So said Sun Microsystems' COO Jonathan Schwartz at an Asia Pacific press conference in Shanghai today. "I don't want to say when that will happen. But make no mistake, we will open source Solaris," he declared. The move is a widely anticipated one. Still, what will keep users and the press guessing for now is what form the licensing model of its longstanding server operating system will take as Schwartz refused to elaborate.

In November 2003, Red Hat announced that "Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003." In other words, "No more free Red Hat software." Red Hat's missive confirmed that it was going to focus its efforts on large, enterprise-wide Linux installations and suggested that Red Hat Linux users migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, albeit at a significantly increased annual cost. But then again, Fedora was unveiled.

The Syllable team has a few interesting news to announce, new dev tools, a new dock and a registrar, printed magazing exposure and more.

A day after its No. 2 client, Sony, delivered bad news, PalmSource says two Chinese companies may license the Palm OS. PalmSource said on Wednesday it is talking with mobile phone maker Ningbo Bird and an arm of TCL about licensing its Palm operating system for handheld devices.

Does a solution written for Microsoft .NET have to be 100% .NET? Scott Hanselman looks at how hybrid managed-unmanaged solutions are really the norm.

With the publication of 'Advanced UNIX Programming', Second Edition, Marc Rochkind takes a look at what has changed in the 20 years since he wrote the first edition.