The president of SuSE Linux AG's US division denied interpreations of statements that were attributed to him in stories published late yesterday, saying that they were taken "out-of-context." Volker Wiegand, President of SuSE, Inc., emphasized that while some jobs were being eliminated in the U.S. offices of SuSE, this would in no way affect the level of services being offered to SuSE's customers.

UnixWare stumbled under three previous owners. But its latest caretaker, Caldera International CEO Ransom Love, plans to show the operating system plenty of affection. Love is working to clearly articulate how partners will benefit, as Caldera builds more bridges between its flagship Linux products and UnixWare.

Thirty US staff in marketing and product support were made redundant this week, although 14 members of staff remain. The commercial director for SuSE in the UK, says that marketing and support for the US will now be operated from the company's German head office.

SuSE's US operation today laid off roughly three-fourths of its staff, paring the unit down to a skeleton crew of 12. SuSE President Volker Wiegand confirmed the report, although the company's public relations people previously denied it, an exercise in untruth and "bad communications" that Wiegand feared "will have consequences."

Software that is placed under "copyleft" -- as opposed to copyright -- may be in a legal limbo and is still reliant on the concept of copyright, an Irish legal expert says.

Software that is placed under "copyleft" -- as opposed to copyright -- may be in a legal limbo and is still reliant on the concept of copyright, an Irish legal expert says.

Mr. Cowpland said that his faith in the Linux programming language still has not died and that ZIM would be using different programming languages and operating systems, including JAVA and Linux, to make sure that ZIM's products work on numerous different computer networks and technologies.

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the German investment bank, was planning to release its Openadaptor software to the open source community. But, the software is not based on Linux and Apache as claimed by news reports.

Ximian, a commercial Gnome services company, will customize the Gnome desktop for HP-UX, and give the hardware company an "enhanced, tested" version of Gnome. Ximian put together the demo for its monkey-themed booth at LinuxWorld in nine hours, but the full-functioning version of Gnome for HP-UX will take a couple of months.

Linux experts look at the Linux database market and conclude that open source databases will be ready for prime time soon but it may be a while before corporate America accepts the technology.