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Also, yet another article about Secunia, very interesting: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/print.php/217 0381
It seems they have a very "free as in freedom" view on security, etc.
"We believe that security information should be free, so that administrators can patch their systems and software developers can learn from the mistakes made by others. All the security researchers and experts who posts to Full-Disclosure, VulnWatch and Secunia wants their research to be free and available we owe them that much," Kristensen declared.

Good news, everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good news, everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or NetBSD
Enjoy!

Yeah, WHATEVER, SBC...

I'm still waiting for SBC's Project Pronto.

Where'd that go? Well, it went nowhere fast

Sometimes I wonder if SBC says these things just to scare away their competition.

His techniques allow someone to set up a cryptographically secure network that most likely completely ignores firewalls. It features high bandwidth-high latency connection, low bandwidth-low latency connections and is virtually untraceable, even to both parties involved in the connection. An initial hostname and time would act as the 'phonenumber'. (By keeping a certain request alive, one can even implement a dailing service with TTL delay.) A message service is freely included.

It is virtually impossible to shut these networks down without replacing/patching dns. Not an easy task.
The bandwidth available to this network most likely exceeds that of most irc-botnets. Especially since the root servers are defending themselves against DDoS attacks.

The tools he's still developing might be able to trace these things but it will still require cooperation of dns server administrators (to get their logs). You will never get them all and you'll have a LOT data to process. Accorfing to this the ICS root server continuosly handles almost 8Mbps (and can handle upto 80Mbps) of traffic. I seriously doubt they can log that... (if so, transferring the logs would continually consume a healthy percent of the servers bandwidth.)

Pretty smart man indeed and very idealistic or shortsighted. Both the right and the wrong sort of people would pay a lot of money for that...

The likelihood of getting nailed behind a Linksys while you're patching the system is pretty slim.

I would respectfully disagree with this statement. Please see this article regarding Linksys routers or this article concerning Netgear routers.

Just set up a VPN and start patching. It's a more realitic approach than all the other singing and dancing.

Is it really? This idea of "I have a firewall and I am OK" is very problematic. There are several layers of defense that must be employed to provide a reasonable amount of protection. Simply relying one firewall with somewhat limited capablities is folly.

Google shuts down RSS Google News Feed

Just in case someone is still wondering, on this article Apple's senior director of desktop product marketing confirms that (in at least the 2.5 GHz version) "The processor was built using the 90-nanometer process."

Right now it means NOTHING.... everyone is jumping to conclusions instead of RTFA'ing (shrug, I feel new here).

They are taking services from two other providers (I've used WebEx, it's a decent web conference) and allowing them to initiate a voice and/or web conference (multiple particpants). This is a new service for AOL and does not effect a one on one conversation or video conference in any way.

For what it's worth - Cingular and US Cellular may both be right. US Cellular's service was bought by AT&T in some markets (e.g. this license swap ), and AT&T screwed up number portability to a huge degree (e.g. one of many articles about half of all port complaints were just AT&T )

NAND Flash is what's making this possible. It's denser and faster than NOR Flash.

If you haven't heard of MRAM, that's definitely another technology to be on the lookout for. According to IBM and Infineon Technologies, it's supposed to start shipping this year.

Basically, it has the density of DRAM, 15ns access time, and doesn't loses it's state even when powered down.

Google turns up some articles: here, here, and here.

Before you all continue talking about how winamp is great and all, I think you should know that the history is not so nice. Especially when Justin Frankel says "In 1997 I ported AMP (a free mp3 decoder at the time)". AMP code was free for non-commercial use, but...

Check out this and this and this.

What Frankel "forgot" to mention is that Nullsoft made money without even mentioning that they used AMP code, and only after they got sued, Nullsoft "admitted" that they used "a bit of AMP code" which just so happens that it's an important part of the decoder thingie...

So, all is well in corporate world... :|

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 359981

How he got caught.

There are competitors to Akamai. One is Speedera, who are much cheaper. Of course, they allegedly achieved this by stealing Akamai's trade secrets.

Internetnews has this take on the story.

Yep! http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/1079 6_2119751

Moderators disagree? :) Ok I'll back it up my reasoning (and try to speak slower):
"Another strategy Miguel discussed was about moving as many F/OSS applications as possible to Windows in order to familiarize the casual users with open source."

It is not easy to move Linux/Unix stuff to Windows. It is expensive - costs the developers time and effort, and there are other costs supporting a rather different architecture- look at the various apache-win bugs. And what does that gain Linux and the rest? More Windows software. Wow, great move that.

