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  • Take your hat off to Red Hat consulting

    Open source solutions provider Red Hat has announced a new consulting service for business’ wanting to migrate its IT infrastructure to open source technologies.

  • Linux lab hires second guru

    A day after Linus Torvalds joined the Open-Source Development Lab, the group hires the developer who will assume responsibility for the upcoming 2.6 version of Linux.

  • Open source moved to phones

    Linux backers are hoping their open-source operating system will end up being the dark horse in the smart-phone operating system race—especially if the other contenders continue to struggle.

  • The commoditisation of software

    Software is commoditised by the appearance of open-source software--its low cost serves as a strong challenge to proprietary software companies' business models.

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    A small Australian company has released an innovative Linux-based security tool, in an attempt to set the open-source darling on the path towards acceptance within organisations.

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    The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.

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    Tips on how to select the right application.

  • The open source patent conundrum

    Although Sun Microsystems recently made software patents available for use by open-source developers, OSI founder Bruce Perens cautions that the patent picture is turning increasingly murky.

  • Migration news: Windows to Linux, and vice versa

    Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?

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    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

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  • A lesson in logic

    Fundamentalists are people who can't tolerate the idea that there are legitimate points of view other than their own. Publish something negative about Linux, and you'll soon find out what I mean.

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 2

    Thunderbird 2 provides a compelling option for users looking for an open source e-mail client.

  • Windows Server 2008

    Windows Server 2008 is easier to install and manage than previous versions, and has many new and improved features that should encourage organisations to upgrade.

  • Desktop Linux for small businesses

    Is your business ready to take the open-source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner.

  • Microsoft tracks possible Windows code leak

    Microsoft is investigating the possibility that a file posted to several underground sites and chat rooms contains some protected source code to Windows 2000.

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