SCO's "Notice of Compliance" Says They Have Not Yet Fully Complied, Jan 14, 2004

It looks like SCO did not fully comply with the court's order by the deadline after all.

SCO has posted a Notice of Compliance as a PDF on its web site, which states that they have filed "Supplemental Responses". The notice claims they have fully complied with the court's order with respect to answering Interrogatories 1-9, 12 and 13, but they reserve the right to supplement after they get more code from IBM.

However, they say they have *not* produced all the documents requested by IBM, specifically files of certain directors and officers. Because of the holiday, they didn't have time to fully review them yet. That is another way of saying they have not fully complied.

"You're actually going to be forced to go into an open source model without having considered whether it will work for the long-term business model," Oi told attendees at the Linux and Open Source in Government Conference in Adelaide.

Looking to get a leg up on Oracle Corp. and make its open-source database offerings more enterprise-worthy, IBM is boosting the clustering capabilities of its DB2 software for the Linux operating system.

At next week's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York, IBM plans to preview enhancements to the scalability, reliability and integration capabilities of its DB2-based Linux clusters. In particular, there will be a new Linux-based DB2 partition advisor for database administrators who want to automate cluster management operations, according to Gary Schneider, director of Linux business development and information management at IBM.

James Governor, a principal analyst at RedMonk, said Microsoft didn't have much choice but to extend support for Windows 98, for two reasons. First, he said, Linux has become a real threat, and although it wouldn't have swallowed up all the old Windows 98 users, it would make a difference. "I'm not going to say a large chunk of the install base would have moved to Linux, but certainly there is an alternative there -- but I don't want to overstate that," he said. Governor also pointed out that unlike the dot-com boom years, companies simply can't afford to invest in new hardware in order to upgrade their operating system: "Given the terrible state that budgets have been in over the past few years and continue to be in, we are not seeing a lot of money being freed up. Companies are saying 'this is good enough so why should we change?'," he said.

The networking company claims it may follow IBM's lead and commit to a wholesale internal rollout of desktop Linux

Novell's UK MD has revealed that a wholesale internal migration to the Linux desktop is definitely on the cards, as it would follow the company's traditional commitment to using its own software where possible.

Microsoft plans to broaden its attack on Linux and related operating systems this week by giving away a set of tools for migrating applications to Windows.

The company is expected to release on Thursday a new version of Services for Unix (SFU), a collection of tools that help Windows systems to work with installations based on the Unix operating system and its open-source derivative, Linux.

Demonstrating value for money convinces government departments of Linux's merits, according to delegates at an Australian conference

While government departments remain concerned about the implications of using open-source software, successful projects have overcome that concern by simply demonstrating better value for money.

NewsForge learned recently that Scott Draeker, the founder and CEO of Loki, the now defunct, bankrupt, closed-up-and-gone Linux game company, filed a $19 million lawsuit for defamation of character against longtime Linux journalist Dennis Powell and his Linux news site, Linux and Main.

The suit was filed in May of last year over three articles at Linux and Main which were published a year earlier. The first article reported in a delay in the bankruptcy process caused by Draeker's failure to appear. The second was a retrospective on the life, problems, and death of the game company. The third story was not about Loki at all, but did reference the earlier reporting.

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