What next? Get people to write more native windows software, instead of just porting Linux apps to windows? Oh yah he's trying that too:

"Another Microsoft spokesperson told internetnews.com that, "Mono is just one example of the level of excitement within the developer community around .NET," he said. "At this point, we have millions of developers building .NET connected applications." "

Insert image of MS spokesperson "rubbing hands with glee" - More Windows software.

If more Linux developers write Mono software for Linux and Mono software runs on Windows with no modifications, AND MS office and other Windows-only software doesn't run on Linux.

THEN the software available for Windows increases more than software available for Linux. Go figure.

Do I need to talk slower and more loudly? Doh.

And what if there's an "embrace and extend" war? With some slight incompatibilities? Who wins? Mono-certified .Net apps or MS/Windows Logo certified?

And now this joker talks about the World Forcing the US into Linux if the EU doesn't do the US thing.

Doh. What next the World Forcing the US into signing the CO2 treaty? Sorry I must have lost track of which universe I was in. This must be the universe where the World forced the US into Iraq eh? And where Miguel ends up being the whole reason for the universe entire existence.

Why do you think Microsoft would have anything to do with it?

What hold you think Microsoft might have over Kodak?

Do you think Kodak owes Microsoft any favors?

Not anymore...
http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/3317211

(It's a link to the story about Microsoft including antivirus software in Windows XP Service Pack 2.)

This story would make you believe that the Red Hat Desktop is a Longhorn killer.
Basically if you read the whole Red Hat release it looks like $250 a user for a year of desktop support - which doesn't sound all that bad to me for a large environment...

I submitted this one earlier in the AM on Friday - but the powers that be didn't 'go for it '

This article looks at the end of the line for Red Hat LInux 9 and includes an interview with project leads for the Fedora Legacy project.

I was a little surprised by the internetnews.com article about Gentoo being used in the enterprise. Kurt Lieber (of Gentoo) even claims that "Gentoo is being widely used in corporations today", although his definition of "widely used" may be different than mine.

As great as Gentoo is, it's not high on the list of distros that I would have guessed the business world would embrace. Granted, Gentoo's flexibility does seem to make it well-suited for certain enterprise-level applications; and if Debian can be adapted for commercial consumption in the form of distributions like Xandros, then I suppose Gentoo could as well.

Lieber's target market is a niche market. While I certainly agree that Linux' future shouldn't be arbitrated by one or two vendors, I'm not convinced that the enterprise niche Lieber describes is best served by a commercial version of Gentoo. Regardless, it's unclear from the article whether or not he would actually commercialize Gentoo given the chance.

But the popularization of Gentoo's approach could have other connotations. It's easy to relegate Portage to the realm of Linux curiosities that never could have mainstream appeal. On the surface, it seems that way. But this is exactly the sort of system I would expect to see standardized once our network infrastructure and home computer technology matures to the point at which package acquisition and build time are negligible.

But for the time being, we're still a point at which we're trying to establish some solid standards in the Linux world, and as much as I want RPM to go away, it won't any time soon. So while I don't foresee Portage triggering any revolutions within the next few years, the concept will evolve and its day will come.

I have a sinking feeling that this auction business might lead to IPOs prices reminiscent of the dot com days. The average investor spends money on emotion and greed, not on business sense, so I could see a bunch of arm chair investors, who are longing for the 1998-2000 days, to drive this sucker up to insane proportions, at which time all the institutional investors will pull out, making the big bucks and causing the stock to fall back down to a sane price.

What might help abate a scenario like this, though, is that Google, according to this artile, "will add a process to try to keep a lid on IPO mania by requiring potential bidders for IPO shares to become certified." I don't know how one becomes "certified," but if done right it'll cut down on the number of people that can participate, and thereby keep prices more in line, I think.

I know that not having an auction means that only those connected investors (Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston) make out (and make out like bandits, to boot), but having a come-one-come-all auction could be a rude wakeup call for arm chair investors when they find that the $300/share price they paid for Google from little Jimmy's college fund was not money well spent.

I've been in the financial services industry since before this company was founded, and I've never heard of a comparable case.

With saying this:

All the way back to 1998, a whole six years ago. Now there's history for you. Almost dynastic in its scope..

Tell me, big investment man, is this unusual or not. I'm not sure I'll trust your answer having seen this piece of sparkling judgement from you:

The moral to me is to distrust Baystar as a potential investment partner.

