On June 23, 2004, Sun published a whitepaper showcasing superior JavaTM 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) web services performance when compared to Microsoft's .NET. Microsoft published a response on July 14th refuting claims and stating that in their tests .NET performance was higher than Java Web Services. More here and a reply from Microsoft here.

OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt recently announced that support for the SGI O2 architecture was soon going to be imported, primarily in an effort to hunt down and fix bugs in the OpenBSD codebase.

Apple filed its quarterly report (SEC form 10-Q) with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday. In the filing, which is available as a 86-page PDF document, Apple discloses several details on net and unit sales, its retail stores, education sales, lawsuits and more.

Steve Langasek of Debian is introducing the release schedule for a new Debian release.

Waking up rich and confused. That's how one analyst explained the recurring product delays at Microsoft, and the principle can describe similar problems at chip giant Intel. Instead of waking up sick and washed out, employees at these companies are seemingly dawdling a bit because of past successes and a hazy outlook, says C|NET News.

This paper discusses the collaboration between security and development in the enterprise software development lifecycle.

Mandrakelinux 10.1 beta 1 has been synchronizing to mirrors and includes many new packages. There is also a Mandrakelinux 10.1 beta 1 screenshot slideshow.

"Linux captured the No. 2 spot as desktop operating system in 2003," said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky. By 2007, IDC estimates that Linux will have 6 percent of the desktop market in terms of units.

WindowSizer, the tiling window manager for Microsoft Windows, was released this summer and continues to mature.

IBM Cloudscape is an open standards small footprint database that tightly embeds into Java apps.

What follows in the article is an analysis of the "dependency hell" problem in Linux and the issues surrounding software installation. I make a proposal of my own and critique the suggested "solutions" to these problems and point my finger at "the" (my perception) source of these problems.

Szulik, who delivered the opening keynote Tuesday for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, sat down with reporters and editors from CNET News.com for a broad-ranging conversation about the company and the open-source business.

Microsoft has issued a warning that the newest version of its software for managing customer relations will not work with the company's next Windows update. Also, Microsoft will finalize the code for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) sometime today, release it via Microsoft Download Center and MSDN on the Web tomorrow, and then ship it to customers via Windows Update beginning August 25, though Automatic Update users will get it immediately on a staggered basis.

A new feature of the Solaris 10 Operating System lets you run Linux applications, unchanged, on their own or side by side with Solaris applications.