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Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice president of software, took time after his quarterly Town Hall in San Francisco to sit down with eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor in a conversation about Microsoft Corp.'s Longhorn Wave and the market challenges and opportunities it may present for Sun.

Open-source database software maker MySQL AB has released a new, more powerful complement to its MySQL flagship database. Called MaxDB version 7.5.00.06, the latest release, which was built on database assets it acquired from SAP in May, is more robust than MySQL's main product and also boasts such features as stored procedures, triggers and views, which MySQL lacks.

"Since they cannot show infringement of SCO Unix code, SCO now plans to challenge the 9-year-old settlement between AT&T and BSD. If it can successfully do that, then its claims that Linux contains tainted code can be substantiated. If it can't, SCO is dead meat." Says NewsForge. *Updated*

Froglogic announced the availability of Squish 1.0. froglogic Squish is a professional cross platform automated GUI testing framework for applications written using Trolltech's Qt GUI toolkit.

Sun Microsystems and open-source software maker JBoss Group have resolved a long-standing dispute over a key Java standard.

LinuxElectrons features a mini-review of Gentoo Linux 1.4 along with many screenshots.

IRIX 6.5.22 is releasing with all new systems shipping from SGI worldwide manufacturing centers. The IRIX 6.5.22 release contains both maintenance and feature updates. This release continues the focus on stability, reliability, security and compatibility required in the IRIX 6.5.XX quarterly release process. Approximately 121 customer-reported incidents are fixed in this release.

Adobe has disowned the anti-Mac comments made by one one of its employees in a recent book. Adobe's PR director, Russell Brady, who joined the company afer working at Apple, strongly denied any deliberate snub to Apple or any lessening of commitment to the Mac.

With today's announcement that Sun Microsystems, Inc. and AMD have formed an alliance to deliver a broad range of AMD Opteron processor-based systems, Sun also announced it plans to offer its Java Enterprise System on the AMD Opteron processor and is significantly extending the reach of its Solaris Operating System and leadership in the 64-bit space. The alliance intends to provide increased market opportunities for ISVs, OEMs, and channel partners by offering an industrial strength, affordable platform that has been fully optimized and tuned for the 64-bit AMD Opteron processor.

Apple has forced one of its employees to halt development of a popular shareware application, sources confirmed to Think Secret. Last month, the developer stopped sales and downloads of Netflix Fanatic after Apple claimed ownership over the source code. On other Apple-related news, Fink 0.6.2 released.

CoyoteGulch just posted an analysis of GNU C and C++ optimizations, using a genetic algorithm to discover the most effective optimization flags for different algorithms.

IBM writes: "So, your boss says you're moving from Windows to Linux. He's decided he wants the stability, flexibility, and cost savings of Linux, but you have many questions in your head. Isn't Linux like Unix? Isn't Unix hard? Will you be able to do it? Where do you begin to make sense of all of this? Is there a map you can follow?"

Preaching virtues of the open-source software, CEO leads firm to profitability while challenging Microsoft.

The new PostgreSQL version, 7.4, includes a host of new features which make PostgreSQL a more powerful and scalable database for large enterprises. These include AMD Opteron optimization, improved index maintenance tools, and enhanced support of full text indexing which adds ranked result sets. Combined with the recent contribution of the eRServer replication solution, these advances fulfill PostgreSQL's potential to run high-availability, large-scale data centers. Press release here.