Open-source software may not make major inroads into industry-specific enterprise applications, according to an IBM open-source guru. The next 10 years will be "do or die" for this type of application, said Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards at IBM, in a LinuxWorld keynote address Wednesday.
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Torvalds, Red Hat are no shows at Linuxworld
The two biggest names in the Linux industry – Linus Torvalds and Red Hat – skipped out on LinuxWorld again.
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Google moves the numbers, press panics
Supposedly the big news coming out of LinuxWorld today is that Microsoft’s IIS server is “catching up” to Apache.
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GPL3 to dominate LinuxWorld
An open-source competitor to Microsoft Project and discussion of the GPL3 are among the expected highlights of LinuxWorld, which kicks off today in San Francisco.
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Some LinuxWorld predictions
It's that time of the year again. Here's next week's news, so you won't miss anything:
- Ron Hovsepian will talk up the benefits of Novell's Microsoft deal.
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What do you want to hear from Dell about its Linux plans?
In an unusual move, Dell is asking its users what they want Dell CTO Kevin Kettler to talk about at next week's LinuxWorld trade show at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
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Microsoft offers treats to Linux hackers
Microsoft's Windows Embedded team is offering "the biggest selection of [free] apps outside of Moscone Center," in connection with next week's LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. The "apps," in this case, are appetizers, plus free beer and wine.
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Two new filesystems for Linux
New filesystem technology for Linux includes high capacity, snapshots, copy-on-write, and on-the-fly corruption detection.
[...] The most interesting new contender, perhaps, is btrfs, which was announced by Chris Mason on June 12.
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