OpenSolaris will challenge Linux says Sun, Sep 04, 2007

Sun Microsystems has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java.

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled a Web site to give people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects.

Google has expanded its support for Linux by becoming Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee.

In an interview earlier this week, [Bob] Sutor, vice president of standards and open source at IBM, talked about ODF and Microsoft Corp.'s rival Office Open XML document standard.

The Linux Foundation has updated its Linux Standard Base (LSB) server specification to include new automated testing toolkits to make it easier to develop applications for different distributions of the open-source operating system.

The Linux Foundation, a merger of the two Linux operating system evangelizing consortiums, named its 15-person board of directors Tuesday

Oracle has gotten off to a "very strong start" with its support program for users of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

Open-source database vendor Ingres Corp. is hoping that its newly released Icebreaker database and Linux combination will help it win new customers and enter fresh markets.

IBM Corp. Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.

What's the link between eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, often regarded as the father of modern economics, and the open-source software movement? According to Marten Mickos, the chief executive officer of open-source database company MySQL, it's Smith's concept of an "invisible hand," which guides individuals pursuing their own betterment to achieve goals that also benefit society at large.

Xen is the flavor of the month in the tech world. Not only is the open-source technology supported in the new release of Novell's Suse Enterprise Linux distribution, but Microsoft pledged to support Xen-virtualized Linux with its forthcoming Longhorn server virtualization technology. And don't forget about IBM.

Midland Memorial is running OpenVista as part of an open-source software stack on Red Hat's Linux Enterprise AS (advanced server) operating system, Whiles says. The Linux software runs on two Hewlett-Packard ProLiant DL850 servers working in an active/passive cluster.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is due to release the initial draft of the GNU general public license (GPL) version 3 Monday. Software vendors and lawyers expect the draft to include a number of clarifications in the license's wording so it can better recognize global copyright.

Hardware and clustering company Linux Networx unveiled its LS Series of Linux machines Monday. The Series contains two families, the midrange LS-1 Supersystem and the high-end LS/X supercomputer.

IBM and eight other storage vendors have formed a new open-source organisation to develop storage software.

Novell Inc. Wednesday announced its Suse Linux 10.0 operating system will be generally available early next month in retail or online stores.

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small.