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OSDL and FSG merge to form Linux Foundation
(Electronic News) _ The industry's two leading groups promoting the Windows-rivaling Linux operating system, the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)
http://www.osdl.orghttp://www.freestandards.org, have inked an agreement to merge and form The Linux Foundation
http://www.linux-foundation.org.
The new consortium boasts a star-studded lineup: founding members of the Linux Foundation include Fujitsu
http://www.fujitsu.com, Hitachi
http://www.hitachi.com, HP
http://www.hp.com, IBM
http://www.ibm.com, Intel
http://www.intel.com, NEC
http://www.necel.com, Novell
http://www.novell.com, and Oracle
http://www.oracle.com. Jim Zemlin, former executive director of the Free Standards Group, is set to lead The Linux Foundation.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Monday, January 22 2007 @ 18:19:38 EST (693 reads)
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Group Formed to Support Linux as Rival to Windows
Linux, the free operating system, has gone from an intriguing
experiment to a mainstream technology in corporate data centers, helped
by the backing of major technology companies like I.B.M., Intel and Hewlett-Packard, which sponsored industry consortiums to promote its adoption.
Those
same companies have decided that the time has come to consolidate their
collaborative support into a new group, the Linux Foundation, which is
being announced today. And the mission of the new organization is help
Linux, the leading example of the open-source model of software
development, to compete more effectively against Microsoft, the world’s largest software company.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 20:47:24 EST (379 reads)
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Don't be fooled, M$ wants to KILL LINUX!
By Eric Miller
Is it just me or does this pact between Microsoft and Novell not come as a surprise? We have seen the tactics and techniques Microsoft uses to devour it's perceived enemies.The pact is just another phase in the Microsoft's answer to the Linux question.
This is what we know so far. Microsoft funded SCO in their futile legal attempts against Linux using companies.One company in particular, Novell, was thrown in there as their "Ace in the hole". After they realized the SCO movement was going to fail (fail miserably) they pull their "ace". Or maybe a better term would be they have changed tactics. They buy Novell and have that nut job Steve Ballmer spew unfounded Intellectual Property propaganda. Why? How could M$ benefit from his rants? Reaction! He wanted to see how the Linux community would react so they could adjust their tactics once again.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, January 04 2007 @ 07:51:46 EST (591 reads)
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Linux Tackles Old Foes With New Tools
Linux users have much to look forward to in 2007, beginning with the end of the SCO saga, which has raged on since 2003. The year will also mark the birth of a new GPL and
a new flagship enterprise Linux distribution from the current enterprise
Linux leader, Red Hat.
Put
this together amid the release of Microsoft Windows Vista, the
company's new operating system, and open and closed source developers
are in for a big year.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Friday, December 29 2006 @ 10:33:36 EST (566 reads)
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How good a friend to open source is Google?
The question of how good Google is to open source has come up again, in a good way.
When Jeremy Allison of Samba fell out with Novell over its Microsoft deal recently, he fell into Google's loving arms. He
will keep doing exactly what he was doing, working on Samba, but he'll
have a Google hat on when he speaks and he will cash a Google paycheck.
Google has done this for many other people in the open source movement. Google runs Linux. Google has its own open source code base.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, December 28 2006 @ 08:32:22 EST (939 reads)
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I remain to be conviced
Posted by: PSVDavey (Saturday 23 December 2006, 12:28 PM)
In your position you obviously know your onions, so I was expecting
a detailed and reasoned piece. However, you dealt with the subject
matter in your first paragraph and your assertions were (1) that
interoperability will be improved and (2) that Microsoft's
"endorsement" will be good for Linux.
I have reservations about both.
(1) Microsoft and Novell have pledged to work together to improve
integration. If we're talking about virtualisation, then I don't quite
see the point - I've seen Linux and Windows working perfectly
seamlessly under VMware more than two years ago. Xen will presumable
get Windows running well under Linux real soon now; and that leaves
running Linux under Windows server. Well that will be a neat trick, no
doubt, but I'm not sure why commercially anyone would want to do it.
Why pay out for a Windows licence in order to run Linux?
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Posted by linuxwiz on Sunday, December 24 2006 @ 10:03:59 EST (611 reads)
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Red Hat: What me worry?
When Red Hat holds court with financial analysts later today to
discuss the company's fiscal third quarter results the conversation is
likely to go like this:
Analyst: What is the impact on Oracle's Unbreakable Linux on your business? How can you compete?
