[PLUG] News from the Linux World

[Rich Shepard]

IBM RESPONDS TO SCO'S $1 BILLION COMPLAINT
     (Source: LinuxWorld.com) Didn't do it. That's the clear
message IBM sent with its reply to The SCO Group's $1 billion
lawsuit in which it accuses Big Blue of illegally trying to
damage Unix to build up Linux. [IDG News Service]
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742313

SCO THREATS HANG OVER LINUX ARENA
     (Source: Network World Fusion) While it is unclear how SCO's
actions and the outcome of the lawsuit ultimately will affect
Linux, the matter -- the first intellectual property complaint
related to Linux -- nevertheless is having ripple effects
throughout the open-source community.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742314

CAN YOU BET THE SERVER FARM ON HP?
     (Source: InfoWorld.com) One year later, a post-merger
Hewlett-Packard is still tilling the soil to prove it made the
right technology decisions.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742315

IT WORKFORCE DEMAND LOWEST IN FOUR YEARS
     (Source: Computerworld) IT workers looking for jobs in the
U.S. have nothing to cheer about in the latest workforce survey
released by the Information Technology Association of America.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742316

DO SOFTWARE FIRMS HAVE A BRIGHT FUTURE?
     (Source: InfoWorld.com) In the midst of Silicon Valley's
biggest downturn in years, two of the industry's biggest names
have taken opposing views on whether the software business will
return to life: Larry Ellison kicked off the great debate at the
start of the year by declaring that the industry's best days are
over.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742318

WINDOWS 2003 COMPATIBILITY ISSUES UPSET SOME IT PROS
     (Source: Computerworld) Users hoping to upgrade to Windows
Server 2003 and run older versions of Microsoft's most popular
server applications will find limited options.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742319

GETTING THE OPERATING SYSTEM MESSAGE OUT?
     (Source: Network World Fusion) Opinion | Microsoft's Steve
Ballmer kept his coat and tie on and rarely raised his voice or
his hands during the introduction of Windows Server 2003. Could
it be that Microsoft finally realizes that network operating
systems are all about conducting business and sharing databases,
documents and spreadsheets? [Dave Kearns]
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742320

CAN SPAM BE STOPPED?
     (Source: Computerworld) Panelists at an ongoing FTC spam
conference couldn't even agree on the definition of spam, with
some antispam advocates saying spam is all unsolicited bulk
e-mail and some e-mail marketers arguing that spam should be
defined more narrowly as unsolicited commercial e-mail that
includes false subject lines or misleading e-mail headers.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742321

TIME FOR A NEW INSTALLATION PARADIGM, PART 3
     (Source: LinuxWorld.com) Given that the GNU utilities
accomplish the more difficult goal of cross-platform
compatibility, it shouldn't be at all difficult to design a
packaging system that solves the compatibility problems between
distributions of the same Unix system.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742322

MORE 64 FOR LINUX
     (Source: Network World Fusion) Hot on the heels of Advanced
Micro Devices' launch last week of its Opteron 64-bit processor
(also know as the AMD64), several Linux vendors promptly threw
their hat into the AMD ring.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742323