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Ask Slashdot: Linux in the Corporate Workplace?

Samantha Bonsak would like to query you all on this issue: "I'm trying to find information reflecting the use of Linux within the corporate marketplace; who is using it and for what purpose. I've been hovering around the Slashdot site for a while and haven't seen any links or references regarding this. Can you point me in the right direction?" For the most part, I think that if Linux is being used in the average corporate workplace, then it is done so on the sly, but it would be interesting to know what other corporations are actively supporting Linux (aside from the usuals like IBM, Intel, Caldera, Corel and Netscape...) - Is there a way to get such information?
Caldera

More Investments to come

Not to be outdone, Caldera will be receiving investments from as yet unspecified companies, Ransom Lowe has been saying. Ed: I'd like to see some other companies/organisations from around the world getting backing (think Suse, Kheops, DLD, Debian Japan etc). Anyone from Siemens, Philips, Fujitsu, NEC, Sony listening?
News

MS cites Caldera for contempt of court

maynard writes "Microsoft is accusing Caldera of releasing confidential information through depositions and has filed a motion for contempt of court. " For those of you who need a remindar as to how Caldera would be this situation, this might help. Basically, Caldera and Microsoft were engaged in a legal battle, and Caldera got a whole slew of source code from MS. Any guesses as to how happy Microsoft was about that? I thought so.
Caldera

Free Sybase at Caldera

Apparently in the hubbub yesterday I forgot to mention that you can actually download a trial version of Sybase for free over at Caldera's site. Several readers have also noted that they now have Oracle 8 for Linux. Anyone up for writing something that compares these with Postgres/Mysql/mSQL etc? I'd love benchmarks and stuff comparing all 5, plus feature lists and stuff.
Linux

CNN: Why people don't hate Linux

John Goerzen writes "CNN has a story about Linux that is very positive. They talk about the pending announcement of a "major database company" to distribute Caldera OpenLinux, and gives an interesting and funny list of things to do while waiting for 100% Java support in IE. This is probably the best mainstream story on Linux I've seen yet. "
Caldera

Caldera TV Commercial

Mark Schlough writes "Here is a video to show your boss why you think Linux is cool! Thanks to Bryan Sparks and Wilson Lee for providing me with a 1:15 video of a Caldera TV commercial. Bryan said they will trim it down to 30 seconds to let Utah know who Caldera is before the DR-DOS Trial coming up. Also, a special thanks to Bob Cross for making the avi file for me. It's a 18.8 Meg file. I'm working on a smaller version and/or an MPEG with Bob."
News

Feature:Who is the Software Communist?

Philipp Koehn wrote in with a piece addressing something that always seems to come up any time you start talking about free software. His piece is called Who is the Software Communist. It's a pretty interesting read, although I suspect that most readers will disagree with it. I figure we'll hear some opinions on this one.
GNUStep

WindowMaker Hits Trademark Question

MarkJ writes "There's a discussion in the wmaker mailing list after an email was sent to windowmaker.org instead of windowmaker.com. It appears that there is already a program called WindowMaker, so the question is whether to try for a stampede-style friendly accommodation and pray they don't trademark it (their product is the older one) or to change the name. "
Caldera

Love talks about Caldera's Future

Boomhauer writes "In a Newsbytes article Caldera's Ransom Love talks about how he is positioning Caldera and OpenLinux. In talking about how he plans to market to VAR's, Love says in the article "Caldera Systems, says he does not want to be a giant-killer, he just wants to take the giant's toe. " "
Microsoft

Microsoft Destroys Evidence?

Unconfirmed - Mr.Darkguy writes "A key witness in the antitrust suit filed by Caldera against Microsoft (MSFT) has admitted under oath that documents were deleted from computers in a Microsoft office during the federal investigation of the software giant, sources close to the deposition said ". Can you say smoking gun? Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but if this is true, not only did they give away the code with the "error" message in Windows 3.1, but they admitted to lying about something else that's about as important.
Caldera

Caldera Reorganization

A kind tipster wrote in to let us know Caldera is going through a small reorganization. Basically, they're splitting in two: thin client stuff, and the rest, with Caldera, Inc., as the parent company, from what I can tell. Anyways, I wish them luck. The news is here. While we're at it, it'd be nice if they could give out more info on their "Linux Certified Engineer" program...
The Courts

Microsoft Antitrust Suit

Larry wrote in to tell us about the DOJ antitrust suit againt Microsoft expanding. The new evidence includes the whole MS pressuring Intel deal, as well as the recent Caldera thing about MS adding bugs to crash DR DOS. It's getting pretty crazy. Stock dropped a few points too.
Caldera

Microsoft Loses its Source Code

skydancer writes "ZDNet/UK report that Caldera is less than happy that Micro$oft seem to have lost a crucial part of the DOS/Windows source code they promised to turn over after the federal court ruling. Careless, really... "
Linux

Linux Only for the Brave?

subhas sent us a link to a fairly standard anti-linux article. It covers all the usual arguments against the OS, but paints it as just the latest pawn in the database vendor wars. He doesn't question the technical stuff, just the lack of support. InfoWorld gave Linux best tech support, does that mean anything? What about Red Hat and Caldera? Maybe it isn't as much about support as marketing. Well that, and Linux can be a bit rough on newbies, but even that is changing rapidly.
Linux

More Vendors Join The LSB

It's definately been a hot topic lately, no doubt about it. But Daniel Quinlan wrote in to send us a press release from the LSB stating that the Debian/Red Hat standards project (LCS) will be working with the LSB. Daniel has also been named as Bruce Perens replacement as the head of LSB. Besides having an @transmeta.com email address, Daniel has been the head of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. I'm really glad to see this come together. Anyway, I've attached the announcement- click below if you want to read it.
Linux

Linux legitimacy rallies NT skeptics

lc writes "This article in LAN Times basically tells about Linux and what it is, and how its stability and speed are why NT professionals are switching to Linux. It also goes on to tell about the software companies that recently stated that they're supporting Linux such as IBM, Oracle, Informix Corp, and Netscape. Cover story too..."
As well, PC Week is running a good review of Caldera Netware, and tying Linux into x-nets.

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