Borland Ships Kylix 2 With Web Services Focus, Nov 07, 2001

Borland Software Corporation today announced the general availability of Borland Kylix 2 for the rapid development of e-business applications for Linux. The latest version of Borland's award-winning, rapid application development (RAD) environment for the Linux operating system, Kylix 2 enables companies to rapidly build and deploy applications that simplify e-business integration with Web Services across diverse platforms between customers, suppliers, business partners and employees worldwide.

The company will have to do some fancy footwork to quell concerns of its .Net partners and current customers, said John Pescatore, an analyst with research firm Garner. The .Net initiative is Microsoft's overarching plan for ubiquitous online services. "Microsoft realises that they have to be perceived as a more secure company if .Net is ever going to be a success," Pescatore said. In a column following the outbreaks of the Code Red and Nimda worms, the analyst urged companies hit by both attacks to consider alternatives to Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) software.

We almost forgot to mention this, but Linux recently became the first desktop OS to support enormously large file sizes. How large?

144 Petabytes, or 144,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. A Petabyte is roughly a thousand Terabytes, with a Terabyte being roughly a thousand Gigabytes, of course.

Last week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Linux developer Alan Cox told eWEEK that they will both embrace a new Virtual Memory manager and implement it in forthcoming iterations of the operating system. Cox has, until now, continued to use the existing VM in the version of the 2.4 kernel he maintains.

While at least some of the security changes made in the prerelease of the 2.2.20 Linux kernel have already been discussed elsewhere, Cox claims that describing these changes might be in violation of the same anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) used to prosecute Russian programmer Dmitri Sklyarov, and cited by Professor Felten in his initial decision not to publish a paper describing weaknesses in SDMI.

There are no two ways about it: The settlement that the United States Department of Justice reached last week with Microsoft Corporation is only barely better than the one the parties reached in 1995. Microsoft, adjudged guilty of essentially hijacking the software industry, has agreed not to do it anymore unless it wants to

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