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From: Frederick Noronha (FN) (fred_at_bytesforall.org)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: 27 May 2004 11:10:07 GMT

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LINUX-BASED Servers: Rise of the Penguin
LinuxInsider.com - Encino,CA,USA
By Lynn Greiner. Worldwide, unit shipments grew by 52.5 per cent in 2003.
"Linux server growth continued to accelerate," commented Jean Bozman,
research vice ...
<http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/34023.html>
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ORACLE'S Linux makeover complete this year
ZDNet.com - USA
NEW YORK--Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming
staff to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said Wednesday.
...
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WHAT About the Linux End Users?
Linux World - Montvale,NJ,United States
On Monday, Linus Torvalds announced that software developers making contributions
to Linux would have to “sign their work” and “vouch for its origin
...
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SCO Shakes Up Industry But Linux Moves On
Enterprise Linux I.T. - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
By Syndication. If SCO's strategy was to create uncertainty about Linux,
the company has not been successful, says analyst Charles King. ...
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SUN Insists Red Hat Linux Is Proprietary
eWeek - USA
... Jonathan Schwartz says that he knows proprietary when he sees it and
that Red Hat Inc.'s enterprise operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
is proprietary. ...
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ORACLE Builds World's Largest Linux-Based Development ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
More than 9,000 Developers Worldwide to Leverage Linux REDWOOD SHORES,
Calif., May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With more than 9,000 developers
slated to ...
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MS to Try and Steal Linux's HPC Thunder?
Linux World - Montvale,NJ,United States
Not content with delaying Longhorn to make it "as Linux and open-source
unfriendly as humanly possible," as one critic has expressed it, Microsoft
has ...
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GARTNER: Rapid Linux growth boosts server market
InfoWorld - San Mateo,CA,USA
... increased by 27.1 percent in the first quarter of 2004 to 1.57 million
units, with a clear move by users towards low-end servers and the Linux
operating system ...
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NOVELL'S Big Linux Year
InternetNews.com - USA
A year after launching its Linux support with Netware 7 and six months
after acquiring SUSE Linux, networking software maker Novell (Quote, Chart)
is seeing ...
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DESKTOP Linux Strengthens Its Commitment in Latin America
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Lindows, Inc. announced the opening of its Mexico office to better
service the company's desktop Linux business in Latin America. The ...
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