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Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to get an app running. What you're going to see here that you've never seen before is shrinkwrap net apps that scale that can be deployed by civillians. That's a mouthful, but that's what's coming. Why? Because here is a standardized platform that can be stamped out in the billions of units. Maybe Google can't do it, but the perception is that they can. Who is willing to stand up and say Google hasn't nailed scaling? What PCs did in the 80s, Google is doing now. PCs took the black magic out of owning a computer.

'Compliance and security are the new Software Quality drivers,' said Dr Adam Kolawa, cofounder and CEO of Parasoft Corporation, talking live on SYS-CON.TV to Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of JDJ.

Current storage solution paradigms are facing a bumpy road ahead with the rapid emergence of the Linux-based cluster as a vehicle of choice in the enterprise storage market. Most readers will be familiar with the problems associated with the use of the Direct Attached Storage (DAS) paradigm in cluster applications, and many will have experienced the limitations of the Storage Area Network (SAN) paradigm.

Client Server News and LinuxGram, its sister publication, have asked the Utah district court hearing the SCO Group's $5 billion suit against IBM and IBM's subsequent counterclaims to open all the filings that have been sealed. SCO's suit claims IBM improperly incorporated aspects of SCO's Unix operating system in Linux. If proved, it could derail the Linux market and take the open source movement down with it. Our motion to intervene cites the fact that Linux is an inflection point for the industry and that any question of its future is a matter of intense public interest.

First chipmakers like Transmeta and AMD say they are working to make their microprocessors capable of protecting computers from virus and worm attacks, now Red Hat joins in - based on a prototype from Intel - and will start incorporating 'No eXecute' (NX) to help prevent buffer overflows.

No one else says it quite like Michael Robertson. 'The world doesn't have to suffer through poor software which invites hackers, like Microsoft Outlook,' the Lindows Inc. chief executive writes, in his latest epistle to Lindows/Linspire fans. 'Desktop Linux is a viable alternative,' he proclaims.

'Security certifications and compliance with standards are top priorities for Red Hat and are key drivers of innovation,' noted Paul Cormier, executive vice president of Engineering at Red Hat. 'We are committed to industry standards and will continue to drive acceptance and adherence of standards, leading by example.'

Linux folks tend to have a better eye on security. I realize that's an overwhelmingly general and wide-sweeping statement, but that's my opinion. I've been working with Linux for a very long time, and most of the other users in the community tend to be highly technical and thus aware of many of the security concerns facing the networked world today.

'The conclusions drawn by Forrester have extremely limited real-world value for customers assessing the practical issue of how quickly serious vulnerabilities get fixed,' say GNU/Linux vendors Debian, Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, and SUSE. The four have joined together to give a common statement about the Forrester recent report 'Is Linux more Secure than Windows?' - which was unfair to Linux, they say, because despite the report's claim to incorporate a qualitative assessment of vendor reactions to serious vulnerabilities, it treats all vulnerabilities are equal, regardless of their risk to users.

In case that sounds like a secret code, it's supposed to be a beta of the 2.6-based Fedora Core that supports SELinux or Security Enhanced Linux, which means the security modules endorsed by the National Security Agency (NSA). And that in turn means granular permissions for all users, programs, processes, files and devices.