"Having called Linux and open source software a cancer, un-American, and bankrupt, Microsoft now plans to focus on facts instead of emotions, the company's competitive strategist said Thursday..."
"Sun Microsystems signed a deal Thursday to incorporate SuSE's version of the Linux operating system in its servers, the company's second step in moving beyond its own version of Linux..."
"A denial-of-service attack rendered Microsoft's corporate Web site inaccessible for more than an hour on Friday afternoon, amid heightened fears that a major Internet attack could be on the horizon..."
"IBM Corp. has a challenger in the race to deliver the world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer. A day after the U.S. company said it had received an order for what stands to be the fastest such machine, Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. has announced an order for a faster machine that it expects to put into service at about the same time..."
"Sun will preinstall SuSE Linux's Enterprise Server 8 on its x86 hardware systems; SuSE becomes a Java 2 Standard Edition licensee and will distribute Sun's JVM..."
"The current legal brouhaha between IBM and The SCO Group is not preventing Big Blue from moving forward with its Linux product offerings, support and services..."
"Sun Microsystems has released an update to its Solaris operating system that incorporates, for the first time, the Gnome open-source graphical interface..."
"An IBM executive has claimed that a "set of forces" is attempting to derail Linux, and hinted that Microsoft and SCO Group are among those responsible..."
"The SCO war might go down as the first Open Source lawsuit, in a couple of senses. First, because the GNU General Public License, or GPL, might be legally tested for the first time. Secondly, SCO has probably sealed its defeat by ticking off many intelligent Open Source users..."
"IBM has launched a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product..."
"A summary of the major variants of Unix currently available has been published by The Jem Report. I find it interesting because it makes a factual, objective case for the proposition that any CIO is daft, throwing money at inferior software, if they pay for SCO Unix..."
"One important section of the Linux market, large companies, so far don't seem fazed by SCO Group's warnings that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property, according to a study released Thursday..."
"The Open Source Development Lab, a group dedicated to building high-end features into Linux, has taken its first step in a plan to expand its membership beyond the computing industry..."
"A lower-cost linux-based alternative to expensive SANs was unveiled by self-described Linux "kernel hacker" Ben LaHaise at the Ottawa Linux Symposium..."
"IBM on Wednesday announced the general availability of a software toolkit developers can use to build speech-recognition and other "multimodal" applications for Linux computers..."
"Red Hat released a new test version of its Linux operating system on Monday along with a new development process that's designed to include outside programmers..."