[wellylug] InfoWorld: Lindows becomes 'Lin---s' in Europe

[Klenner, Colin]

Forwarded from Infoworld

~
LINUX REPORT 
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
  
Lindows becomes 'Lin---s' in Europe
Posted February 17, 5:18 p.m. Pacific Time

Following court orders barring the Lindows name, Linux vendor Lindows.com
Inc. has changed its name in several European countries to Lin---s,
pronounced Lindash.   

APM under the microscope
Posted February 13, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time

APM (application performance management) is a lot like exercise: Everyone
knows they need it, but only a fraction practice it consistently, citing
high costs and lengthy deployment times as excuses.  

Oracle finds Linux taking hold in India
Posted February 13, 2:59 p.m. Pacific Time

Linux received a vote of support as a platform for corporate business
applications this week as Oracle Corp. announced that seven of its new
customers in India have chosen to run the company's technology and
applications software on the open-source operating system, and that it has
emerged as the second most popular operating system among the Oracle
developers in the country.   

IBM to launch MS Office for Linux
Posted February 13, 9:27 a.m. Pacific Time

As part of its initiative to put Linux on the desktop, IBM Corp. wants to
migrate Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite to Linux. Microsoft said it's not
involved and suggests that IBM might do it by emulation.  
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/ms-tnef
Size: 2659 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/pipermail/wellylug/attachments/20040219/ae852833/attachment.bin