The Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow you to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects you're working on now and can serve as a roadmap for your furth

'The latest release of Win4Lin Pro Desktop is the perfect complement to the Linspire or Freespire user as it offers a seamless way to bring Windows application equivalency to their individual Linux desktop experience,' said Jim Curtin, president and CEO of Virtual Bridges. ' By allowin

Back in July 2006, one of the most contentious issues at the Linux Kernel Summit was what to do about virtualization. At that time, there were three contenders: Xen, VMware, and OpenVZ (the latter being a lighter-weight container-based approach). The biggest fight was between Xen and V

There was a time when you couldn't shut me up about the Linux desktop. I was a fanatic. In 2000, I made the switch to a full-time virus-free Linux desktop and weeks of crash-free computing. I was a zealot. However, I did suffer from a few of the alternative operating systems shortcomin

'I'm certain someone will sue somebody else about Linux on patent grounds, but it's less likely to be Microsoft (starting a trench war) and more likely to be a litigant who only holds IP and doesn't actually get involved in the business of software. It will be a small company, possibly

Total worldwide server sales were up 4.5% to $12.86 billion, Gartner says. IDC puts it at a seemingly rosier 4.9%, which is actually only $12.4 billion, the best first quarter since 2001, it said. IDC has total units up 4.6%, but says it still down significantly from 1Q06 growth. Gartn

The agreement enshrines the pretzel-like position Novell has been forced to adopt because it appears to be paying Microsoft not to sue its customers for using Linux. In a one-sentence disclaimer it says that, 'Nothing in this agreement shall imply, or be construed as an admission or ac

Novell has issued its 10K form, other documents, and a press release relating to its controversial agreement with Microsoft, which has generated criticism from members of the open source community and an assertion by Redmond that Linux may violate more than 200 of its patents.

Will Novell's disclosure of an edited version of its agreement with Microsoft take some of the heat off Novell created by the deal? 'It's hard to say,' said Novell's Bruce Lowry. 'The community has complained about not seeing it, so they'll see it. However, there will be things redacte

Following the great tradition of releasing potential dynamite after the business day closes, during a big holiday week-end no less, here are key links to documents from Novell that contain information relating to the company's arrangement with Microsoft that form the basis for Microsof

Dell says it is offering 'hardware options on each system that have the most mature and stable Linux driver support. These hardware options have been thoroughly tested and certified by Canonical. For hardware options not offered with this release, Dell is working with the vendors of th

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, who's sitting on a tidy little stash, says the company has been looking at acquisitions in its core markets. EMC says its Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra and Invista platforms have completed their interoperability qualification with Red Hat Linux.

There are now three sets of what Red Hat calls Liberation fonts: Sans (an open source substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for C

I've been busy working on our Web 2.0 release so didn't have time to update my laptop until now. I was generally happy with my Ubuntu breezy 64bit install, I had the JDK on there, Java worked in firefox 32bit, I could remotely display my screen to a projector and my broadcom wireless c

These days, executives realize that there are 'new school' ways of acquiring a company with a software asset. For all of the immeasurable benefits it has brought to the development community, open source technology has added a complex variable to relevant parties calculating the M&A eq

'Ubuntu 7.04 is the first Linux distribution to support paravirt-ops,' said Jane Silber, director of operations at Canonical Ltd., the primary sponsor of Ubuntu. 'VMware and the Ubuntu community have worked closely together to ensure that Linux customers can use a single operating syst

Ubuntu, Dell's pick for some of its PCs and laptops, is going to try its hand in the mobile and embedded market next and is talking about riding on small handheld Internet-enabled tablets powered by energy-efficient Intel chips, the tiny Silverthorn that Intel has described as being a

Novell has lost the chief architect of its Linux desktop effort Robert Love to Google and its Open Source Program Office. Many would like to ascribe it to the Microsoft-Novell relationship but Love denied it on Slashdot. It's simply the thrill of working for Google.

