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Customers happy with Red Hat/JBoss connection – LinuxWorld, 03/28/07
In April of 2006, Red Hat acquired open-source J2EE application server vendor JBoss for $420 million. According to previous reports, Oracle was interested in buying JBoss earlier that year for more money, but Red Hat beat them to the punch. Nearly one year later, customers seem to like the results: a single subscription that includes both companies’ products.
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Dell promises Linux on notebooks and desktops – LinuxWorld, 03/28/07
Thanks to requests by its customers, Dell Inc. is going to start offering Linux pre-installed on its PCs and notebooks, the company said Wednesday.
GPLv3 third draft: Linus likes it, ACT hates it – LinuxWorld, 03/28/07
Initial reactions to the latest proposed draft of a popular license for free and open-source software (FOSS) have been wide-ranging, with the changes winning some kind words from the creator of Linux and a critical bashing from an industry association.
HP offers SMBs AMD-based server at PC price – LinuxWorld, 03/28/07
HP on Wednesday announced a dozen new products and services aimed at small and midsize businesses, including an Advanced Micro Devices-based server priced less than $500.
Latest GPLv3 takes hard line on MS, Novell deal – LinuxWorld, 03/28/07
The Free Software Foundation Wednesday released the penultimate draft of its planned third version of a popular license for free and open-source software, the GNU general public license (GPL).
Sun exec aims to close Solaris ‘usability gap’ – LinuxWorld, 03/28/07
Ian Murdock says he drew a lot of puzzled looks from his colleagues in the Linux community when he joined Sun Microsystems Inc. in its newly created position of chief operating platforms officer. “What’s a Linux guy doing at Sun?” he was asked.
Critical bugs plague StarOffice, OpenOffice suites – LinuxWorld, 03/27/07
Bugs in Sun’s StarOffice and OpenOffice.org’s OpenOffice application suites allow attackers to snatch control of a computer by serving up malicious documents or URLs, the two organizations said Monday.
Samsung to ship higher capacity solid state disk drive – LinuxWorld, 03/27/07
Samsung Electronics plans to begin shipping a solid-state disk drive with double the capacity of its current highest-capacity drive in the second quarter of this year, it said Tuesday.
Sun’s storage head to run new business unit – LinuxWorld, 03/27/07
Sun Tuesday named David Yen, who currently heads the company’s storage division, to run a newly created business to develop microelectronics to sell globally.
Reinvigorated Java IDEs change the development landscape – LinuxWorld, 03/27/07
Java IDEs are one of the most-used app dev tools in corporate development. They are also among the most capable developer products on the market. With that in mind, it’s time to ask yourself: Are you using the Java IDE best suited to your needs?
Ruby luster readied for Java – LinuxWorld, 03/27/07
Engineers at Sun are eyeing May for the release of a 1.0 version of JRuby , which provides a Java implementation of the Ruby language.
Windows-to-Linux desktop strategies – LinuxWorld, 03/26/07
With questions and uncertainty about Microsoft’s Vista, and the emergence of new Novell and Red Hat desktops, the buzz has never been louder regarding Linux as an alternative client operating system for enterprises.
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Free driver offer makes sense to hardware companies: Greg Kroah-Hartman, 03/28/07Listen to the podcast.
In January, Linux developer and author Greg Kroah-Hartman offered a free Linux device driver to any vendor willing to provide hardware documentation. The result? One driver in the standard Linux tree already, ten more in the pipe, and seventy developers willing to help with more.
