PLATFORMS REPORT
Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008
Ubuntu founder urges Linux desktop to rival Apple
Posted July 23, 07:15 a.m. Pacific Time
Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux
desktop to rival what Apple has done in this space and aired a vision of
software changing the world.
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Ubuntu to unveil new version of Launchpad next week
Posted July 23, 09:16 a.m. Pacific Time
A year after creating an online open-source software development
community to take on SourceForge.net and other rivals, the development
team at Ubuntu Linux will be the first to admit that they still have a
long way to go to achieve the popularity of their competitors.
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Sun readies Web stack featuring choice of OSes
Posted July 22, 21:01 p.m. Pacific Time
Sun is announcing on Wednesday availability of Sun Web Stack, which puts
the company's own twist on the popular open-source LAMP (Linux Apache
MySQL Perl/Python or PHP) stack.
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Symbian: R&D wants motivated open sourcing
Posted July 22, 05:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Research and development efficiency, and not competitive concerns about
the Google Android or Linux Mobile (LiMo) initiatives, was a chief
driver in the decision to make the Symbian mobile platform open source,
a Symbian official said Monday afternoon.
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How to handle SOA vendor consolidation
Posted July 22, 03:00 a.m. Pacific Time
The SOA concept -- developing a software architecture based on service
components that can be mixed and matched as needed to reduce development
time and increase application deployment flexibility -- is only a few
years old, but the providers of SOA-supporting infrastructure are fast
consolidating. Oracle captured the headlines with its acquisition of BEA
Systems this spring, and Progress Software recently bought Iona
Technologies.
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Linux set to make mobile splash
Posted July 21, 13:15 p.m. Pacific Time
Linux is set to make a major impact in the mobile computing realm, the
executive director of the Linux Foundation stressed at a conference
Monday morning.
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SCO loses another round in Unix fight
Posted July 17, 09:44 a.m. Pacific Time
At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003, the
SCO Group imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell, and others
would pay it large amounts of cash for alleged infringements on
SCO-owned Unix code.
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Apple now third largest PC vendor in the U.S.
Posted July 17, 04:31 a.m. Pacific Time
Apple is moving up the charts, toppling Acer to become the third largest
PC vendor in the U.S., according to a survey from Gartner.
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