LINUX PIPELINE NEWSLETTER
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

In This Issue
1. Editor's Note: Open Source, Proprietary Vendors Force Change
On Each Other
2. Sun, Microsoft To Cooperate On Single Sign-On 
3. Microsoft To Explore Cheap Software With Asian Governments 
4. Embedded Software Vendors Shift Tactics In Linux's Shadow
5. Sun Open Sources 'Looking Glass' Desktop
6. JavaOne To Spotlight Java Desktop, Developer Tools
7. JBoss To Show Java Industry Solidarity At JavaOne  
8. More Linux And Open Source News
9. Survey: What's The State Of The IT Industry?
10. This Week's Top Story From Server Pipeline
  - Liquid Cooling Can Prevent A Data Center Melt Down
11. Shameless Self-Promotion

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1. EDITOR'S NOTE: Open Source, Proprietary Vendors Force Change
On Each Other

This week finds open source and proprietary vendors making
maneuvers in response to competitive threats they pose to each
other. Mostly, these maneuvers involve Microsoft. 

Sun Microsystems said it plans to work with Microsoft to develop
single sign-on technology for networks. Then, the two companies
will work together to unify Java and Microsoft .Net. CRN writer
Elizabeth Montalbano explains the background: "After years of
animosity, Sun and Microsoft in early April signed a 10-year pact
to collaborate on technology interoperability. Microsoft also
paid Sun $2.4 billion to settle the companies' pending lawsuits
over Java licensing."

Microsoft and Sun both claim their alliance is not anti-Linux,
which is about as believable as a Hollywood starlet claiming she
never had plastic surgery. 

Microsoft also said on Tuesday that it's holding talks with Asian
governments to provide inexpensive, cut-down versions of Windows.
The stated reason: to help the poor. That's certainly true, given
Gates's philanthropy record - but it's also true that Windows is
getting hottest competition in Third World countries that can't
afford Windows 

Of course, you have to wonder whether it makes more sense for
poor people, with incomes of just a few hundred dollars a year,
to pay for a software product when they can get the equivalent
for free. If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you
give him an open source fish, he ... if you charge licensing fees
for the fishing rods ... well, that doesn't make sense at all,
does it? I need to work on that metaphor. 

Microsoft on Monday introduced changes to the licensing terms of
Windows CE. The changes let developers modify and redistribute
Windows CE source code. 

Interestingly, Microsoft says its Windows CE licensing program is
superior to the Linux General Public License (GPL) because
Microsoft's license allows creators of derivative work to keep
that work proprietary. They're not required to share their work
with anyone, not even Microsoft. Linux developers must share
their work with everyone, including competitors. 

That's similar to the argument raised by FreeBSD advocates, who
tout their licensing scheme as a means of allowing developers to
have the benefits of open source while keeping their own work
proprietary. 

Linux advocates counter that the GPL is superior because
developers benefit more by being able to share others' work than
they do by keeping their work proprietary. 

I suspect the reality is that this is one of those false
dichotomies created by extremists on both sides (and by editorial
writers - oh, heavens, that's ME, isn't it?! Goodness!). Some
licenses will be best for some applications, others for others. 

Sun said Tuesday it is opening the source code to its "Looking
Glass," an innovative, 3-D Linux desktop that allows users to
turn windows on edge or at an oblique angle or make them appear
to move off into the distance. Sun also opened the Java 3D API,
and JDesktop Integration Components.

JBoss is making a show of Linux industry solidarity at JavaOne
this week, the first time the open source company has exhibited
there. Previously, JBoss boycotted the conference to protest that
JBoss didn't have a J2EE license from Sun. 

And BEA defended its decision not to join the Eclipse Foundation,
saying it has no desire to build its WebLogic Workshop tool on
the Eclipse integrated development environment. 

--Mitch Wagner, Editor
Linux Pipeline
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/
mailto:mwagner@cmp.com?Subject=LPNfeedback

For more commentary and links from Mitch Wagner, see Wagner's
Weblog
http://wagblog.internetweek.com

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2. Sun, Microsoft To Cooperate On Single Sign-On 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/22102845
After that: interoperability between Sun Java and Microsoft .Net.

3. Microsoft To Explore Cheap Software With Asian Governments 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/22102838
Microsoft will hold talks with Asian governments to offer cut-
down Windows to help the poor - and fend off competition from
Linux.

4. Embedded Software Vendors Shift Tactics In Linux's Shadow
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/trends/22102429
Microsoft and Wind River are trying to make their technologies
more attractive to developers of embedded systems.

5. Sun Open Sources 'Looking Glass' Desktop
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=22102657
The company is also open-sourcing the Java 3D API, and JDesktop
Integration Components.

6. JavaOne To Spotlight Java Desktop, Developer Tools
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=22102419
The conference will also feature open-source efforts from BEA
Systems and JBoss.

7.  JBoss To Show Java Industry Solidarity At JavaOne  
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=22102181
JBoss' attendance at the upcoming JavaOne Conference in San
Francisco and their collaboration with other vendors on the
Enterprise JavaBeans spec shows that a lot can change in a year.

8. MORE LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS:

Novell, Red Hat To Support Linux RealMedia Player 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=22102460
Novell will provide distribution of RealPlayer 10 for Linux, and
Red Hat will add the open-source version to the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 update.

BEA Executive Defends Decision Not To Join Eclipse 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=22101944

HP Rolls Out Server With Linux Clustering Technology
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=22101794

9. WHAT'S THE STATE OF THE IT INDUSTRY?
Take our survey and help us find out! Are IT salaries going up or
down? Could your IT job be outsourced? Are companies taking
security threats seriously enough? Is your competition gearing up
to spend now on technology for an expected recovery? The editors
of TechWeb's Pipeline publications request three minutes of your
time to take our anonymous survey that addresses these
questions.
In exchange, all participants who complete the survey will be
given the opportunity to receive an executive summary of the
results. C'mon, three minutes is all it takes:
http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/11564/stateofit_june04.htm

10. THIS WEEK'S TOP STORY FROM SERVER PIPELINE

Liquid Cooling Can Prevent A Data Center Melt Down
http://www.serverpipeline.com/trends/22102352
The way things are going now, it won't be long before heat
generated in the data center starts to become a larger and larger
problem. A liquid-cooled computer may be in your future.

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