IBM: You Don't Need a Computer to See Its Growth Potential -- Barron's

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| Palmisano: "We have a top share in servers and Linux, No. 1 in blade
| servers, which is a huge growth area... No. 1 in supercomputing, No. 1
| in SOA... We're No. 1 in middleware... IBM is a stronger company today
| than it was four years ago, with stronger margins, solid cash and
| earnings." Barron's: You don't need a computer to know what that
| trend could do for IBM's shares.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061203/21632_id.html?.v=1

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IBM's Power Architecture Attracting More Linux Developers

The Ides of March Approaches for Novell

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| So, Novell now has something concrete to ponder - on or about the
| 15th of March, 2007, they should expect to lose the right to
| distribute updates and improvements to the very software that
| gives them their precious "interoperability" with Windows -
| Samba. And they should expect other projects to follow,
| leaving Novell and Microsoft to maintain their own forks.
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http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/04/the-ides-of-march-approaches-for-novell/

Shuttleworth comments on the deal in the Open Week IRC chats:

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/04/more-shuttleworth-on-novell-microsoft/

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Mandy hotmaul.com> wrote:

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ed wrote:

Thanks, that ought to do it. I'll look into it later today. If I
understand the gmail invite system correctly[1], I'll soon have
infinitely many to give away from as well, so I shouldn't need more of
them ... :-)

[1] http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060121

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In today's digest, we have:
* NEC to Adopt Linux Stack
* 10 Reasons to Switch to Linux (from a Former Windows User's
Perspective)
* Linux Comes to Bars and Restaurants
* Accessing Linux Partitions from Win32 Made Easier
* Windows Vista No Threat to Accelerating Linux Adoption
* Review of the Latest Xandros Linux
* More Games Being Ported to Linux
* Company Lets Wi-Fi Patent Lawsuits Fly
* Connecting Windows Vista to the Internet "Not Wise"
* Futurist Suggests Taking Education Online (with FOSS?)
* Iowa Hears About Microsoft Conspiracies, Retaliations, Fight
Against Competitors
* GParted 0.3.2 Released; Free Software Magazine Issue Too
* Development for Linux Gets Boost from IBM
* Gaming is a Reality in Mobile Linux
* Novell Plays Microsoft's Way
* Open Source Software Targetted at Governments
* Linux Success Story (Case Study) and Microsoft's Hand on the Issue ...

In article ,
Rockboy rockboy.net> wrote:

Because you can do things on Macs that would make it so you would want a
firewall. What makes you think he is doing any of those things?

Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?

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| Who will implement Open XML correctly and fully? Maybe Microsoft.
| Why? Since it is essentially a dump into XML of all the data
| needed for all the functionality of their Office products...

In article ,
Jim Richardson eskimo.com> wrote:

Speaking of tarballs, here's a little oddity on the Mac. If you have a
compressed tarball, say foo.tar.gz, and double-click it, the Mac expands
a copy into foo.tar, and then expands a copy of that into foo. So, you
end up with foo.tar.gz, foo.tar, and foo.

However, if the original file is named foo.tgz, then double-clicking it
just gives you foo.

There is a nice touch they did on expanding tarballs (and zip files):
they always expand to exactly one item (well, I suppose an empty one
would expand to zero items...). That is, if there is either a single
file in the tarball or zip, or there is a single directory, you get that
single file or directory. If, however, there are multiple top-level
items in the tarball or zip, you get a folder named after the tarball or
zip file, containing those items.

Iona open source ESB melds multiple technologies

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| Through this model, the company will provide the software for
| free under an open source paradigm while selling subscriptions
| for ancillary services and support. In development for about18
| months, Celtix mixes in pieces from multiple open source
| projects and offers capabilities for service routing and
| messaging.