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Red Hat has started a new software maintenance service called Extended Update Support (EUS) that’s supposed to save bigger customers money if they standardize on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment, like, say, RHEL 5.2, for up to 18 months, which, Red Hat says, is three times longer than the industry norm.
EUS is an add-on [...]

Sample headlines from the December 22 edition:
GNU Sues Cisco
Adobe Gives Linux AIR Time
Novell Moves the Furniture Around Again
Microsoft Documents its ODF Support
Novell Cancels BrainShare
Red Hat Devises New Maintenance Service
openSUSE Revved
Red Hat Thumbs its Nose at Novell
Sun Delivers T2 RDK
Linux Foundation Names New CTO
Currency Plays Havoc with Oracle’s Numbers
Gartner’s Crystal Ball Turns Nasty
Lenovo-Positivo Deal Off
Zoho Claims [...]

Adobe’s AIR for Linux, the runtime engine that supports rich Internet apps (RIAs), has caught up with its Windows and Mac siblings.
The company has released AIR 1.5 for Linux, the first time the Linux desktop variant has made it as a production-grade, Adobe-supported release.
And now also for the first [...]

In a fascinating move to co-op the cloud, IBM is proposing to rate other people’s clouds, people like Amazon, GoGrid, Mosso and FlexiScale.
Hopefully it will do better than Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s did with the bonds created out of sub-prime loans.
It’s unclear why anyone would submit to such [...]

SCO filed a notice of appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver Tuesday.
Yes, miracle of miracles it finally got a final judgment out of Utah District Court Judge Dale Kimball.
That’s the hall pass it needs to challenge his devastating summary judgment of August [...]