Linux Online - News from Dec 23, 2004

News from Dec 23, 2004

Linux champion Munich welcomes patent delay, Dec 23, 2004

The mayor of Munich has hailed Poland's courageous stand on software patents, as his city government moves from Windows to open source

Japan's largest mobile carrier invests in Linux supplier, Dec 23, 2004

Japan's largest mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, has taken a $3 million equity stake in embedded Linux tools and support company MontaVista.

Competitors welcome European ruling against Microsoft, Dec 23, 2004

RealNetworks, Novell, Samba and others applauded a European court's ruling this week against Microsoft but agreed it's still unclear how the terms and conditions will impact their interests.

Red Hat Doubles 3Q Profit on Strong Sale, Dec 23, 2004

Linux software maker Red Hat Inc. more than doubled its profit in the third quarter ended Nov. 30, helped by a steep rise in software subscription revenue during the period.

Mozilla's Lightning to strike Outlook?, Dec 23, 2004

The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a key Microsoft title.

IBM fights back with hardware, Dec 23, 2004

In 2000, Mr Palmisano mapped out a strategy calling on IBM to share technologies more effectively across its hardware line-up, to embrace Linux and other products of the open source software community, and to start building tools to help companies manage increasingly complex IT systems. The project was known as Mach One.

Red Hat Down on Lower-Than-Expected Q3 Results, Dec 23, 2004

Red Hat said it ended its third quarter with cash and investments totaling US$979 million, according to a company statement. The company said it earned 6 cents a share in its third quarter, in line with Street expectations and above the year-ago 2 cents a share.

Linux lasting longer against Net attacks, Dec 23, 2004

Unpatched Linux systems are surviving longer on the Internet before being compromised, according to a report from the Honeynet Project released this week.

New Linux project to simplify complex computing, Dec 23, 2004

A new Linux project aimed at simplifying complex tasks on the open-source OS has been given 2.2 million euros (£1.54m) in funding from the EU.

Trolltech GPL's Qtopia app stack for Linux PDAs, Dec 23, 2004

Just in time for the holidays, Trolltech has contributed the most recent version of its development framework and application stack for PDAs to the open source community. Qtopia 2.1 PDA Edition is available for download now under the open source GNU GPL

10 points on Microsoft's 2005 'to do' list, Dec 23, 2004

Fending off open source software. This is about server software but now increasingly also about the desktop, in the form of the Linux OS, the Firefox browser and OpenOffice.org and its commercial variants.

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