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In March of 2004 we posted 726 stories (security alerts were not counted). Here are the biggest newsmakers of the month, along with the most interesting story posted about them during that time.
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David Mohring (Mar 12, 2004 3:58 PM)
An open letter to antitrust, competition, consumer and trade practice monitoring agency officials worldwide.
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Press release (Mar 24, 2004 9:26 AM)
IBM to Purchase $50 Million in Novell Convertible Preferred Shares
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Press release (Mar 9, 2004 8:54 AM)
Industry Leaders Rally to Support Linux on the Desktop with Novell and Other Major Tech Companies Tripling Number of Sponsors
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IBM: 48 stories
Press release (Mar 24, 2004 9:26 AM)
IBM to Purchase $50 Million in Novell Convertible Preferred Shares
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Press release (Mar 17, 2004 5:08 PM)
The pace of the Linux kernel development has more than doubled since Linus Torvalds switched to the BitKeeper source management system 2 years ago.
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Houston Chronicle (Mar 13, 2004 1:39 PM)
I've been using Firefox for several months, beginning with earlier releases under the name Firebird. Here's how good it is: If it weren't for incompatibilities with some Web pages designed only for Internet Explorer, I'd probably use this as my only Web browser.
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PHP: 29 stories
InfoWorld (Mar 13, 2004 9:39 AM)
In 2000, the U.S. General Accounting Office(GAO) developed its own Web-based survey application using a combination of the open source PHP scripting language and the commercial C language. The GAO chose PHP over Java for a couple of reasons, not the least of which was security.
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GNU: 28 stories
David Mohring (Mar 12, 2004 3:58 PM)
An open letter to antitrust, competition, consumer and trade practice monitoring agency officials worldwide.
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Sun: 27 stories
Dave Whitinger (Mar 22, 2004 2:01 PM)
Less than an hour ago, during Scott McNealy's keynote speech at CTIA, his machine that was running Java Desktop froze up in view of the entire room.
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SUSE: 25 stories
Press release (Mar 24, 2004 9:26 AM)
IBM to Purchase $50 Million in Novell Convertible Preferred Shares
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HP: 22 stories
Press release (Mar 16, 2004 9:59 AM)
Open Source and Software Industry Experts Endorse Dual-License as Good for Business -- Three Companies Show Average of 65% Revenue Growth in 2003.
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SCO: 21 stories
David Mohring (Mar 12, 2004 3:58 PM)
An open letter to antitrust, competition, consumer and trade practice monitoring agency officials worldwide.
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KDE: 20 stories
Press release (Mar 9, 2004 8:54 AM)
Industry Leaders Rally to Support Linux on the Desktop with Novell and Other Major Tech Companies Tripling Number of Sponsors
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Mailing list (Mar 29, 2004 11:40 AM)
[Editor's note: winner of the funniest Red Hat announcement yet. :) ]
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MySQL: 19 stories
Press release (Mar 29, 2004 1:22 PM)
Leading Telecommunications and Networking Companies Use MySQL for High Performance, Reliable Data Management and Low Total Cost...Alcatel, Cox Communications and Siemens Among Growing Number of MySQL Telecom and Networking Customers.
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Press release (Mar 4, 2004 12:43 PM)
Mandrakesoft is proud to announce that its new flagship operating system 'Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community' has been released. 10.0 Community is the first major Linux distribution to take advantage of the new Linux kernel 2.6 while providing one of the most easy to use and attractive Linux operating systems ever.
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Press release (Mar 9, 2004 8:54 AM)
Industry Leaders Rally to Support Linux on the Desktop with Novell and Other Major Tech Companies Tripling Number of Sponsors
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Press release (Mar 9, 2004 8:54 AM)
Industry Leaders Rally to Support Linux on the Desktop with Novell and Other Major Tech Companies Tripling Number of Sponsors
[ Full story | Read more ]
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Press release (Mar 24, 2004 9:26 AM)
IBM to Purchase $50 Million in Novell Convertible Preferred Shares
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Dave Whitinger (Mar 22, 2004 1:07 PM)
This long-term Red Hat Linux user has given an honest look at Gentoo, and has concluded that the stereotypes surrounding this distribution are false. After all these years, I have finally found my new distribution: Gentoo Linux.
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CXOtoday.com (Mar 8, 2004 12:34 PM)
Speaking to CXOtoday, L. Gopalakrishnan, Director-Platform Technologies Group, Oracle India, said, “Enterprises commonly gain anywhere between 20-30% in terms of cost benefits on using Linux. Migration from Unix to Linux is simpler, as skills are easily transferable. Currently, we always offer our customers a Linux option, without which a database strategy is incomplete.”
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GNOME: 8 stories
Mailing list (Mar 30, 2004 6:24 PM)
Welcome to this year's 13th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. The next update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is being prepared together with a discussion about the Linux Standard Base. Manoj Srivastava called for votes on the project leader election a second time. Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on April 10th. Two US states proposed an open source repository that would run on a Debian server.
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OSDL: 7 stories
Press release (Mar 10, 2004 8:29 AM)
Developer of 'Nature's Linux' Operating System and Datacenter Management Solution to Work With OSDL in Advancing Linux in Japanese Markets
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LPI: 6 stories
Kara Pritchard (Mar 13, 2004 3:14 PM)
[ Editor's note: LPI is a successful Linux certification organization because their roots are deep in this community. They were founded by members of the community, and their exams have always been developed in the open. This afternoon they put out a request for assistance in developing some upcoming exams. This is your chance take a part in creating the LPI certifications. ]
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