You should already have known that Baystar is a Microsoft shill with poor judgement. Why would you have ever have trusted that?

What you might conclude is that the SCO stock fraud is coming undone sooner than expected. Must have been the whistle blower. Or was it was the federal put up or shut up order, or the complete lack of evidence produced before or after? It should be clear to even the dumbest, greediest "investor" that SCO never had anything but a big mouth and a purchased famous name.

He says Linus Torvalds is wrong.
As much as I respect Linus, I would much rather go with the word of a successful CTO than an unemployed code zealot.

Any expert opinions??

I don't get OSRM at all to be honest. Is it just a ploy by PJ/Groklaw and Perens to grab some cash???
HP was the first back in September to indemnify its customers, then IBM, Red Hat and others followed. Big companies may feel they need it and good for them.
The GPL license itself does offer any software warrantees and it never should and never will. Those of us that know and use the the stuff on a daily basis know the real deal.
internetnews.com had an article titled, "What do if SCO comes knocking" a few weeks back that was real interesting too...

Nat Friedman gave a keynote address on Desktop LInux the other day at the Real World LInux show. internetnews.com wrote a decent piece on it.

Somehow, I don't think that the Google killer will license Google's search.

hmmm... does seem a little odd.

since they've started talking about it, (e.g. news article - sep 2003) they seem to have been trying to pitch it as something to beat google, so is a surprise how heavily they have ended up relying on google!

The guys at internetnews.com wrote a good story on this whole thing that I've linked here

Just Don't Store Your Important Source Code On It.... :))))))))))))

The full effort is properly referred to ASIANUX and is heavily sponsored by ORACLE. Read about the initial announcement of ASIANUX at internetnews.com
They also have a story that just ran on Friday about ASIANUX hitting 1.0 Beta and signing up over 40 vendors for certification.

The full effort is properly referred to ASIANUX and is heavily sponsored by ORACLE. Read about the initial announcement of ASIANUX at internetnews.com
They also have a story that just ran on Friday about ASIANUX hitting 1.0 Beta and signing up over 40 vendors for certification.

The only way to subdue a larger opponent is to divide that opponent's forces and proceed to conquer them. Microsoft and any other large corporation knows this and uses it against any legal strategy which is brought against it. Our government is just too afraid to use it against them.

Remember that the original judgement order would have split Microsoft up. Remember also that they fought it tooth and nail because they knew that if it happened - then they really would have had problems.

Remember AT&T was split up and we got better phone service. IBM had to split up and we now have microcomputers that are so cheap you could work at MacDonald's and still buy one. Microsoft should be split up so software can evolve the way it should.

But then, Microsoft has enough money to buy anything and anyone. So the guy is right. When you are making so much money that you can thumb your nose at the law - who's laws do you live by? The answer is - no one's but your own. Someone giving you a hard time? Buy them off or buy someone who will remove the problem. And that doesn't mean you have to hire a hit man. You just need to hire/buy/create another company to put pressure on legislators, or do letter writing campaigns, or even just visit these people and hint that your company which brings vast wealth into the U.S. would leave and...well, I'm sure you get the picture.

So did the DOJ of Utah. If you have forgotten, remember that Microsoft was in big trouble with the State of Utah for creating a company which wrote ficticious letters to them asking for leniency in their case against Microsoft. IMHO - that is a $10,000.00 fine for each and every letter written and a 5-10 in jail for each offense. Since there were litterally thousands of letters we should never see Mr. Gates or anyone else who was in charge of Microsoft at the time ever again. Yet - there have been no arrests even though Microsoft admitted they had done this.

I think Mr. Roosevelt said it best:"...So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory."

We need victory. True victory and not hollow lapdog lickings. But all we have gotten so far is a pat on the head.

Later.

Microsoft has a rational for buying a telecoms company, considering the weak telecoms market at this moment.

People have to really consider that AOL is also a competitor that Microsoft wants to take out

But I cannot seem to find any history of restaments of earnings about this topic with microsoft.

but here you can read about the restatments from AOL to "reduce revenue by $190 million and would erase $97 million in qualified earnings from its books over a 21-month period"

It is very funny that Microsoft DID recently post a restatement of 2billion based on stock options, but I wonder if there was something else pidgonholed away in there.,
But veritas restated its earnings because of its dealings with AOL!

