Sun Microsystems on Monday said it has released OpenSolaris, an open source version of its Solaris operating system, and announced a deal with Amazon.com.
Open-source software is about more than free code and occasionally troublesome licensing models.
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos reiterated his pledge to reach profitability on a pro forma basis by year's end, while executives outlined both cost-cutting measures and expansion plans to reach that goal.
The e-tailer goes with the lower-cost operating system and cuts US$17 million in tech expenses. This could be bad news for Microsoft's Windows if companies take this tack to cut costs.
The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Linux vendor Canonical.
Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News.
Merrill Lynch research shows that deploying Linux internally that could save the company millions of dollars, an executive at the investment banker said.
Microsoft is now cosying up to the open source movement, and there are sound business reasons behind the about-face.
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Google has rethought the Internet browser some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.
A few months later than originally planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, the widely used open-source Web browser. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of features that Mozilla says should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages and location of previously visited Web pages.
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