Stories by: LinuxWorld staff

In an intriguing display of attempting both to have its cake and eat it, a new report from The Yankee Group is headlined, in upbeat fashion, Linux Will Enjoy Double-Digit Growth, but comes with a careful qualifying sub-title, But Don't Expect Windows or UNIX to Fade Away.

Linuxworld’s mailbag was stretched this week following an article we posted on SCO’s claims to owning the Unix source code.

An ad running in the UK that implied running a Linux operating system is ten times more expensive than running a Windows operating system has been oficially condemned as misleading by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), after public complaints.

The International Open Source Network (IOSN) has released a manual containing instructions on managing files, surfing the Internet, and creating documents in OpenOffice.

The headline this morning in Finland's Tietoviikko newspaper is not good: "Turku uskoo linuxiin." In other words, Finland second largest city, Turku population around 200,000 - is dropping its Linux plans.

Linux vendor Lycoris has announced the release of PowerPak 1.4 which the copanyclaims will make running Linux applications easier and make migrating from Windows to Linux easier.

If Cobol could be integrated with with Java, XML, and Web services, business agility would be increased and costs would be reduced. That is the contention of Micro Focus - who have launched a development and deployment environment for Unix Cobol and Linux applications called Server Express.

"I don't decide what needs to be done," Linus Torvalds told BusinessWeek this week when asked about the Linux kernel development process. "It's defined by what people need to get done and what they want to do. Getting it working together - that's where I and other organizers come in. If I see something that needs more attention, I sometimes suggest something." Business Week dubs him the "technical shepherd" of Linux.

In an age where Linus Torvalds now regularly makes it into BusinessWeek as Linux's "technical shepherd," can it really be true that Linux still has an image problem? However hard a pill it may be to swallow, that's how it is, according anyway to one recent account of prevailing prejudices at a typical computer science department.

The IBM Linux Speed-start program is providing a free Software Evaluation Kit (SEK) loaded with the latest IBM middleware that has been ported to Linux.

A report carried out by Capgemini SA was the clincher in the decision by the London Borough of Newham to scrap its plans last year to switch to Linux on the desktop.