Tried submitting this a couple of times since yesterday but the submission system seems to have picked up a few bugs of its own where it says "Thanks for the submission" but nothing shows up in the queue. Here are the details...

Yahoo, Hotmail Users Vulnerable to XSS PC Attack

Both Yahoo Web e-mail and Microsoft Hotmail are vulnerable to an Internet Explorer cross-site scripting (XSS) attack that lets malicious users run local code, according to Israel's GreyMagic security consultants (proof of concept). Possible consequences range from theft of login and password to a remote takeover of the compromised machine. Reports indicate that Microsoft has patched the hole but Yahoo has yet to solve the problem. The vulnerability presumably affects Windows PC-based versions of Internet Explorer only. Some people might want to read this developerWorks article on how to prevent cross-site scripting and protect oneself, mentioned last month on Slashdot. More coverage at InternetNews and The Register.

So, from where I am viewing the market from the perspective of an end user, Apple's market position is looking pretty good to me.

Yeah, real good.

And what about all those announcements?

Microsoft asks Mac users, "How can we get your business?'

Merrill Lynch, whose technology group recently began coverage of Apple, noted in a research note last week that "open source and Mac adoption is still in infancy in the enterprise market." However, "we should see explosive growth in the years to come as corporations look to achieve cost savings within their IT departments."

Using IDC's own estimate for G5/OSX server shipments through 2007, as well as its internal data on OSX operating system attach rates and server pricing, Merrill reckons that the enterprise G5 market could be worth $529 million by 2007. "This represents a [compound annual growth rate] of 61 percent over the 5-year period from 2002-2007," the note said.

Japanese telco to aid Mac phone development

Mac, G5 systems move out enterprise's mainframe

New G5 chips, but no 64-bit OS X
for at least two years (too late).

"We're saying that OSX/G5s will eat Unix," Gantz said

Is Computer Associates contemplating dumping Windows?

If you have been following Microsoft attempts to hold onto counties, cities, states, governmental bodies, governments, corporations and people, you know the headlines have gone from talk to action.

The governments that are starting to move over tend to be mostly poorer countries, or ones with large, largely computer-free populaces. Brazil and China are good examples of this trend. In those places, OSX/G5 adoption has been picking up steam to the point that if a second world country told MS to take a hike, it would hardly rate a Slashdot story on a slow day.

THE NATIONAL HEALTH Service is considering using the OSX operating system; G5s in a 2.3 billion deal that could affect as many as 800,000 PCs if a pilot is successful.

Nine German cities poised to adopt OSX/G5

Official: China to invest in OSX/G5-based software industry

The US Army has abandoned Windows and chosen OSX for a key component of its "Land Warrior" programme, according to a report in National Defense Magazine. The move, initially covering a personal computing and communications device termed the Commander's Digital Assistant (CDA), follows the failure of the previous attempt at such a device in trials in February of this year, and is part of a move to make the device simpler and less breakable.

According to program manager Lt Col Dave Gallop this is part of a broader move towards OSX/G5 by the US Army: "Evidence shows that OSX is more stable. We are moving in general to where the Army is going, to OSX/G5-based OS."

Sun Microsystems is the odd man out. It has an impressive array of powerful enemies: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Red Hat, Apple, Novell, and more. It has only a weakened Oracle as a friend, and Oracle too has made a "bet the company" move to OSX/G5. OSX/G5 threatens many of Sun's traditional products as sharply as it threatens

Justly or unjustly, rightly or wrongly, they have already paid a heavy price for their underhand techniques, in the form of the mydoom worm. This clearly shows how much anger and resentment the society has against this vulture of an organisation.

Under these circumstances, it is highly unlikely that their legal action will work anywhere in the world. Even if MS pumps more money into SCO to damage Linux, it will not save SCO.

SCO can't kill Linux. What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.

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Here is an article on the event.

So, from where I am viewing the market from the perspective of an end user, Apple's market position is looking pretty good to me.

Yeah, real good.

And what about all those announcements?

Microsoft asks Mac users, "How can we get your business?'

Merrill Lynch, whose technology group recently began coverage of Apple, noted in a research note last week that "open source and Mac adoption is still in infancy in the enterprise market." However, "we should see explosive growth in the years to come as corporations look to achieve cost savings within their IT departments."

Using IDC's own estimate for G5/OSX server shipments through 2007, as well as its internal data on OSX operating system attach rates and server pricing, Merrill reckons that the enterprise G5 market could be worth $529 million by 2007. "This represents a [compound annual growth rate] of 61 percent over the 5-year period from 2002-2007," the note said.

