Rebecca Reid

Even as Linux has continued its slow, steady, well-publicized trek to enterprise acceptance, it has quietly started catching on in another market

The SCO Group Inc. (SCO) and IBM Corp. are bracing for what is likely to be a long, drawn-out, intellectual property (IP) dispute involving Unix, according to legal experts.

Academics and researchers in New Brunswick now have access to more bandwidth thanks to a new fibre-optic network built by Group Telecom Services Corp.

Another company is raising doubts about the SCO Group Inc.'s (SCO) exclusive copyright ownership of Unix.

The Mozilla Foundation this week released previews of its new Web browser, Mozilla Firefox 0.8, and a new e-mail application targeted at the enterpise, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5.

Blast Radius Inc., an IT services company focusing mainly on large-scale Web applications, on Monday announced its purchase of the XMetal division of Ottawa-based Corel Corp.

To speed the adoption of Linux in the data centre, the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) on Thursday released a paper that defines and prioritizes the Linux capabilities needed to run enterprise-class data centres applications.

Last year was an eventful one for Linux -- the 2.6 kernel was released, Novell Inc. announced acquisition of SuSE AG, Red Hat stopped supporting its free distribution in favour of its Enterprise distribution, and instead kickstarted the Fedora Project, and the SCO Group Inc. claimed intellectual property rights over Linux.