Even as Linux makes substantial inroads on the server side, observers ask if it will ever play a big role on client systems. While administrative software helpings were most plentiful on the plates at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo last week in New York City, client-side developments were somewhat sparse.
The SCO Group this week created a new business division dubbed SCOsource to manage the licensing of its Unix intellectual property assets and hired famed Microsoft prosecutor David
Boies to defend those assets.
Open-source software distributor Lindows.com is reaching out to schools with an unlimited licensing offer.
The bitter rivalry between Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. appears to be back in full force after several Apple moves disclosed by CEO Steve Jobs during last week's MacWorld conference in San Francisco.
Linux is coming to a camcorder near you -- and a TV, VCR and a ''smart'' microwave oven -- that is, if a new agreement between Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. to adapt the open-source operating system for consumer electronics bears fruit.
Three software companies -- OpenLink Software, Winfessor and Tipic -- recently weighed in with their support for Mono, an open-source implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
SCO Group has unveiled Version 7.1.3 of its UnixWare operating system software.
Collaboration requires a change in developer attitudes, but experts say an emerging union of open source and proprietary mindsets are making CIOs take notice.
Sun Microsystems' dance with, and around, the open-source software community may lead to new development platforms for developers.
IBM has updated WebSphere Studio to support Version 2.0 of the open-source Eclipse tools plug-in IDE, Version 1.3 of the J2EE standard and Version 1.4 of the Sun JDK.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy last week expanded on his company's recently announced plans to sell Linux-based PCs during a keynote address at the company's SunNetwork 2002 conference.
Last week, Fujitsu unveiled Linux implementations of its mainstay COBOL products.
The Eclipse consortium moved this week to expand on earlier IBM efforts with the creation of the Eclipse Technology Project, an open-source project that supports research, education and engineering initiatives undertaken to integrate multiple computing technologies using the so-called Eclipse Platform.
VA Software just inked a deal with IBM that could better position the company as an enterprise player in the software development market.
Since its failed plan to merge with Linux distro TurboLinux earlier this
year, San Francisco-based Linux services provider Linuxcare Inc. has been
quietly regrouping and aiming its efforts toward last week's unveiling of a new
tool for the provisioning and configuration of large-scale Linux deployments on
mainframe systems.