Right next to my desk in a bookshelf is my 1988 copy of Kernighan and Ritchie’s the second edition of The C Programming Language. I’ve kept this book, the ur-text of C programming, because C has always been the first language of Unix and Linux and I like to be able to read source code. [...]
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C is number one!
April 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Development · JEE · Java · Linux · Mac OS X · Open Source · Operating System · Unix
Novell Wins! SCO Loses!
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Ding Dong! The SCO is dead. Which old SCO? The Wicked SCO! Ding Dong! The Wicked SCO is dead! Yes, it’s true. After just more than 7-years of SCO lawsuits, SCO has lost its last real chance of causing Linux and the companies that support it-IBM; Novell, and Red Hat–any real trouble. In a U.S. [...]
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Is this the end for SCO?
March 29th, 2010 · Comments Off
I’ve given up on predicting when the zombie movie series staring the undead SCO monster is finally going to stay quietly in its grave Still, this week a jury is deciding whether SCO or Novell owns Unix’s intellectual property rights. You may have thought that this was settled. Most of us who followed SCO certainly [...]
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The Linux of Stock Markets
March 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Today’s news that TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange) has moved to Red Hat’s RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) as the operating platform for its next-generation “Arrowhead” trading system shouldn’t come as any surprise. Linux has become the smart stock market’s operating system of choice. Red Hat has been working with TSE and Fujitsu for some time [...]
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What happens to Sun’s open-source software now?
February 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The deal is done. Oracle now owns Sun. Oracle’s main message to Sun’s customers seems to be “Don’t worry, be happy.” That’s not easy when Oracle is not explaining in any detail what it will be doing with open-source software offerings like MySQL, OpenOffice, and OpenSolaris. In general, we know that Sun’s software product catalog [...]
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