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In January, James Whitehurst became president and CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat. The 41-year-old came to the software company, which sells and services the Linux open source computer operating system, from Delta Air Lines, where he was chief operating officer and had worked on, among other projects, development of the discount travel Web site Orbitz. At Red Hat, Whitehurst, a native of Atlanta and 1989 graduate of Rice University, will be part of a collaboration between the company and IBM to develop a personal computer that doesn’t rely on Microsoft software.

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Open Source ‘Fundamentally Superior’: Red Hat CEO James Whitehurst

The Utah-based SCO Group has been cleared to appeal a court ruling that might lead to a revival of its dispute with IBM over copyright claims to the freely distributed Linux operating system. Utah Federal Judge Dale A. Kimball has signed a final judgment in a case involving Novell, in which he had awarded Novell $2.5 million for some of the revenues SCO obtained in licensing the Unix computer operating system. The judgment is the latest development in the case that began in 2003 when SCO sued IBM saying the Unix code that SCO claimed to own had been the basis for code placed in Linux.

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SCO Vows to Appeal Judge’s Patent Ruling

When Mark Lapidos, president and originator of The Fest, decided 34 years ago to feed his passion for The Beatles with an annual Beatles Fans Celebration, the furthest things from his mind were computers and databases. Any thoughts about managing a repeat event and bringing The Fest to numerous cities around the country just did not hang around. However, The Fest grew into an annual event held in multiple U.S. cities to bring Beatles fans together. His Beatles passion turned into a full-time business for him.

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Fans, Festivals, FileMaker: E-Commerce Gets a Little Help From Its Friends

Oscommerce has given new definitions to the ecommerce solutions. People from all over the world are using this software due to its extended profits.

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Oscommerce Software For Spectacular Online Shopping Experience

Looking for a big boost out of its current financial doldrums, Sun Microsystems unveiled a line of data storage systems this week that it hopes will establish the Santa Clara, Calif., company as a new force in a growing market. Sun is unveiling three new “storage appliances” — industrial-strength computers designed for corporations and other organizations that need to store and retrieve large amounts of data — that represent the first extensive use of its open source software with solid-state memory drives, in combination with more commonly used rotating disk drives.

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Sun Launches High-Performance Storage Appliances