[newsforge daily] August 27, 2003

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August 27, 2003

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Solving the payment problem for open source and P2P file sharing http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/143247

• by Matt Asay - The software and entertainment industries have a problem, but it's not the problem they think it is. Both believe they have intellectual property problems. In the case of software, large software vendors are struggling to figure out how to keep their IP and associated revenues from being cannibalized by open source software. Record labels and movie studios, for their part, believe that peer-to-peer piracy is destroying their ...

Is a Linux supercomputer in your future? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/193205

• by Chris Gulker - Linux admins, start checking out the HOWTOs and FAQs on Linux clusters. While they might not be as common as file and print servers, Linux-based supercomputers are increasingly showing up at medium and large-sized business to simulate everything from product designs to the company's own business processes.

Sun renders all iPlanet code extinct with new SunONE app server http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/2357234

• by Chris Preimesberger - SAN FRANCISCO -- When Sun Microsystems' latest industrial-strength application server, SunONE 7.0, is introduced next month at the SunNetwork Conference, all vestiges of the company's old iPlanet server code officially will have gone the way of the pterodactyl.

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Tonight Live: Mars (the planet) &amp; PureMessage http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/2039224

    Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: Mars & PureMessage>> on The Linux     Show!! Tuesday, August 26th, 2003 from Chicago IL.

SCO's Linux case gets weirder
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1824216

     The more cynical among us may suggest that SCO's goal is to increase     its stock price.

Columbitech Adds Linux Client
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1934254

    Wireless security software developer Columbitech today announced the     availability of a Linux client for its Columbitech Wireless Suite. This     new feature that enables an open-source environment coupled with     Columbitech's unique VPN technology delivers full wireless     functionality for very demanding environments such as embedded clients     with very small memory and processor capabilities. Developers building     PDA or telematics applications can now ...

Linux ported to Metagence's META RISC/DSP multicore processor family http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/206228

     Embedded product designers building real-time entertainment and     communication devices around Linux have a new processor platform to     evaluate, as Imagination Technologies division Metagence has a Linux     2.4.18 kernel running on its multi-core family of META processors.     Metagence is claiming its port to be the first of Linux to a     multi-threaded processor architecture.

SCO: to pay or not to pay
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1715218

     SCO has started invoicing Linux users that it claims are illegally     using copied Unix code.

Virus Storm, SCO/IBM/Linux and The BBC, US Style http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1659223

     Companies across the world are reporting what is probably the worst     virus outbreak ever, due to the SOBIG virus, which has struck just as     the virus Blaster was waning. SOBIG has been around for 6 months, but     it has been "mutating". Mutating is, of course a metaphor. What appears     to happen is that the virus writing community is a happy to take an     existing virus and add something and this is what happened with SOBIG,     making it more virulent than ...

DotGNU Coding Competition - $4500 in prizes http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1633251

    Norbert Bollow writes "The DotGNU project is holding an international     competition in the area of collaboratively implementing the     System.Windows.Forms namespace of the C# class libraries. Besides the     chance of winning one of fifteen monetary prizes totalling US$ 4500,     participants get the good feeling of having contributed to setting the     IT world free from the dominion of a certain monopolistic company. The     full anouncement is here."

Miss Workrave prevents RSI
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1629230

    dotSphinx writes "Okay, it ain't exactly Lara Croft, but surely Miss     Workrave can attract your attention to keep your wrists healthy.     Workrave is a free program that assists in the recovery and prevention     of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). So now there finally is a     competitive alternative to the multitude of proprietary RSI tools in     use by various companies. Please spread the word amongst your     colleagues..."

Columbitech Adds Linux Client Support To Its Wireless VPN Creating An Open and Flexible Environment http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1616215

    NEW YORK-August 26, 2003-Wireless security software developer     Columbitech today announced the availability of a Linux client for its     Columbitech Wireless Suite. This new feature that enables an     open-source environment coupled with Columbitech's unique VPN     technology delivers full wireless functionality for very demanding     environments such as embedded clients with very small memory and     processor capabilities. Developers building PDA or telematics ...

SAP Server Consolidation: Consider Linux, Analyst Says http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1533242

     A new report from research firm Sageza Group says that Big Iron Linux     is an excellent platform on which to consolidate SAP servers.                                                             

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