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New Industry Consortium Rallies Around Linux Standard Base
Four international Linux powers are forming a new Linux consortium to create a common core implementation of the Linux Standard Base 2.0. The Linux Core Consortium, or LCC, is expected to make its debut on Wednesday. The group is made up of four companies: Brazil’s Conectiva SA, France’s Mandrakesoft SA, Japan’s Turbolinux Inc. and the…
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Sun Signs Up Versora to Push Java, Linux Systems
Versora, an integrator specializing in providing customers with seamless transitions from Windows to Linux servers, has announced that it has joined Sun Microsystems Inc.’s iForce partner community. While Sun may have made its peace with Microsoft Corp., Versora CEO Mike Sheffey still sees Microsoft as its No. 1 target. “Versora and Sun Microsystems have partnered…
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Sun’s Solaris 10 Finally Ready to Roll
Senior executives from Sun Microsystems Inc. will take the stage Monday at the company’s last quarterly Network Computing event at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., to finally unveil the Solaris 10 operating system, which is scheduled to ship by the end of January 2005. Solaris 10, which Sun officials say reflects…
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Adobe Beefs Up Acrobat Reader in Version 7.0
Adobe Systems Inc. looks to meld its document management platform more firmly into business workflows as the company on Monday announces the next version of its Acrobat document interchange solution. Version 7.0 expands the exchange capabilities of its reader application and features tighter integration with Microsoft Corp.’s productivity and content applications. As with previous versions,…
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Sun to Delay Solaris 10 Pieces
The first production version of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris 10 operating system likely will not include two technologies when it ships early next year. Missing will be the 128-bit Solaris ZFS file system and the Janus technology that allows Linux binaries to run natively on Solaris, officials of the Santa Clara, Calif., company said. Click…
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Gateway Unit Built on BTX Chassis
Gateway is rolling out the first of its business desktops that use the BTX model developed by Intel. Compared with the traditional ATX model, BTX puts all the hottest components—from processors to graphics cards—in the center of the chassis, where they can be cooled by a front-to-back airflow. The result is more reliable, more energy-efficient…
