SCO Group told to pay Novell royalties for Unix
U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball has now ordered SCO Group to pay Novell more than $2.5 million in royalties.
These royalties are to be paid for disputes related to the UNIX OS.
This is however much lower than the figure of around $20 million which Novell had initially demanded.
SCO [...]

Apple Computer updates X11 to fix issues with OpenOffice
Apple Computer has just posted an update to their X11 application. This latest release is version X11 2006 1.1.3 and it follows the X11 2006 1.1.2 release which was made available about two weeks ago.
This software product is a graphical user interface employed by some UNIX applications [...]

Opera 9 Beta is out
Opera Software ASA has finally released the first beta of their upcoming major update to their web browser application Opera.
The company had been testing out several test builds with the interested beta testers all these days through the weekly editions.
Opera has already made available two preview releases of Opera 9 [...]

Microsoft launches a site related to Linux OS
Software giants Microsoft have launched a website dedicated to open source operating system Linux and how their products can interact with them. This website is sponsored by the Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab and would offer blogs and other content on the company’s efforts to support Linux and [...]

Windows OS overtakes Unix in Server market
As per incoming reports Microsoft Windows operating system has just managed to bump Unix based operating systems in 2005 to claim the top spot in server sales for the first time. The statistics were revealed by market research company IDC.
The report released by IDC claims that PC manufacturers sold [...]