ZDNet Sm@rt Partner columnist Marty Larsen says that “Open source should be part of any long-term strategic plan. If you have not incorporated it into your IT strategy, you risk missing very significant benefits. Open source has matured and now as a quantifiable benefit in every IT operation.”

A Suncoast Linux Users Group press release at LinuxPR notes that Jon ‘maddog’ Hall and NewsForge’s very own Robin ‘roblimo’ Miller will speak at this year’s Computer & Technologies Show. The show will take place on May 30 and 31, in Clearwater, Florida. Other speakers include Ralph Cooley (IBM), Buck Carhart (Caldera), and Dexter Morgan (Win4Lin).

The University of North Carolina is none too happy about the existence of uncgirls.com, and has filed a lawsuit against the site’s operators. UNC claims the adult-oriented site violates federal trademark laws, and is seeking $100,000 in damages, and ownership of the domain name. Full AP story at Salon.

An InfoWorld article on CNN reports on the results of an Internet and computer security study conducted at the University of California, San Diego. According the UCSD study, nearly 4,000 Denial of Service (DoS) attacks happen every week. The vast majority of victims were attacked fewer than five times, and from that group, 65 percent experienced only one attack.

Binary Freedom: “We all know that Microsoft employs tactics that are anti-competitive in nature, but could their gradual chipping away of standards that the Internet is built upon eventually rock the foundation of its existence?”

MSNBC carries news of updated packages for Red Hat Linux 6 through 7, fixing security holes found in the Linux kernel. Editor’s note: The headline for this article was taken directly from MSNBC.

From Slashdot: “Apple has opened their Common Data Security Architecture framework,
which “contains an expandable set of cryptographic algorithms to perform code signing and
encryption operations while maintaining the security of the cryptographic keys.” Lots of good
info in addition to the code.”

Borland is back on the Mac. After a rather long hiatus from offering development tools for Apple’s Macintosh operating system, the company this week raised the curtain on a beta version of JBuilder 5 for Mac OS X. Borland says its decision was based on Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ endorsement of Java during an appearance at the JavaOne conference last summer. Full story at ZDNet eWEEK.

Here’s another item from osOpinion, regarding Linux on the desktop: “Linux is still young and growing. It started as a server OS, and given time, it will
also become the desktop OS many anticipate it to be. Rome was not built in a
day, nor was Microsoft. While Linux development is certainly fast, overnight
results can’t be expected.”

“For those who haven’t heard, Eazel, a company noted for its development of a
newly refined Linux User Interface, recently went under. The company is gone for
good. Sad as that is, we must move on.

Some are touting this event as the beginning of the end for Linux’s chances as a
desktop OS. Unfortunately, the pundits making these claims are assuming that
Linux’s way into the desktop could only have been achieved by cloning
Microsoft’s software and application-development philosophies.

Most of us within the Linux trenches see things much differently.” Read more at osOpinion.