Japanese telco to aid Mac phone development

Mac, G5 systems move out enterprise's mainframe

New G5 chips, but no 64-bit OS X for at least two years (too late).

"We're saying that OSX/G5s will eat Unix," Gantz said

Is Computer Associates contemplating dumping Windows?

If you have been following Microsoft attempts to hold onto counties, cities, states, governmental bodies, governments, corporations and people, you know the headlines have gone from talk to action.

The governments that are starting to move over tend to be mostly poorer countries, or ones with large, largely computer-free populaces. Brazil and China are good examples of this trend. In those places, OSX/G5 adoption has been picking up steam to the point that if a second world country told MS to take a hike, it would hardly rate a Slashdot story on a slow day.

THE NATIONAL HEALTH Service is considering using the OSX operating system; G5s in a 2.3 billion deal that could affect as many as 800,000 PCs if a pilot is successful.

Nine German cities poised to adopt OSX/G5

Official: China to invest in OSX/G5-based software industry

The US Army has abandoned Windows and chosen OSX for a key component of its "Land Warrior" programme, according to a report in National Defense Magazine. The move, initially covering a personal computing and communications device termed the Commander's Digital Assistant (CDA), follows the failure of the previous attempt at such a device in trials in February of this year, and is part of a move to make the device simpler and less breakable.

According to program manager Lt Col Dave Gallop this is part of a broader move towards OSX/G5 by the US Army: "Evidence shows that OSX is more stable. We are moving in general to where the Army is going, to OSX/G5-based OS."

Sun Microsystems is the odd man out. It has an impressive array of powerful enemies: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Red Hat, Apple, Novell, and more. It has only a weakened Oracle as a friend, and Oracle too has made a "bet the company" move to OSX/G5. OSX/G5 threatens many of Sun's traditional products as sharply as it threatens Micr

After worldcom imploded, everyone looked to put the blame on them, but forget to ask about the partners in crime.

Simlar to the illegal practice of swapping bandwidth at the end of the quarter to inflate the value of the company that worldcom, quest and colt were involved in was also practiced by AOL.

But AOL has been deeply involved in Worldcom, as well as Microsoft with both of them.

Worldcom was also hugly overvalued, and way buying up company left and right, until the bubble burst when the MCI merger blew up.

The real question at hand is, when will the AOL bubble burst?

Or is there more to the Microsoft Worldcom AOL Triangle that will we find out when more people lose thier pension funds?

It is also a question, what is the real value of Microsoft? How much of it is hyperinflated, and what if it turns into another worldcom with cooked books full of accounting tricks. If it is anything like its partners, I would not be suprised if they were involved in such practices with them.

Also, Why is it that microsoft was interested in buying corrupt companies like Worldcom?

Look. TiVo won't die. So the reviewer says he likes ReplayTV better and that TiVo won't dominate the market in years to come.

First off, the article states explicitly that the author prefers TiVo to Replay and all of its alternatives.

Secondly, he states that as much as he loves TiVo, he thinks they're doomed. As much as I love TiVo, I can't bury my head in the sand and assume they won't die just because I don't want them to.

The PVR market is already changing, and TiVo needs to get ahead of the trends in order to stay competitive. Standalone boxes will most likely go away in the next 3-5 years. TVs will come equipped with PVR functionality and have built-in cable tuners, thanks to the cable card specification.

TiVo has done a brilliant job with its UI and it's light-years ahead of other manufacturers in terms of partnerships with consumer electronics manufacturers, and its deal with DirecTV is heavily driving growth in its customer base, but the future is about building PVR functionality into TVs or cable boxes, and TiVo has no cable-box partnerships and hasn't shown any signs of being able to penetrate that market.

Now, on to my criticisms of the article. Louderback assumes that the HD-capable DirecTV TiVo receiver will stay at $1000 for any length of time. He's clearly wrong on that. The price will come down quickly once DirecTV determines that HD TiVo ownership drives subscriptions to HD content. The manufacturing costs will decline as volume increases and the prices of 250GB HDs falls, which will encourage DirecTV to eventually subsidize the price of the receiver to drive sales of HD packages.

And likewise, the cable set-top box market might dry up and blow away entirely once cable card-enabled TVs start to hit the market. And TiVo will be able to sell standalone TiVos that could replace cable set-top boxes for customers who have older TVs. Yes, TiVo suffers a price disadvantage compared to the offerings of the cable companies, who are looking to "lock in" subscribers, but the advent of cable card will negate some of the lock-in advantage anyway.

