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How Significant Is SCO’s Win?
How significant was The SCO Group Inc.‘s victory in its discovery motion over IBM in the companies’ ongoing battle over Linux copyright and Unix contract issues? It depends on which analysts and lawyers you talk to about Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells’ decision. Wells granted SCO’s discovery motion, in which the Lindon, Utah, company had demanded…
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Microsoft, Let Go of My NT!
To paraphrase a famous 17th-century playwright: Alas, poor Windows NT, I knew it, Bill: An OS of many blue screens, of most excellent fancy: It hath borne me on its network a million times; and now, how abhorred in our collective memory it is! Whatever you will say about Windows NT, it was a very…
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WebEx Enters Remote PC Access Market
WebEx Communications Inc, best-known for its online meeting service, is moving more aggressively into online services for the small business and consumer markets. Its first target will be remote access for Windows PCs. On Monday, the San Jose, Calif., company will announce a service called MyWebExPC that lets users access a remote computer’s desktop through…
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ADVIZOR Updates Business Visualization Software
ADVIZOR Solutions announced this week that it had released version 4.0 of its business visualization software, which includes a new Analyst Edition and enhancements to the Developer Edition. The Analyst Edition allows users to shorten their “time to discovery” by exploring business data through its interactive visual display. Based on 12 ADVIZOR Visuals, the Analyst…
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SCO Wins a Round in IBM, Linux Saga
Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells of the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City gave The SCO Group Inc. a rare victory in its ongoing battle with IBM over whether IBM placed SCO-copyrighted Unix code in Linux. In her order, Judge Wells granted SCO’s discovery motion, in which the Lindon, Utah, company had demanded that IBM…
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Red Hat Readies New Enterprise Linux
Sources close to Red Hat Inc. tell eWEEK.com that the company will release RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 4.0, the next version of its Linux operating system, at an event in conjunction with February’s LinuxWorld trade show in Boston. This is the first major release of RHEL since September 2003. This also will be the…
