JBoss Indemnifies Its Customers, Nov 17, 2003

In a first for the Java community, JBoss Group officials said they would protect customers from legal hassles surrounding any potential patent claims involving the popular open-source application server.

"We really want to show people that open source is an equal or better way to doing business as commercial software," said Bob Bickel, JBoss vice president of strategy and corporate development. "The companies that we typically compete against, like BEA Systems, have these terms and so we want our customers to have similar terms."

Gateway Inc., the personal computer maker, said on Monday it will offer the SuSE Linux AG's version of the open source Linux operating system on all of its servers, or network computers.

Gateway, which currently offers Microsoft Corp.'s server software and Red Hat Inc.'s version of Linux on most of its server models targeted at businesses, said that SuSE would become a strategic partner, allowing it to offer support for the server computers that it sells with the software company's software.

If he is to make good on his promise to improve life for the tens of millions of Brazilians who live in dire poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knows that one key challenge is to bridge a massive technology gap. And if that means shunning Microsoft Corp. software in South America's largest country, then so be it.

Silva's top technology officer wants to transform the land of samba and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation where everyone from schoolchildren to government bureaucrats uses open-source software instead of costly Windows products.

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