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Though it is a tad late to the party, Sun Microsystems is slowly but surely making up for lost time by positioning itself closer to Linux and the open source community in general. The latest indication is the announcement the Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm made Thursday at LinuxWorld, when Sun introduced a new Java.net community for Linux developers with expanded support for Java-based development tools on both the Solaris and Windows platforms.

At Linux World Conference and Expo in New York at 10 a.m. on the show's first day, a milling throng filled the lobby of the Javits Center, waiting for the opening bell, as it were. It was a happy sight for Linux boosters, one that hasn't been seen since 2000 or 1999. While show organizer IDG doesn't have attendance figures ready for publication yet, my impression was that attendance was way up over the past few years' worth of LinuxWorlds. Exhibitors were out in force, too. While the show floor seemed to occupy no more square feet than last year, that is probably because while there were more exhibitors, the average booth size was smaller. But those booths were, for the most part, active all day.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As never before, corporate customers are turning to Linux software instead of Microsoft Windows to run big business operations.

to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.” That’s Darl McBride, president and CEO of the SCO Group SCO Exec: Yes Mr. Congressman the GPL and Linux are a threat to National

MozillaPL Team (http://mozillapl.org/) has released its own Polish(ed) distribution based on latest Mozilla 1.6 code. The most important changes are:

Galileo Vidoni writes: "Six days after the official 1.6 release, the main Spanish Mozilla localization team, NAVE, have released Spanish versions of the suite.

Marcia Knous writes in "The Mozilla Foundation is making plans to host a Developer Day in the very near future. The event will be of the suite.

on Linux? I don't think so, primarily [because of] the licensing model with which Linux is provided, the GNU Public Licence. As

dollars. SFU is free as in no cost free. The source is closed but Microsoft does include some GNU tools with this package. For those

MySQL AB, the maker of the popular MySQL open-source database, on Wednesday introduced a graphical interface-based administration tool for managing multiple

The SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 has recieved EAL3 Certification. This is a step up from their previous accomplishment of EAL2

and Novell Inc.’s new SuSE Linux division have reached a higher level of international Common Criteria security certification for SuSE Linux Enterprise

While something like PostgreSQL or Berkeley DB are straight democracies," he explained, "MySQL -- and JBoss, to an extent -- are more akin to representative

NEW DELHI: In a couple of months, Red Hat is rolling out a Hindi version of the Linux operating system in India. Red Hat Inc chief

RALEIGH – Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering at Red Hat, has been elected to the board for the ObjectWeb Open Source Consortium. has blossomed into one of the most popular women's groups. It's the Red

Novell, Messman noted, is a billion-dollar company that's wagering its future on open source, with the acquisitions in the past year of Ximian and SuSE. this week by both LinuxWorld Magazine and Open Source World Magazine as

In his LinuxWorld keynote, Novell CEO Jack Messman sounded very much like a believer in the open-source way as he prepares to transform Novell into not just a

Each magazine issue will feature the latest version of the Fedora project for subscribers to have access to current Linux technologies under development.

According to Red Hat, each issue will feature the latest version of the Fedora project, enabling subscribers to have access to current Linux technologies under

NEW YORK & RAMAT GAN, Israel -- MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, and Zend Technologies, designers of the PHP Web scripting