[newsforge daily] April 09, 2003

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April 09, 2003

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Ellison an oracle for open source?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2129211

• Lee Schlesinger - Larry Ellison is putting his money on open source development. Over the last couple of weeks headlines quoting Oracle Corp.'s chief executive officer have included "Oracle ups Linux efforts with ISV program" and "Linux will wipe Microsoft out of data center." What's his rationale?

Report from the first Oregon open source hearing http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/1630253

• By Doug Dingus - 3 April 2003 - It was an early morning, uneventful drive to the State Capitol building in Salem, Oregon. Upon arrival, I found the staff pleasant and efficient. All I had to say to the woman at the information desk was "Open Source." Her reply was swift and on target: "Down the hall, turn right, continue past the green carpet. It's on the left."

There may never be another software billionaire http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2125237

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - We often forget that that idea of software as a boxed, mass-market, proprietary product is only about 30 years old. During these three decades, the software industry has made a number of individuals wealthy. But this era may be over. The future of software may not have room for new billionaires, even though there is a growing demand for new software, and opportunities for people who write that software will continue ...

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Oracle executive: Linux is not a homemade television http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0353254

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    Michael S. Mimoso writes "NEW YORK -- Oracle Linux executive Dave Dargo     told attendees of the Linux on Wall Street Conference on Monday that IT     needs to start treating Linux as an enterprise product. We need to stop     looking at Linux as a starting point -- as a Heathkit, a box of bits,"     said Dargo, vice president of Oracle's Linux Program Office."

   Perl Booth by Israel.pm at GO-Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0459203

    On 10th of April 2003 there will be a commercial Linux conference in     Tel Aviv, Israel called GO-Linux.

Grady Booch looks at software development's past, present, and future http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0416230

    Anonymous Reader writes "The new The Rational Developer Powerpack has     been released, it includes XDE - Java Platform, XDE - .NET Platform,     Rational Rose Enterprise Edition, Rational Rose RealTime, PurifyPlus,     software evaluation guide, technical articles and whitepapers, valuable     code snippets and reference applications, a handy quick-reference     posters and much more. Also take a look at this interview with Rational     Chief Scientist Grady Booch, ...

   Updated Mandrake boot disks
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0457218

    PC owners with more than 1GB of memory or with Promise IDE controllers     might be interested to know that there are some updated boot disks for     Mandrake 9.1 available which fix a couple of problems with those     configurations.

icepack-linux infos about the next releas (i3) http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0413243

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    Ralf Schülke writes "2003-04-04: icepack login manager 2.9.1 released,     next: icepack linux 2.91 release.

Open source versus open standards
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0455226

     The term "open" has been used and abused by the purveyors of     technology for a couple of decades now, so it should come as no     surprise that technology users are taking their turn. Today, the term     has become associated with software source code, industry standards,     developer communities and a variety of licensing models--four distinct     phenomena that are often intermingled in indistinct ways.

Redback Networks Selects DinoStor TapeServer and Reliaty Backup to Optimize Availability of Critical http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0410246

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and AMHERST, NH April 7, 2003 DinoStor, a pioneer     in network enabled backup solutions, and Reliaty, a prominent developer     of advanced data protection solutions, announced today that Redback     Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: RBAK), a leading provider of next-generation     networking equipment optimized for IP service delivery, has selected     DinoStor TapeServer and Reliaty Backup to protect Redbacks business     critical data, improving the ...

   Sometimes, More Is More
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0452231

     I've written in the past that I prefer KDE to GNOME as a desktop     environment, and after reviewing the latest versions of these two     environments, both in their vanilla and Red Hat-tweaked forms, my     preference for KDE has held fast.

Interview with Jeff Nguyen of ASL
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0329201

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    jeremy writes "In an interview with Jeff Nguyen, the CEO of ASL,     LinuxQuestions.org asks where Linux is going, what Linux is missing,     and what ASL has done to be able to survive and flourish while so many     other Linux hardware vendors have gone under."

One-on-one with Richard Stallman, part 1 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0326233

    Michael S. Mimoso writes "The SCO-IBM dispute raises many questions. If     SCO Group prevails in court, could the GNU/Linux operating system be     stripped of important code? Should users worry about future challenges     from other groups? And will the flap slow enterprise adoption of free     software? Richard Stallman's answers: No, no, and who cares?                                                             

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