The unofficial end to the SCO saga. [SCO] today announced it received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market indicating that the Company's securities will be delisted from Nasdaq on September 27, 2007, pending an appeal.

Oh, my. We're back to the good old days of Microsoft mythology. I had actually believed that Microsoft had grown up and wised up.

What I got from Clint Patterson, public relations director for Microsoft's Unified Communications Group, went a couple notches beyond the "competition is healthy" category of platitudes I'd expected. Instead Patterson offered a broad criticism of open-source businesses that hark back to days of yore when top executives called the collaborative programming philosophy "un-American" and a "cancer."

Last week, AMD's recent support for Linux in the video card sector inspired me to give Linux another shot. I decided to give Kubuntu Feisty a try, as I am already somewhat accustomed to KDE. Unfortunately, I ran into all of the same problems that I had run into with previous versions of linux, as well as some new ones.

There have been some questions raised about how we service the Windows Update components and concerns expressed about software installing silently. I want to clarify the issue so that everyone can better understand why the self-updating of Windows Update acts the way it does.

According to an anonymous source working at the Geotechnical & Structures Lab of the US Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, Miss., a committee of government employees and contractors at Vicksburg is considering a new IT policy which will force everyone to move to Windows XP if they are not already running it, and to port all applications save one currently running on Linux to Windows.

Most package managers first download all the binaries/libraries. However, one package manager differs and does the job of downloading and installing at the same time. Check it out.

InfoWorld blogger and MuleSource CEO Dave Rosenberg has some thoughts on Microsoft and SOA in light of, and in advance of, the recent spate of BizTalk announcements and partnerships. Like myself, he takes exception to Microsoft’s claims of SOA support and affinity.