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Claim: Slander of title
Filed: January 20, 2004
Details: When SCO went public with its claims, Novell responded by claiming ownership of some Unix copyrights, which Novell said could make SCO's claims invalid. SCO in turn claimed that it took ownership of those copyrights when it bought the Unix System V source code in 1995. (See "How SCO Came to Own Unix Source Code", below.)
SCO's suit here is akin to a charge of trespassing. Novell, SCO says, is trying to claim ownership of something SCO already owns. SCO is also accusing Novell of trying to stall the case and confuse the marketplace.
Status: Novell filed a motion to dismiss, which has been denied. SCO filed a motion to move from federal to state court, which was also denied. The court has asked SCO to specify the damages that have resulted from Novell's actions. SCO Was Suing . . .DaimlerChrysler
Claim: Breach of contract
Filed: March 3, 2004
Details: In this case SCO claimed contractual violations, not copyright violations, because DaimlerChrysler is a Unix licensee and AutoZone isn't. SCO claimed it gave DaimlerChrysler 30 days to certify that it was in compliance with SCO's licensing terms. SCO said the automaker hadn't certified compliance, thus breaching the contract.
Status: In late July, Judge Rae Lee Chabot of the Circuit Court for the County of Oakland, Michigan granted DaimlerChrysler's motion for a summary judgment dismissing the suit, except for the charge that the automaker didn't respond quickly enough to a request from SCO for certification that it was complying with a Unix licence agreement. A SCO spokesman said the Lindon, Utah-based vendor is reviewing its legal options based on the judge's decision.
SCO Might Sue . . .SGI
Details: SCO accused Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) of contributing Unix System V source code to Linux. In an open letter to the Linux community, SGI acknowledged some "trivial" duplications of source code and then offered patches to replace those duplications with fresh code.
SCO had also charged SGI with violating its Unix license with another piece of software, XFS. SGI denies this.
Status: SCO officials publicly state that suing SGI remains an option and the two companies have been "in discussions".
SCO Is Being Sued by . . .Red Hat
Claims: False advertising, deceptive trade practices, unfair competition, tortious interference, trade libel and disparagement, among others
Filed: August 4, 2003
Details: Red Hat, an IBM partner on Linux, hit SCO with seven claims. Red Hat says that SCO's public legal campaign is based on false and misleading claims, the only purpose of which is to make customers wary of investing in Linux and thus Red Hat.
Status: SCO filed for dismissal. Judge stayed the case until the IBM case is resolved. Red Hat filed a motion to reconsider. No ruling yet.
IBM
Counter claims: Breach of contract, unfair competition, unfair and deceptive trade practices, breach of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and patent infringement, among others
Filed: August 6, 2003
Details: Big Blue answered SCO's lawsuit with 10 counterclaims. IBM is charging that SCO is maliciously attacking major IBM products, Linux and Unix, which is having a damaging effect on IBM's business. IBM also says that SCO didn't provide sufficient warning before revoking IBM's "perpetual and irrevocable" license to the Unix System V code.
In addition, IBM claims that SCO itself used and sold Linux products under the GPL. In other words, IBM is saying that SCO violated the very agreement it's now accusing others of violating.
IBM also identified four of its own patents that it claims SCO has violated. In effect, IBM is saying: "You want a fight? You got it."
Status: Will be heard with original SCO v. IBM case starting in November 2005.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
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CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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New Ways to Approach Security in a Web 2.0 World 08 September, 2008 09:32:00
Web 2.0 technologies have ushered in a new age of security threats. Brian Foster, vice president of product management with Symantec, shares his insight on what you need to do to safeguard your company in today's business environmentBusiness isn't what it used to be. - +
Skills for leading a converged security operation 08 September, 2008 12:30:00
The cultural challenges are significant, and the CSO has to lead the way in learning and changing. We spoke with several converged CSOs for their take on building the necessary skills to hold the job.John had a massive challenge to tackle. A former IT security officer at a large bank in New York, he and his wife packed up and moved across the country so he could take on the role of chief security officer with a well-known provider of loans, retail financing, and other credit related products. - +
Information security governance: Centralized vs. distributed 05 September, 2008 10:15:00
Should security policies, procedures and processes be managed within a central body, or distributed at an individual level? You need to find the middle ground.The management of information risk has become a significant topic for all organizations, small and large alike. But for the large, multi-divisional organization, it poses the additional challenge of determining how to deploy an information security governance program among what are often disparate business units. Should the policies, procedures, and processes that define the program be developed and managed within a central, corporate body? Or perhaps responsibility would be better placed at the individual unit level? Is there a workable middle-ground? - +
DNS error brings Sophos antivirus updates to a halt 05 September, 2008 13:40:00
Optus, Internode and Equinix affected among others.A sporadic Domain Name Server (DNS) error has blocked Sophos anti-virus updates around the world. - +
Ouch! Security pros' worst mistakes 04 September, 2008 08:05:00
We've all done regrettable things on the job, but does any valuable wisdom come of it? Four security pros candidly explain their biggest blunders and what they learned in the processIt was a mistake so bad the person who made it asked that his name and company not be mentioned here. Let's call him Frank.
From Indian roadside selling candles to three Australian Business Awards: OCA Group divisions triumph 08 September, 2008 16:46:00
NetSuite First with Native Support for Google Chrome 08 September, 2008 11:07:00
Frost & Sullivan: Soaring Demand For Hosted Web Conferencing Services 08 September, 2008 08:44:00
Viva la Verticals! Key to Vendor Growth is Through Vertical Market Opportunities, Says IDC 05 September, 2008 11:05:00
F-Secure delivers fastest protection in the online world 04 September, 2008 16:50:00
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