GPL is no hippie dream, Dec 09, 2003

In this column, Linux creator Linus Torvalds rebuts Mr. McBride's arguments, arguing that the GPL (GNU General Public License) software license that governs Linux has far more in common with U.S. Copyright Law than McBride suggests.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the premier not-for-profit, professional certification program for the Linux community worldwide, has affiliated with Open Source communities in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean and Middle-East to increase professionalism, exposure and participation of Linux by corporate, government and academic environments in each country.

TopoZone contains a library of geospatial data, including USGS digital topographic maps and aerial photographs. The TopoZone Internet mapping system uses Open Source tools, such as the MapServer system, which will be used to serve data to the National Map.

Covalent Technologies, a leader in Web application management solutions, today announced Covalent Application Manager (CAM) is the first complete management solution for the open source stack. Covalent Application Manager manages all major open source Web application resources including Tomcat, Jboss, Linux, Apache, and MySQL, solving the current "Achilles heel" of enterprise open source adoption. Covalent also announced momentum for this solution with the signing of two enterprise customers.

The customers utilizing CAM to manage their open source stack are La Quinta, a hotel chain with more than 360 properties in 33 states, and National Semiconductor, an analog technology company with yearly sales over $1.67 billion. This customer adoption is testament to the power of CAM to manage the growing number of open source resources deployed in the enterprise.

The National Weather Service (NWS) is replacing outdated Unix-based computers from Hewlett-Packard Co. with new IBM IntelliStation computers running Linux.

The move should speed up the delivery of watches and warnings during severe weather by 400%, from 247 seconds to 62 seconds, and reduce the agency's hardware maintenance costs by 40%, according to Chuck Piercy, program manager for the NWS's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System.

"That's pretty impressive," said Bob Lenard, director, IBM eServer Workstations. "When you're dealing with weather, any improvement helps. It's about saving lives and saving property, and that's what they're in business to do."

Sun is challenging Microsoft on a new front: the consumer market. Believing its Java Desktop System is "a more effective home and retail solution," the company is negotiating with major retailers Wal-Mart and Office Depot to include the desktop on consumer PCs and laptops.

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