packard plans on Tuesday to unveil a new Centrino laptop that comes preloaded with SuSE Linux, the first major laptop maker to make such an offer.

washingtonpost.com - Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to convince the general public that the Linux operating system is becoming more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld conference underway this week in San Francisco, there is finally a sure-fire sign that this may be the case: Microsoft won't be there.

Contest for Fastest Linux Deployment by System Administrators and Non-System Administrators Will Prove Ease-of-Use of Open Country's OC-Manager

SAN FRANCISCO--It's time for the United States to begin an era of economic sharing that will reduce resentment of the country and potentially mean a larger computer technology market for everyone, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said Tuesday.

LinuxWorld Conference& Expo opened this morning in San Francisco. Besides a slew of product announcements (see our NewsVac section) there's little to report yet beyond rumors and innuendo. In the interest of bringing you a complete picture of the show, here's some of the best tongue-wagging we've heard so far.

Welcome to this year's 30th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Debian's 11th birthday is near (August 16th), and, so several partis are planned. Pablo Lorenzzoni announced that the Brazilian Debian community have postponed the celebrations to August 21st. Holger Levsen invited all interested bodies to celebrate on Castle Hohenholz, 100 km north of Berlin and 30 km far away from Szczecin (Stettin).

BakBone Continues to Drive Enterprise-Level Support for Linux in the Data Center

- Novell exteNd 5.2 Provides End-to-end Linux Support From the Desktop to the Server - Including SUSE and Red Hat

- Novell to Ship JBoss Application Server With SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server and Novell exteNd

-- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 is first enterprise-class server to leverage 2.6 Linux kernel for powerful reliability and performance enhancements