21:23 11.09.2007
You’ve seen all these VMWare announcements? Look at these as two paths for OEMs. Most will choose both, I believe. The deals VMWare announced are non-exclusive. We’re talking to the same people.
The two biggest names in the Linux industry – Linus Torvalds and Red Hat – skipped out on LinuxWorld again. It’s no surprise. Torvalds, the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel, rarely delivers keynotes or makes public appearances at conferences. His right-hand man, the No. 2 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton opened up the show
Motorola is close to releasing its much anticipated, first Linux-based Razr2 V8 handset in the U.S, ” said Christy M Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development for Motorola during a LinuxWorld press conference. Showing off her own Linux Razr2, Wyatt was prevented by the company’s communications department from providing a more exact release date for
Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said the Linux industry must create a vendor neutral standard for application development or face the same fragmentation that killed Unix. Speaking before a packed audience at LinuxWorld at the Moscone Center Wednesday, the Novell CEO said the Linux Standards Base (LSB) is a good start but it’s not enough. A standard
Firescope ships as a piece of hardware, not as a DVD. "Once you buy it you can hot deploy. You won’t have admin access to the box, but through the interface you can upgrade it, with an auto update system."
Some well known virus signatures were run against the programs to test their engines. Some, like open source ClamAV (above), found them all. Others, like Watchguard, missed nearly all of them.
Dell has begin shipping Ubuntu Linux preloaded on consumer PCs and notebooks in Europe and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on business PCs in China. Dell CTO Kevin Kettler announced the news during his keynote at LinuxWorld 2007, claiming such efforts will expand adoption of Linux on the desktop worldwide. The CTO displayed a photo of founder and chief executive officer Michael Dell using Ubuntu Linux on his
One year after Red Hat acquired JBoss, the battle is finally beginning to heat up in the open source middleware space. In what was described as a “coming out party” for JBoss post merger, Red Hat and Dell disclosed at LinuxWorld 2007 plans to prebundle three middleware stacks on Dell’s PowerEdge Servers. “Partnering with Dell allows us to be much bolder in the middleware space,”
Don’t expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux kernel, said a top Linux maintainer. At his LinuxWorld opening keynote, Andrew Morton made it very clear that the appointment of former OSDL CTO and Debian co-founder Ian Murdock to Sun’s OS platforms organization will not translate into a merging between the open source version of Solaris Unix
The Linux kernel’s No. 2 developer said there are no plans to embrace GPL 3 or change the kernel development process. And he tried to dispel concerns that the Linux kernel will fork. In his 90 minute talk and extended Q&A session opening up LinuxWorld Expo 2007 Monday afternoon, Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton said Linus
It is still possible for a fab-less fab to have success from a proprietary base. But Moore's Second Law will continue to bite, and the cost-savings from sharing some development resources will become increasingly important.
