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Linux Pipeline Newsletter www.LinuxPipeline.com Tuesday, August 17, 2004 In This Issue: - Munich Presses On With Microsoft-to-Linux Move - Embedded Linux Gains On Microsoft, Wind River - Microsoft To Send Cut-rate Windows XP To Asia - SCO Considers Upping 'Linux' Licensing Fee - American Arium Unveils Linux Debugging Solutions - The Big And The Small Of IT Security - How To Compete Against Microsoft - Entry-Level Market Opens For Sun's Low-End Servers - The Feds Get Cozier With Open Source - Intellectual Property Law Threatens Innovation Blades can significantly lower your total cost of ownership by reducing space utilization, improving efficiency, increasing system availability, and reducing management costs. Now get started affordably, with 33% savings on HP BL20p Blade Server bundles. http://www.techweb.com/pipeline/hpblades0804 ----------------------------------------- Editor's Note: Get 'Em When They're Young 1. Editor's Note: Get 'Em When They're Young A Microsoft announcement a few weeks ago passed largely unnoticed, at least compared to the big stories of the day. The company stated that it would market cheap, lightweight versions of its Visual Studio and SQL Server development tools. Microsoft's stated goal is to grab "the next generation of IT professionals" while they're still learning the ropes of software development. http://www.developerpipeline.com/22104566 There's an important subtext here: Microsoft wants to get its development products into the hands of young programmers who are just deciding which tools to use. Those decisions, in turn, will affect their long-term choices about which platform to focus on as they continue their educations and eventually enter the work force. In certain fields, students follow a time-honored tradition when they need software tools: They steal them. Try to find a graphic designer who paid for their first copy of Photoshop or Illustrator, and you might die of old age first. Novice developers, of course, have another option: a wealth of open-source programming tools, server software and other free toys, many of which are exactly the same as the tools they'll eventually use on their first paying gigs. Microsoft is also marketing its Express tools to hobbyists, casual developers (including the communities growing around e-commerce sites such as Amazon.com and eBay) and non-technical business users who can use them for prototyping and simple development projects. But given the company's existing strong push into high school and college computer science programs, it's clear where these tools could have the biggest long-term impact. Will Redmond's cradle-robbing offensive pay off years down the road? A lot depends on whether open-source vendors respond with versions of their tools that emphasize usability and role-based development environments--exactly the sort of thing that Eclipse 3.0 is doing today. If the open-source community is going to win over the next generation of developers, they'll have to start thinking further ahead and giving students a practical set of educational tools.
Matthew McKenzie Munich Presses On With Microsoft-to-Linux Move The mayor of Munich urged the EU to clarify the patent controversy, which could nullify Munich's move to Linux.
Embedded Linux Gains On Microsoft, Wind River
Microsoft To Send Cut-rate Windows XP To Asia
SCO Considers Upping 'Linux' Licensing Fee
American Arium Unveils Linux Debugging Solutions Editor's Picks FEATURE: The Big And The Small Of IT Security Enterprise security vendors are targeting the small-business market with scaled-down versions of their staple products. But do these more complex solutions make sense for small companies?
OPINION: How To Compete Against Microsoft
FEATURE: Entry-Level Market Opens For Sun's Low-End Servers
FEATURE: The Feds Get Cozier With Open Source
OPINION: Intellectual Property Law Threatens Innovation Cast Your Vote Now! Best user interface: KDE, GNOME, Command line, other?
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