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With the news of its first big government deal, Indian Linux vendor ELX has come a bit closer to meeting its sales goal of 100,000 seats of its desktop Linux product BizDesk 4.0 this financial year. "An Indian state court project has asked vendors to supply 600 PCs with ELX Biz Desk 4.0 preloaded in...

A Michigan judge has dismissed the SCO Group's lawsuit against automobile maker DaimlerChrysler. DaimlerChrysler had brought several motions for summary disposition in the case, and Michigan Circuit Court Judge Rae Lee Chabot ruled Wednesday in favor of all but one of them. The exception concerns th...

Hewlett-Packard has issued a statement calling a two-year-old internal memo that has been circulating on the Internet and raises fears that Microsoft would mount a litigation campaign to "shut down open-source software" now outdated and irrelevant. The memo dated June 3, 2002, a copy of which was ob...

Several weeks ago we were visiting my mother in law in Victoria, B.C., just across the strait from Port Angeles and close enough to Seattle to share some of its rain. She's proud of her Scottish heritage and rejoices in her ancestral stereotype when it comes to parting with a nickel. I was surprised...

At the Rational Software Development User Conference yesterday, IBM revealed its plans for new capabilities expected to be available in the IBM Software Development Platform by the end of 2004. According to the company, the new software development technologies will help organizations automate their...

Linux Networx today announced that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has chosen the company for implementation of a Linux-based cluster computing system. The system, an Evolocity II Linux Networx cluster, will be used to evaluate the suitability of cluster technology for broader...

Last week, I examined the nuances of a marketplace for licenses, and its relationship to a parallel marketplace for products that use those licenses. This time, for those readers who might actually be in the market for a license, let's review the one that gets the most ink -- the General Public Lice...

With Linux implementation in full swing in Europe, many analysts are now turning their attention toward growth in Asia, one of the largest markets yet to be dominated by a single vendor. Andrew Chetham, an analyst in Gartner's Hong Kong office, told LinuxInsider that the market in China is especiall...

A federal judge in Nevada has granted AutoZone's request to put SCO Group's copyright infringement case over the auto parts retailer's switch from Unix to Linux on hold. The auto parts retailer had asked the federal court in Nevada to stay the case until SCO's other, related lawsuits against IBM an...

Former Red Hat and Cygnus Solutions executives Kim Knuttila and Eric Troan announced yesterday that they had formed Specifix, an open-source company producing Linux solutions. The new company brings together other executives and experts from the Linux and GNU open-source development tools communitie...

Red Hat has put its investors through a roller-coaster ride this summer, and the ride just took a major drop in recent days, as bad news hit the markets. The company announced that it would be restating its results due to new accounting policies, and also told analysts that the SEC had launched an i...

My wife has a Dilbert cartoon on her office door in which one of the characters says: "If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how." She's a Mac user and they were worse even before they all became Unix users too. Or maybe not. But finding out whether the average...

This week, IBM introduced the new eServer p5 systems, a line of Unix and Linux servers that use Power 5 microprocessors and Micro-Partitioning, an IBM Virtualization Engine technology. According to IBM, the new eServer p5 systems are the result of a large-scale, three-year research and development e...

The French Ministry of Equipment will be migrating to Linux, replacing 1,500 office and infrastructure Microsoft Windows NT servers with Mandrakelinux Corporate servers. Mandrakesoft, a top European Linux player, also was chosen for deployment, training and support for the Linux strategy. Mandrakeso...

When J.S.G. Boggs needs money, he draws it. He draws one side of a banknote on high-quality paper, actual size, and presents it to the merchant. The merchant, knowing that the banknote is not official, can accept it or ask for real cash. If the merchant accepts it, Boggs writes the details of the tr...