The company running the German railway system has moved half of its servers to Linux, and expects to have more than 300 Linux servers in operation by the end of this year.
Lindows.com on Tuesday released a new version of its operating system meshed with Internet telephony technology created by company chief executive officer Michael Robertson.
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It started as a small rebellion--a warning shot fired at the Windows monopoly by independent-minded programmers. But the open-source movement traditionally associated with the happy penguin and the pierced, tattooed crowd is increasingly moving into the enterprise, mingling peacefully with commercial and proprietary code.
As of last weekend, it has become a crime in Germany to build, sell, obtain or distribute so-called "hacking tools", which experts say will damage overall computer security by severely curtailing legitimate research and analysis, and prevent "good" hackers from discovering and plugging system security holes.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
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Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
Microsoft on Monday released an update to its Tablet PC operating system that lets a device habla espanol and at the same time parle francais.
As pictures of contested Linux code make their way online, open-source enthusiasts are bashing The SCO Group for its claims that the code shows it has legal rights over the OS.
Microsoft on Friday quietly released a new Macintosh version of its Windows Media Player software.
This much-anticipated update to Live Meeting faces stiff competition from WebEx and GoToMeeting.
The company updates the test version of its new Web browser as part of its efforts to distance its software environment from Microsoft's.
Microsoft on Monday released an update to its Tablet PC operating system that lets a device habla espanol and at the same time parle francais.
Developers of alternative office software need to place more emphasis on ease of conversion if they ever wish to de-throne Microsoft.
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