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Corporates Undeterred By Linux Fuss
News But a survey shows that large companies are increasingly using Linux for their Web sites. One important section of the Linux market, large companies, so far does not seem fazed by SCO Group's warnings that Linux violates its Unix intellectual...
[July 25, 2003, 7:41]
Industry Group Fights SCO With Linux Education
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a Linux consortium funded by most of the computing industry's major companies, has launched the open-source industry's latest counterattack to the SCO Group's attack on Linux: an education campaign designed...
[November 27, 2003, 13:05]
Cassatt Aims To Slash Corporate Hardware Costs
News Cassatt has signed data management companies Ascential and Informatica as partners that intend to use the Collage software, and IBM, which said Collage runs on its Linux servers. Its software, called Collage, is designed to efficiently manage large...
[December 6, 2004, 8:30]
Ellison Seeks Open-source Unity
News Linux is making its way into the enterprise and more and more companies are going to rely on it to process critical data. Overall, Ellison praised the open-source community, saying Linux has progressed far enough for large corporations to begin...
[August 15, 2002, 11:32]
Royal Bank Of Scotland Embraces Open Source
News Although Linux has become pretty well established, open source applications that are further up the stack, like content management, are closer to users so companies are worried about how usable it is and how reliable it is," Oakes said.
[January 25, 2006, 13:20]
Storage Newcomers Target Niches
News Isilon Systems is targeting its networked storage device at digital content companies, while Panasas is focusing on organisations using Linux clusters. In a Linux cluster, a number of server computers running the Linux operating system are linked...
[October 20, 2003, 11:25]
Cooperative Open Source Testbed Opens Doors
News All the biggest Linux companies also are involved, including Red Hat, VA Linux Systems, Caldera Systems, SuSE, Turbolinux, LynuxWorks and Linuxcare. About the only companies missing from the effort are Sun Microsystems, which has a mixed...
[January 24, 2001, 9:26]
Avoid Big Bang Vista Upgrades - Gartner
News Desktop Linux is still only used by a small minority of companies, and businesses should make sure they evaluate it thoroughly in terms of the cost associated with a migration, said Jump. Despite the hype around Linux it remains niche and we see no...
[June 21, 2006, 16:40]
Oracle Releases Database For Itanium
News The developer version of Oracle's 9i database, available as a free download on Oracle's developer Web site, supports Linux 64, HP- UX and Windows XP operating systems. Separately, Linux seller MandrakeSoft released its version of Linux 64 for...
[December 4, 2001, 9:34]
SCO Sues IBM Over Unix, Linux
News SCO hasn't sued other companies that have Linux products -- for example, Red Hat or SuSE, but Sontag didn't rule out such actions. And the plan is moving quickly, beginning with a mechanism by which companies may license supporting Unix software...
[March 7, 2003, 7:33]
Dell Sees Profits In SAP's Software
News By offering a service that makes it easier for companies to move to Dell servers running Linux or Windows, Dell believes it can expand that base and gain a large share of the market for SAP servers. They said the PC maker's expanded suite of...
[April 29, 2004, 8:55]
Novell Evangelises Linux In Europe
News European companies tend to adopt new technology early, but to test it thoroughly before rolling it out on a large scale, and Seibt said that Linux is now moving past the testing phase into the investment phase.
[February 13, 2004, 9:20]
Oracle Database 10g On 64-Bit Linux: Ready For Enterprise-Class Computing
White Papers Intel, RedHat and Oracle have worked closely together to enhance Linux to enable companies to deploy large-scale configurations using the latest version of Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, with RedHat Linux 3.0 running on 64-bit systems based...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Shipbuilder Introduces HPC On Microsoft To Develop High Value-Added Ship Types
White Papers It chose the solution over UNIX and Linux after a thorough evaluation. Like many companies, shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. DSME was using a large-scale UNIX-based system for its simulation software and it had to add server...
[July 3, 2008, 1:01]
Legal Action Shuts SCO Web Site
News Lawyers representing LinuxTag, the German Linux group, told SCO on 23 May that the Lindon, Utah-based company was engaging in unfair competitive practices when it sent to 1,500 large companies letters that said using Linux could pose legal...
[June 4, 2003, 7:34]
Comdex: Linux Not Just For Nerds Anymore
News The symbol of the alternative OS, Linux, penguins grace nearly every booth of the crowded cluster of companies that make up the Linux Pavilion. But several companies are showcasing Linux-based office applications suites in the hopes of luring...
[November 18, 1998, 6:24]
Sun, HP Say SCO's Claim Is Not Relevant
News SCO, which acquired the rights to Unix a few years ago, is alleging that part of the Unix source code was copied into Linux and has sent out letters seeking royalty payments from computer companies and large corporations using Linux.
[May 20, 2003, 13:16]
Linux's Commercial Destiny In Doubt
News This doesn’t count other hosting companies, corporations, and other Linux professionals that host their sites using Red Hat versions of Linux. Moreover, potential price increases from Linux hosting companies to cover the additional licensing and...
[September 25, 2003, 12:35]
SCO Ready To Hit Australian Linux Users
News SCO's US headquarters announced in July last year its plan to allow companies using Linux to avoid litigation over alleged breaches involving its Unix intellectual property by acquiring a licence from the vendor.
[January 9, 2004, 9:35]
Quarter Of SMEs Test Linux
News The survey published by IBM claims that one in four companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees is currently using Linux, and half of them are expecting it to become their core operating system. One in four small companies are testing Linux, and...
[December 8, 2003, 10:45]