This article presents my working experience with the MontaVista Linux distribution (MontaVista Professional Edition 4.0 base on the 2.6.10 Linux kernel) running on a PowerPC processor board. It will present the physical memory mapping in Linux and its limitations using examples of a re

Michael Dell's new laptop, which Dell said last week is suporting Ubuntu, proved an accurate weathervane of the company's intentions. The much-heralded move is meant to scratch the itch of those Linux devotees who wrote in to Dell's IdeaStorm suggestion box asking Dell for a factory-in

I had originally written an editorial for this month's issue titled, 'Is Commercialization Killing Open Source?' Then I read William Hurley's blog (ht tp://talk.bmc.com/blogs/b log-whurley/whurley/opens ville). William or as his friends call him, 'whurley,' is the chief architect of open

The open source development model has unique characteristics that make it in some instances a superior model for developing software compared to the traditional software engineering cascade model. As with other practices, the open source development model had its advantages and inconve

'If I thought the state of Fedora were actually improving, I might hang in there. But it isn't,' wrote Eric S. Raymond (pictured) yesterday in an Open Letter with the title 'Goodbye, Fedora' which he cross-posted several places including Red Hat's own fedora-devel-list. He is abandonin

Red Hat is buying a privately held proprietary software company called Metamatrix Inc that's backed by Kleiner Perkins, the Invus Group and Integral Capital Partners on undisclosed terms. Red Hat senior VP of enterprise solutions Tim Yeaton said it will supply the piece that was missin

'With many enterprises spending as much as 70% of their IT budget on maintaining stove-piped legacy applications while a backlog of projects continues piling up, it's clear that proprietary 'application infrastructure vendors have failed to deliver relief for the CIO,' said Tim Yeaton,

Migrating EJB 2.0 entity beans to Hibernate POJOs is pretty straightforward. Like many applications, all of the data for HQ is stored in the database, and we need to map from the underlying data store to an object-oriented view. In EJB 2.0, you would model that data with entity beans.

Palm, which has apparently put thoughts of getting acquired out of its head - at least for the moment - says it's going to use Linux underneath at least some of its smartphones starting this year. It's been developing the mojo in-house for a while now and says it won't license it to an

Mainsoft announced the winners of the 'Race to Linux 2.0.' Jointly sponsored by Mainsoft, IBM, and Novell, the Race to Linux 2.0 challenged .NET developers to take three open-source ASP.NET 2.0 applications from Windows to Linux using their cross-platform tool of choice (e.g. Mono, Mai

Red Hat is presenting the next high value migration opportunity, the company says, which it believes will deliver even greater cost savings to enterprises: moving siloed legacy applications to JBoss Enterprise Middleware. 'With many enterprises spending as much as 70% of their IT budge

Once released, the technology called the IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) is designed to open a universe of thousands of x86 Linux applications to the System p platform. The news follows IBM's recent launch of three System p-based Web-tier servers aimed at co

Eventually one of the myriad nirvana schemes that the industry produces to dam up server sprawl is gonna click. Maybe this is the one and web farms and data centers will bless its name. FastScale Technology Inc, a baby start-up only 15 months old, has just gone GA with its first produc

For users wanting a secure, feature rich alternative to Microsoft Windows, Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the Thursday release of Ubuntu version 7.04. Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server whic

During the company's earning call Tuesday Oracle CEO Larry Ellison uttered the first words out of the company about its hijacking Red Hat Linux since it opened its front against Red Hat at the end of October. Despite recent press speculation that it's all been a great flop, Ellison cla

Sun Supports GNU/Linux Community by Distributing a Complete Java Stack, Including NetBeans, Packaged for Ubuntu 7.04 will be available in the Multiverse component of the Ubuntu repository on April 19. These technologies will be available for Ubuntu users to install easily over the netw

In the throes of a budding relationship with Canonical Ltd, Sun says Glassfish, the open source Java Enterprise Edition 5 application server, will be available on Ubuntu, the species of Linux Canonical is commercializing. Glassfish is currently governed by Sun's CDDL license. Ubuntu, w

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by at our publisher's offices (SYS-CON Media) and they showed me our Flex book with the correct cover, but all pages were blank. Yesterday, I've got an email from them with the words, 'Yakov your book is ready, stop by and pick it up'. The guys from prod

Novell today announced that it has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of information technology companies and professionals committed to improving energy efficiency in the data center. As a contributing member, Novell is working with other members of The Green Grid, such as AMD, Dell,

Virtualization Conference & Expo is the leading event covering the booming market of Virtualization for the enterprise, with experts on server, storage, application and desktop technologies. The conference will contain multiple sessions on how to improve application efficiency and lowe

Novell today announced that Sumitomo Electric Industries is using SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server from Novell(R) with integrated Xen* virtualization software to extend the useful life of its platforms, minimize additional hardware investment through more efficient use of resources, and

Richard Stallman just delivered extensive remarks about the state of open source and the GPL, and now a survey shows that there may be a 50/50 split within the open source community concerning whether the GPLv3 will be a good thing.