Chinese developers should take global open-source role
Execs say Chinese companies have the opportunity to lead some development of open source technologies

Red Hat mulls Exchange competitor
Company owns Netscape Messaging Server

Becker on Linux, clustering, grid
Co-founder of Beowulf clustering project predicts small interest in grids, mass appeal for clustering

German startup to offer Linux server line
Pyramid Computer transferring its open source technology to a new company, Collax

USB server offers Linux to go
Portable Linux server can be plugged into USB port of a Windows PC

GPL upgrade due in 2007
Patent issues, Web services among issues to be pondered

OSDL announces Patent Commons project
Group hopes to encourage more patent holders to contribute intellectual property to open source community

Launch of Fedora Foundation delayed
Red Hat has not completed the applicaiton for the license for the organization

HP exec decries proliferation of open source license types
An official at LinuxWorld also pledges to boost Linux with scalability, availability

IBM realigns Linux sales effort
Products are being positioned to solve specific business problems

EnterpriseDB set to battle MySQL, Oracle
Product is based on PostgreSQL open source database

Novell to resell MySQL services
Company will offer MySQL Network directly to customers

Business Objects adds support for Linux
Company makes available BusinessObjects XI, Crystal Reports Server XI versions that run on Linux

HP to offer per-chassis blade licensing
Systems also will ship bundled with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

IBM Gluecode to support Geronimo
Big Blue to offer services for the open source Java application server

SCO CEO: Even if court bids fail, we will survive
Darl McBride says a cap on legal expenses and a profitable Unix business mean SCO is poised for sustainability

Platform Computing preps grid foundation
Enterprise Grid Orchestrator to serve as a centralized management system

VMware opens up its virtualization software
Company will share source code and interfaces in new community program

IBM offers starter pack for grid computing
Bundle includes blade server, management and scheduling software, as well as services for installation, testing and tuning

Funambol announces initial funding
Open source mobile app server vendor to hire mroe engineering and sales staff

Novell claims Linux lead in China
Company garners almost one-third of market

Startup Splunk brings search to admins
Engine will search log files, message queues, and binary data

Apache group releases upgrade to Derby database
Open source database targeted at departmental-level or SMB applications

Free software center will 'breed' lawyers
Group aims to spawn software lawyers

GPL 3 likely to appear in early 2007
Author of draft says license needs to be globalized

Novell to open source Suse
Exec says goal is to make open source OS usable by non-technical people

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