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"Time to Combat SCO's FUD More Strategically," Says Analyst September 29, 2003 Summary Analyst Rob Enderle is enjoining the Linux community to start thinking more strategically and to move against the real threat that SCO represents - as a spreader of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Linux. Read Story Email Story Print Story Read/Add Feedback About LinuxWorld News Desk By LinuxWorld News Desk Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, is saying today that the Linux community needs to think strategically and move against the real threat that SCO represents - fear, uncertainty, and doubt. “The community must encourage...

Monday September 29, 2003 - [ 03:16 PM GMT ] Topic - Press Releases LINDON, Utah--September 29, 2003--The SCO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOX) today made the following announcement: On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint against The SCO Group. In this amended complaint IBM asserts that SCO has violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), and based on this violation has then violated certain IBM copyrights. IBM, not SCO, has brought the GPL into the legal controversy between the two companies. SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to supplant...

HP shells out for SCO road show By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 29/09/2003 at 13:52 GMT Starting Oct. 7, SCO users throughout the U.S. and Canada will have a chance to express their appreciation for the company's intellectual property defense program in an up-close, personal setting. The SCO City-to-City Tour kicks off in Toronto on Oct. 7 and then snakes its way through the U.S., ending up in Orlando, Florida on Oct. 29. Users who sign up for the get together will hear "messages, news, and product information" that are vital to running a successful SCO operation. One of...

BOSTON -- International Business Machines Corp. has filed new counterclaims against SCO Group Inc. in the closely watched case involving the Linux operating system, according to a memo sent to the IBM sales force. According to the memo, which was obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the new counterclaim charges that SCO infringed IBM's copyrights by distributing IBM's contributions to Linux after SCO had violated its Linux license by claiming a copyright on parts of Linux. IBM says in its counterclaim that SCO violated the general Public License under which Linux is distributed. The GPL requires Linux distributors to...

A panel of leading security experts Wednesday blasted Microsoft for vulnerabilities in its software, and warned that reliance on the Redmond, Wash.-based developer's software is a danger to both enterprises and national security. The group, which debuted its report at the first day of a two-day conference hosted by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), was headed by Dan Geer, the chief technology officer of @Stake, a security consulting firm. "As fast as the world's computing infrastructure is growing, vulnerability to attack is growing faster still," said Geer. "Microsoft's attempts to tightly integrate myriad applications with its operating system...

<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Clearing a legal cloud around the Linux operating system, computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. will announce Wednesday it will protect its customers from the SCO Group Inc.'s intellectual property claims if the software is running on HP equipment.</p>

IBM to launch Linux technology center in South China ( 2003-09-23 19:27) (Xinhua) International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Tuesday signed a memorandum with Guangdong Province for joint efforts to launch its second Linux technology support center in China, following the setting up of the first one in Beijing in June. The center will provide software testing, project and technology management services, and professional training courses, according to IBM. Linux, a server and personal computer operating system now in popular use worldwide, is of great use for the development of China's software industry due to its openness, security and lower cost....

Saturday September 20, 2003 - [ 08:08 AM GMT ] Topic - Business - by Jeff Childers - Corporate IT budgets have become paralyzed by their resistance to monolithic, all-or-nothing upgrades accompanied by painful services interruptions and unexpected cost overruns. Their obstinacy has been learned by hard experience, and is caused by the near ubiquitous use of Microsoft software in business. Microsoft has engineered its software to create just this interdependency. The result is the phenomenon of "cascading" upgrades, where the decision to upgrade a single Microsoft component triggers an avalanche of related upgrade requirements. Consider the following example: A...

<p>Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced its Java Enterprise System and its Java Desktop, which will fundamentally change Sun's software pricing, delivery and licensing models. After the announcement at the Sun Network conference in San Francisco, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software, sat down with eWEEK senior editor Peter Galli.</p>

TOKYO -- The threat to Microsoft from the free Linux operating system could intensify with the help of a powerful Asian triumvirate: Japan and South Korea are prodding China to join an effort that promotes alternatives to Windows. Japan has earmarked $8.6 million for the project and will hold a meeting in November for the three governments to strengthen research in Linux, including versions that better handle Asian languages. Like some European countries, Japan, South Korea and China have long been wary of leaving too many government computers and networks dependent on Windows. Many experts see Windows as too prone...

