[newsforge daily] April 17, 2003

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April 17, 2003

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Novell jumps on the Forge bandwagon
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1431222

• Lee Schlesinger - Network software vendor Novell, in a bid to gain market and mind share, has started up a Novell Forge Web site for developers. The initiative was announced this week at BrainShare 2003, the company's annual technical conference.

CEO conversation: Jim Curtin of Win4Lin publisher NeTraverse http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/1824235

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Jim Curtin, President and CEO of Win4Lin publisher NeTraverse, says, "We're seeing people who've moved to Linux workstations and are finding they have a 20% gap on average between the functionality they're used to in a Windows environment and what they get in Linux." Curtin claims Win4Lin is the best way to bridge that 20% gap; that with Win4Lin it is almost as easy to upgrade from Windows 98 to Linux as it is to ...

Affirmative action for open source
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2231254

• Lee Schlesinger - Should a public agency use privately developed software when equally suitable open source alternatives exist? Maybe a better question is, should politicians set software evaluation guidelines for IT managers, or should software compete on its own merits? That's the question at issue in two US state legislatures this year, as well as in various nations around the world.

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Sun Microsystems Posts Small 3Q Profit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/2143218

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    Computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc. reported a small profit for     its fiscal third quarter Wednesday despite a 10 percent drop in sales     and the persistent downturn in spending by its corporate customers.

Necessary Censorship: Web Filtering with Open Source http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/2017245

    In some cases and for some audiences, relying on the human safeguard     isn't facing reality. Here are some tools you can use in those cases.

Users back Netware's Linux option
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1853205

     Novell customers and partners have welcomed the company's plan to     offer its Netware operating system with either a Netware or Linux     kernel from next autumn.

Why Linux is Not for You: The Lengthy Rebuttal of a Linux user http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1850237

    Anonymous Reader writes ""Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a     budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in     almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now     look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer.     After all, you write about technology because it not only interests     you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe     not." Read the editorial at ...

ION Computer Systems® offers online Intel® Itanium® 2 Benchmarking! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1840215

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    Paul Scheremeta writes "Hauppauge, New York - ION Computer Systems,     Inc. today announced that it has made available one of their new I2X4     servers for online benchmarking of the Intel Itanium 2 processor.     Potential customers who would like to upload, compile and benchmark     their application on the I2X4 4-processor Intel® Itanium® 2 server     may simply request access with a description of their tests.

Will patents pillage open source?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1512204

    Is open-source software just one patent away from annihilation? Many     people think so and point to the ominous convergence of two trends: the     widening availability of software patents and the willingness of     intellectual-property owners to challenge distributors of open-source     software. If someone can obtain a patent to key features of the Linux     kernel, couldn't that person bring the entire open-source community to     its knees by threatening ...

Softmaker annouces TextMaker for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/159226

    Is there a Linux desktop in your future? Linux advocates push for     widespread deployment of Linux on desktop computers, but sometimes     forget the realities of life: Like it or not, electronic document     exchange today is based on Microsoft Word (.doc) and Excel (.xls)     files.

Think Global, Buy Local Dept.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/154236

     Think Global, Buy Local Dept.: There's little doubt that much     high-tech activity is moving west--way west, to China and India. China     is expected to be on a par with the rest of the high-tech world in     process technology, because it can now buy the same American and     Japanese semiconductor-manufacturing gear as anyone else. I laugh to     myself when I recall the fuss made just a few years ago about certain     CPUs and chips going to China and Russia, ...

Interview: Chris Stone, Novell
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1454224

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     Chris Stone, vice chairman, Office of the CEO at Novell, sat down with     CRN Senior Writer Paula Rooney at BrainShare 2003 to talk about     happenings at company.

Linux gamers can now "Point2Play"
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1442231

    Anonymous Reader writes "Transgaming now offers Linux gamers access to     250 of the top PC games including EverQuest -- the worlds most     successful Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG).     Popular, recent releases available using Wind 3.0 include hits such as     EAs Battlefield 1942, SimCity 4, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and     many more."                                                             

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