At any rate, it's difficult to predict the future. I think Louderback's column was more intended as a shot across TiVo's bow than a true prediction of their death. I think he wants them to sit up and take notice of the threats that surround them so that they can devise adequate solutions to their problems, and I think he'd desperately like for them to return his calls or emails.

PHP is good enough for Yahoo, and they have more traffic than CNN does.

Obviously, you are an email admin, not a developer.

First... Notes is more than just email, in fact email is just a tiny part of it. Consider that the record-breaking websites for several Olympic Games were run on Notes/Domino. ("The Nagano Olympics and Wimbledon sites served record numbers of hits per day (630 million).")

Notes/Domino has been a model for incorporating standards into a development platform. They were one of the first to start using OLE/DDE over a decade ago and one of the first 4GLs to incorporate HTML and Java in the 90's. Right now, it has everything from XML/HTML/Java/J2EE to actually being an LDAP server when you want it to. Oh, and they don't implement these standards the way Microsoft does, they are actually very, very open. Which reminds me, they support Linux, OSS and there are even personal efforts on that front.

Oh, and I think you misrepresent what your article link states.... Notes is not 'hard to get rid of' because of thick clients, it's hard to get rid of such a valuable development platform.
p.s. Websphere Portal was moved UNDER the Lotus Software division, it's not dead, it's growing !

Please learn a bit more, then get back to me ;)

Well, let's see...

• DaimlerChrysler is testing the Nokia Communicator, which "runs on an operating system from Nokia-controlled Symbian, a rival to Microsoft's Windows Mobile" ... " also promoting it as an alternative for companies that do not want to use only Microsoft software."
• DaimlerChrysler Corp. is working on a Linux-based management and navigation system for its cars.
• Related company: DaimlerChrysler Services used Unix and IBM software to merge its financial systems.
• Reporters say that DaimlerChrysler did not like Microsoft's annuity licensing plan and was examining Linux.
• DC using IBM Linux for car crash simulations.
• DC is a German/US merger, as is Novell/SuSe. Affecting DC may affect SuSe in its home market
• "IBM and the German government are getting together to implement Linux as the government's computing platform of choice."
• June 17, 1999, the Financial Post, Canada, Business Group Makes Push for Software Competition (pdf)

  The Canada Europe Round Table, launched yesterday, wants governments to take the lead in using operating systems such as Linux instead of Microsoft's proprietary Windows. The group of 28 companies -- which includes Bombardier Inc., Nortel Networks Corp., Corel Corp., DaimlerChrysler AG and Ericsson AG of Sweden -- suggests "competitive systems" such as Linux should be endorsed at the next round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks. ... "CERT member Corel" ...

• "Ferrari, Volvo and DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler Group are among the companies that have turned to IBM for systems built around Linux."
• DaimlerChrysler Services Management Awarded 'Best Service' for Progress-Based Application With SonicMQ Integration: Award-winner Uses Progress(R) OpenEdge(TM) (Both Progress and SonicMQ can run on Unix/Linux)
• MySQL has acquired full commercial rights to develop and market future releases of SAP DB, of which there are roughly 5,000 customer installations. SAP DB users include Intel, DaimlerChrysler, Braun, Bayer, Colgate, Yamaha and Toyota South Africa. MySQL and SAP are also developing a future MySQL enterprise database that uses both MySQL and MaxDB.
• DC has been a user of MS products (2003)

AutoZone...

• SCO had claimed that IBM interfered with a contract (which SCO has not provided) and helped AutoZone migrate from SCO software to Linux. But there already is evidence that AutoZone used no SCO software after the change and its own employees did the change. The same statement also indicates that SCO drove AutoZone away, not that IBM interfered. The Red Hat distribution and support was chosen.
• AutoZone is using Wincor Nixdorf Linux store/POS tools.
  Wincor Nixdorf customers:

  * AutoZone * Books-

1. SCO owns every single line of code in Linux; or,
2. SCO has been distributing code that is others' copyrighted property, with no license or other legal right to do so.

It looks like Autozone has been using Redhat since 1999.

Too bad about the recently discovered DDos bug...

Apparently paid a million or more of but had access to a ten million
legal defense fund, so I think this is a more likely explanation.

Give this company no peace, something has passed under the table.