InfoWorld: IT vendors push for open-standards health network

======================================================================== LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE REPORT http://www.infoworld.com ======================================================================== Wednesday, February 2, 2005 * Sun introduces OpenSolaris, releases 1,670 patents * IBM goes silent on Linux desktop effort * HP, IBM, Sun boost enterprise grids * Compuware, Infragistics bolster dev tool interfaces * Novell, Red Hat ready for OS battle * Study: Linux servers safer than ever -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ADVERTISEMENT SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: HYPERION BI PLATFORM ON RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX Join February 9th 10:00 am PST for this one hour webcast with RedHat and Hyperion and learn how customers like RCI Finance SA are applying the power and economy of Linux to a processing intensive solution where speed, scalability and rock-solid reliability are crucial to business performance http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=B38932:353CA35 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ====================================================================== SUN INTRODUCES OPENSOLARIS, RELEASES 1,670 PATENTS Sun Microsystems on Tuesday launched its OpenSolaris program, which provides access to the Solaris operating system via an open source format, and also announced the release of 1,670 patents to the open source community. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=B3891E:353CA35 ====================================================================== IBM GOES SILENT ON LINUX DESKTOP EFFORT More than a year after IBM's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop by the end of 2005, IBM has significantly toned down its rhetoric on the subject of open-source clients. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=B38920:353CA35 ====================================================================== HP, IBM, SUN BOOST ENTERPRISE GRIDS Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems will this week announce an effort they are spearheading to extend the open source Globus Toolkit for grid technologies to commercial enterprise deployments. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=B38922:353CA35 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ADVERTISEMENT SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: HYPERION BI PLATFORM ON RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX Join February 9th 10:00 am PST for this one hour webcast with RedHat and Hyperion and learn how customers like RCI Finance SA are applying the power and economy of Linux to a processing intensive solution where speed, scalability and rock-solid reliability are crucial to business performance http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=B38932:353CA35 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ====================================================================== COMPUWARE, INFRAGISTICS BOLSTER DEV TOOL INTERFACES User interface building is a focal point of announcements Monday by Compuware, which is introducing Java products, and Infragistics, which is unwrapping tools for .Net developers. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=B38921:353CA35 ====================================================================== NOVELL, RED HAT READY FOR OS BATTLE Red Hat and Novell will ratchet up their one-on-one competition in the Linux operating system wars next month when each company delivers significant upgrades to their respective server-based products. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=B38923:353CA35 ====================================================================== STUDY: LINUX SERVERS SAFER THAN EVER Attackers are no longer bothering to attack average Linux systems, because there's so much more money to be made from invading Windows, according to security researchers. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=B3891F:353CA35 ====================================================================== -- 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