Red Hat exec: We're not seeing any direct threat. Billings are looking up.
Analyst: What about this Microsoft-Novell partnership?
Red Hat exec: Can't we talk about our quarter just a little here?
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Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, December 21 2006 @ 13:54:49 EST (614 reads)
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Debate over document formats not just academic
Use of
vendor-made ‘standards' has led to situations in which users can't
access their own files because they don't have the tools anymore.
It's certainly an understatement to suggest that
open source dominated most of the IT headlines in the last month or
two. Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Adobe, Sun and Red Hat have all had
something substantial to say recently regarding their visions of open
source's future. To be sure, most of the announcements represent some
kind of assertion of power, an attempt to be a player influencing the
direction of open source growth. Most want to ensure that the growth of
openness is guided or narrowed in one way or the other. Each wants to
make sure that their particular imprint on the way Linux and friends
are developed and distributed takes hold.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Wednesday, December 20 2006 @ 09:44:52 EST (1574 reads)
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Microsoft, Novell and Echoes of SCO
Microsoft is giving away 70,000 coupons for SLES to customers who want
to run Windows and Linux together. These are "stay out of court free"
cards that hope to derail customers' existing relationships with other
commercial Linux vendors. It's a quick rise to prominence for Novell
while its competitors run for cover.
Among huge companies, closely held backroom deals are the norm. Putting aside fear of litigation, Novell and Microsoft made such a deal and went public with it. They set up open source players, although consumers of open source never quite got past their fear of abandonment.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Saturday, December 16 2006 @ 08:09:35 EST (1990 reads)
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Survey Says: Web Infrastructure and the Last Big Microsoft OS
Gartner released a number of predictions for 2007 on Wednesday with
the biggest being that Vista will be Microsoft's last major release of
the Windows operating system.
Normally, I view such speculation with a healthy dose of skepticism
but two things happened this week to make me think that maybe this
prediction is more right than wrong.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, December 14 2006 @ 15:54:11 EST (578 reads)
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Red Hat: Customers are not afraid of Microsoft
Red Hat has had something of a bumpy ride in the last two months.
First, Oracle launched a competitive threat to the open-source supplier, then Microsoft inked a deal with Linux distributor Novell.
As right-hand man to Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik, Alex Pinchev
has access to a lot of the strategic insights afforded to his boss, but
is unencumbered by the diplomatic restraints placed on the chief
executive. Pinchev, executive vice president of worldwide sales, speaks
his mind.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, December 14 2006 @ 10:37:48 EST (558 reads)
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Friend or Foe?
Strange partnerships are being forged and broken as heavyweights
slug it out in the Linux world. A snapshot of the action and the
motives driving the duels.
Strange bedfellows and even stranger foes. That would aptly
describe the partnerships forged recently in the Linux world, and the
sense of competition heating up in what is seen as a business
opportunity.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Wednesday, December 13 2006 @ 10:24:59 EST (1443 reads)
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Mission Accomplished: Do We Need the New OSDL?
Anonymous writes "Since 2000, the non-profit Open Source Development Lab has been a
champion of Linux and Open Source in enterprise environments. Primarily
an engineering-focused organization, the consortium is generally
regarded as a boon to the Open Source community and a positive force in
the mainstreaming of OSS."
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Posted by linuxwiz on Friday, December 08 2006 @ 16:06:22 EST (454 reads)
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Top 5 myths about the Microsoft-Novell deal
Novell's actions are part of a conspiracy
Novell/SUSE/Ximian is too big and diverse of a company to pull off a
conspiracy successfully. And everyone I know there is down with one
variant or other of the software freedom plan. There probably aren't
enough potential conspirators there to pull off one working program,
much less a whole distribution.
The inner circle that negotiated the deal did a really bad job of
getting consensus internally, and that's not just a matter of
communications -- they completely seem to have expected that people who
voluntarily apply the GPL to their software would be happy with a
weaselly attempt to evade the GPL's spirit. (All I can think is that to
sales guys the Deal is more important than the Rules, and the inner
circle lumped the GPL under Rules, which can be bent to make the Deal,
while to the stakeholders, the GPL still falls in the Deal category.)
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Posted by linuxwiz on Tuesday, December 05 2006 @ 21:05:03 EST (299 reads)
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