This week’s LinuxWorld is off to a flying start, with an acquisition and legal action making early headlines. Red Hat filed a complaint against The SCO Group, saying that SCO’s lawsuits over Linux have been “unfair and deceptive.” Meanwhile, Novell took another step on the road from NetWare to Linux by buying Linux management software vendor Ximian. And all this is happening against the backdrop of companies introducing Linux products and services. Red Hat fires back at SCO http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0804redhfires.html?net Novell buys Linux software maker Ximian http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0804ximian.html?net Vendors ready to showcase latest wares at LinuxWorld http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0804linux.html?net
This week’s LinuxWorld is off to a flying start, with an acquisition and legal action making early headlines. Red Hat filed a complaint against The SCO Group, saying that SCO’s lawsuits over Linux have been “unfair and deceptive.” Meanwhile, Novell took another step on the road from NetWare to Linux by buying Linux management software vendor Ximian. And all this is happening against the backdrop of companies introducing Linux products and services.
Red Hat fires back at SCO
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0804redhfires.html?net
Novell buys Linux software maker Ximian
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0804ximian.html?net
Vendors ready to showcase latest wares at LinuxWorld
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0804linux.html?net
Tech labor union to step up anti-offshore efforts
The U.S. is pushing a lot of its IT jobs overseas, a fact that should alarm IT folks around the country. Is this, as Gartner put it, an “irreversible trend”? The largest union for technical workers is hoping it’s not, and it’s stepping up lobbying efforts in Congress to reverse it.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0804techlabor.html?net
McData expands into low-end switching
Just as Brocade is expanding into the port-dense chassis-based switch market, rival McData is extending its reach downward this week into small and mid-size businesses with the introduction of a four- to 12-port Fibre Channel switch.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0804mcdata.html?net
Microsoft investigates DoS attack on Microsoft.com
Microsoft’s main Web site was unreachable for almost two hours on Friday as the Web server it is hosted on failed following a denial-of-service attack, the company said Friday.
