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Dishin' the Dirt at LinuxWorld
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Few at LinuxWorld would dispute the increasing interest in Linux, although some would argue that the growing attention is a good thing, bringing many new products and services to the market.
"Just look at all the cool stuff," said Jerry Adams, a systems administrator and Linux programmer, surveying a tradeshow floor heaped with
new and improved hardware and software. "Toys everywhere. It's like Christmas."
Among the products and services announced at the show:
Oracle revealed that it has made the source code to its clustered file systems available as a free download.
IBM, having restrained itself from spray-painting Linux logos on San Francisco's streets after being fined for that activity last year,
decided to show its love for Linux more simply: It displayed several Linux-based products, including two new rackmount servers built
around Intel Xeon processors.
IBM also announced a partnership with VA Software, owner of geek-beloved websites Slashdot and SourceForge. The latter site, which
hosts thousands of open-source projects, will now be housed on IBM's DB2 server.
The Open Source Development Lab, a nonprofit research lab funded by IBM, Intel and other industry heavyweights, is demonstrating a
super scalable and stable version of Linux, intended specifically for network carriers and data centers. That product was announced to the
world at last year's LinuxWorld.
Representatives from another new project -- United Linux -- will show off the development consortium's work which melds features from
Linux distributors SuSE Linux, Caldera International, TurboLinux and Conectiva into a standardized Linux distribution.
CodeWeavers announced the beta release of CrossOver Office Server Edition Version 1.2. The Server Edition, like CrossOver Office,
allows users to operate popular Windows software over Linux and Solaris servers. CrossOver Office Server Edition 1.2 supports the same
core applications as CrossOver Office 1.2, including Microsoft Office, Outlook and Internet Explorer. It also supports Lotus Notes, Intuit's
Quicken, and Visio 2000, Microsoft's business and technical diagramming application.
And Xandros plans to follow up last year's LinuxWorld announcement that it would take over Corel's Linux development efforts with demos
of beta versions of its software.
Reasons to switch are becoming impossible to ignore. MSFT already makes a "Linux" (FreeBSD) version of Office. (Max OS X) $460 is very pricey however.
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