Groklaw's Open Letter to SCO's CEO Darl McBride Saturday, September 20 2003 @ 12:21 PM EDT Dear Mr. McBride, Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source/free software community. Because you addressed your letter to our community-at-large, we thought we should answer you ourselves. Our community isn't organized hierarchically like a corporation, so it has no CEO or overall leader in that sense, except that Linus Torvalds leads Linux kernel development and Richard Stallman leads the GNU Project and the Free...

Groklaw sends a Dear Darl letter Tells SCO to expect legal action By Egan Orion: Saturday 20 September 2003, 11:33 A GROUP from the open source / free software community has put together a response to SCO CEO Darl McBride's "Open Letter to the Open Source Community". The INQUIRER is glad to print Groklaw's "Dear Darl" letter, along with their research. µ Dear Mr. McBride, Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source / free software community. Because you addressed your...

So, yet another survey has attempted to answer the question of whether running a system on Linux or Windows is cheaper. On the face of it buying Linux software is cheaper because it is open-source and Microsoft has a famously pricey licensing system for its products. However, it is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) that is the important factor. How much does it cost all in - maintenance, development, training - to run both systems? We've had numerous surveys, reports and studies in the past two years that have pointed first way one and then the other. In fact,...

  Oi! *Nix admin, get patching By John Leyden, The RegisterSep 18 2003 5:58AM It's become a busy week for *Nix sysadmins with the release of patches over the last few days to resolve vulnerabilities with popular applications including Sendmail, openSSH and DB2. Those *Nix techies enjoying a sense of schadenfreude as their Windows sysadmin colleagues toiled to defend Windows systems against Blaster, Sobig, Nachi et all over the last month now have some work on their hands. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First, users of the popular OpenSSH security package need to upgrade to version 3.7.1 because of a buffer overflow flaw....

IBM posts fix for DB2 Linux security flaw By Martin LaMonica Staff Writer, CNET News.com A security flaw in Linux editions of IBM's DB2 database could allow unauthorized users to seize control of a database's contents, Big Blue has revealed. IBM said that the problem affects version 7 of its DB2 database for Linux. The company posted a patch, called FixPak 10a, on its Web site. IBM also is expected to update its usual DB2 version 7 technical support page with the latest fix. The flaw was uncovered by Boston security company Core Security Technologies, which alerted IBM. Core Security...

Form 10-Q for SCO GROUP INC 15-Sep-2003 Quarterly Report ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto, included elsewhere in this quarterly filing and our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2002 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the audited financial statements and management's discussion and analysis contained therein. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties often indicated by such words as "estimates," "anticipates," "continues," "expects," "intends," "believes"...

Controversial software seller The SCO Group fired back against Linux leader Red Hat on Monday, filing a motion to dismiss the Linux company's suit against SCO. In a motion filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in Delaware, SCO argued that Red Hat has no grounds to sue SCO, as SCO's actions against the open-source Linux operating system have not specifically targeted Red Hat. "Red Hat's legal action does nothing more than seek general guidance for the marketplace as to the legal rights SCO has with respect to Linux software," according to the motion. "This is an impermissible use of...

Motor giant Ford to move to Linux By John Lettice Posted: 15/09/2003 at 16:56 GMT Motor giant Ford is switching to Linux for its sales systems, human resources, customer relations and infrastructure, according to a report in yesterday's Scotland on Sunday. But although the company is undoubtedly a megawin for Linux, Register sources suggest that the real battle was between the Linux vendors, with maybe just a soupcon of Sun. Ford is of course a global company, with major sites in the US, Germany and the UK. Our understanding is that the battle boiled down to one between Red Hat...

Governments like open-source software, but Microsoft does not IN MAY, the city of Munich decided to oust Microsoft Windows from the 14,000 computers used by local-government employees in favour of Linux, an open-source operating system. Although the contract was worth a modest $35m, Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, interrupted his holiday in Switzerland to visit Munich and lobby the mayor. Microsoft even dropped its prices to match Linux—a remarkable feat since Linux is essentially free and users merely purchase support services alongside it. But the software giant still lost. City officials said the decision was a matter of principle: the...

"Quickly Assess the situational area through real-time situational knowledge" The Raytheon Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisiton-Mission Equipment Package (RSTA-MEP) program provides the capability to quickly assess the situational area through real-time situational knowledge provided by long range on-board thermal sensors and off-board sensors. Technological advancements in the sensors and software provide for a wide-area-search (WAS) capability, automatic target detection (ATD), and aided target recognition (AiTR). ATD and AiTR can automatically detect stationary or moving targets beyond the enemy's engagement range and provide a wealth of data to the crew including target bearing, elevation, range, classification, and priority. The RSTA-MEP leverages...