RSS FeedsThe Linux Year [part 1] - a look back at 2005
Posted on 22 Dec 2005 at 11:30
May saw one of the key figures in SUSE walk out from Novell - one of a number to do so - for personal reasons. Richard Seibt was the one-time president of SUSE, but his role within Novell was never well defined.
Mobile phone giant Nokia chose May to make another patent pledge, saying it would not press certain of its patents against open source projects involved in the Linux kernel.
June, and Red Hat announced it was moving into , following a trend for platform builders to move 'up the stack', with databases, application servers and the like adding to their Linux appeal.
IBM also announced that it would be taking the open source idea to quite another level, providing key hardware and software specifications of its new Cell chip to the open source community to drive rapid development of platforms and applications.
June saw Sun officially releasing an open source of its Solaris 10 platform, called OpenSolaris.
[Part 2 follows on Thursday]
Author: Matt Whipp
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