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Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Wal-Mart Selling PCs With Sun's Java Desktop System, Linux. Complete computers available for less than $300, but will consumers go for them? [InternetWeek]
5:49:31 PM

Microsoft, Others Publish Metadata-Exchange Standard. Microsoft and IBM introduced a new Web services standard and also updated an existing spec. [eWEEK Technology News]
5:45:46 PM

MySQL-PHP Restriction Fears Unwarranted. MySQL eases restrictions on bundling of their libraries with the PHP scripting language. [InternetWeek]
2:30:26 PM

Zend releases PHP5, gets influx of new funding. In a sign that the marketplace sees lots of promise in PHP's growth prospects, Zend Technologies has completed a new venture capital infusion of $6 million. The latest investment, from venture capital fund Index Ventures, together with previous investors Walden Israel and SFK Technologies, brings to $12 million the total of VC investments in Zend in less than six months, since November 2003. Israeli-based news service Globes [online] reports that Zend may actually get $2 to $3 million more in funding before the round closes. And as if to justify investors' faith, the long-anticipated PHP5 First Release Candidate is finally for download from Zend. [NewsForge]
11:51:54 AM

IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case

IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 31, @08:28AM
from the raising-the-hammer dept.
Some Bitch writes "IBM has filed for declaratory judgement in the SCO case. They want the court to declare that "IBM does not infringe, induce the infringement of or contribute to the infringement of any SCO copyright through its Linux activities, including its use, reproduction and improvement of Linux, and that some or all of SCO's purported copyrights in Unix are invalid and unenforceable.". If the judge grants the motion then SCO effectively has no case and the whole thing is over." spafbnerf notes that "SCO has filed a motion for the patent infringement claim to be split into a separate case." fr0z adds a link to Groklaw's always-excellent coverage.

[Slashdot]

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