Rumors Archive

"The struggle between Microsoft and Java advocates for the hearts and minds of application developers is moving to its next battlefield--and this is a phase in which the number of installed licenses could eventually outnumber everything else to date by an order or magnitude. In the rounds fought so far, Microsoft comfortably repulsed Java's aspirations to displace it on the desktop (at least for now). The struggle for the server looks likely to be an uneasy standoff between entrenched .Net and Java 2 Enterprise Edition camps. But on mobile devices, everything is still in play. The battle to be the platform of choice across this wide range of devices has barely begun, but it already looks like the primary candidates to cover a large portion of the space will be Microsoft .Net Compact Framework and Java 2 Micro Edition." Read more at InformationWeek.

LinuxAndMain is hosting a story, describing the begining up to today the growing problems between the KDE Project and Red Hat. Apparently, the latest news is that Red Hat sees KDE as "kde* crapland".

"Apple's quaint choice of a microkernel for Mac OS X means Linux will lead in performance on Mac hardware. BeOS implements its TCP stack in a user process, microkernel-style, and so does QNX. Both have notoriously slow TCP stacks." Read the article at LinuxJournal. Our Take: Oh, yeah, this is why Be rewrote the whole networking stack with many of its parts living in the kernel space and named the project "BONE". As for MacOSX lagging behind Linux, we should not be forgetting that Apple announced that MacOSX will sync with FreeBSD 4.x for MacOSX 10.2 while it will also sync with the next generation FreeBSD, 5.x, next year. Technically-speaking, FreeBSD 5.x is one of the most advanced operating systems one can find today (or tomorrow :).

DigitalVideoEditing.com features an article listing the 10 top reasons why someone would or should use Mac over the PC, or a PC instead of a Mac for Video Editing. Update: Another one here, submitted by CattBeMac.

"Who will rule the multimedia universe? Will it be Microsoft's Bill Gates, with his .NET strategy to turn the PC into the nerve center of every home, with tendrils reaching out to encompass everything from music to Web connections to digital video? Or will it be Apple's Steve Jobs, who intends for the Mac to serve as the digital hub for a variety of new and complicated consumer digital devices like cameras, scanners and MP3 players, to name but a few." Read the rest of the intersting analysis at Yahoo!

At the end of November Microsoft posted a document on its Web site comparing the Windows XP Embedded and embedded Linux operating systems, with the emphasis on the technical and business inferiority of Linux. Embedded Linux distributors argue that the document not only distorts the value of Linux, but contains inaccuracies. Lineo, the embedded Linux company and one of the companies of which Microsoft is most critical, wrote a reply which is a point-by-point response to Microsoft's attack. Embedded Linux vendor LynuxWorks joined the growing chorus of responses to Microsoft's recent efforts to portray Embedded Linux as inferior to Windows XP Embedded from both technical and business perspectives. Read their reply at LinuxDevices.com.