Red Hat announced a new version of its Linux software on Wednesday geared for desktop and laptop computer customers in developing nations.
Reuters is soon to announce plans to bring its financial information software to Linux in conjunction with Red Hat, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, sources said, a major achievement for the comparatively young open-source operating system.
Linux, having just won the fight for mainstream respectability, has moved to a challenge that's less glamorous but just as important: making itself attractive to the information technology industry.
On Thursday, Canonical plans to release "Gutsy Gibbon," the Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 that the company hopes will lay the foundation for a serious push into the server and other markets in six months.
Three companies selling software to let servers run software more efficiently will try to advance their respective fortunes in the US on Monday with new software, a new partnership and a new promotion.
PeopleSoft's chief technology officer, Rick Bergquist, tells Simon Sharwood why the company has taken the Linux plunge, where the future lies for enterprise software and why some installations are failing.
In the flat enterprise software market, the message is clear: It's time to hunt or be hunted.
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