Fresh fields for open source

roundup Novell uses the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco to tout open-source advances and take jabs at an antagonist. In Boston, meanwhile, Sun indicates that it is not inclined to take up IBM's offer to help make Java open source.

Sun reluctant to make Java open source
update The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards.
March 17, 2004

Novell chides SCO over copyright suits Chris Stone, vice chairman, Novell

Novell plugs open source, dings SCO
A Novell executive says the intellectual property foundations of open-source software are sound. "Sorry, Darl," he says in a jab at SCO chief Darl McBride.
March 16, 2004

Lindows asks court to nix overseas lawsuits
In the latest legal battle with Microsoft, the open-source OS maker requests that the software giant be barred from filing another trademark suit against it overseas.
March 16, 2004

XML guru joins Sun software
Tim Bray, one of the authors of the XML 1.0 specification, becomes technical director in the software group and will work on content syndication and advanced search.
March 15, 2004

MySQL database to get high-end feature
The popular open-source applications is set to get support for clustering, a feature that lets one or more databases take over if another fails.
March 15, 2004

HP expands Linux PC line to Asia
The computers, which are geared toward business buyers, will run Turbolinux's software, a version of the open-source operating system based on Novell's SuSE Linux.
March 15, 2004