Hewlett Packard is reportedly considering building an alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows, based on Linux.
Microsoft claims Windows Vista is off to a fast start, having sold more than 20 million copies since its January 30 consumer release.
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.
UPDATE: With IBM leading the charge, the corporate world is finding a space for the alternative OS. While enthusiasts look forward to mainstreaming it on the desktop, Linux is gaining in the bigger picture. ZDNet Australia brings you the latest news from LinuxWorld 2002.
Monday was the last day on which Windows XP will be sold as a boxed product or licensed to PC manufacturers.
It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP arguably its best operating system to date.
Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
According to Eric Raymond, every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. But is it also the developers' interests that get served?
Can one operating system fit all your needs? Or is it a matter of mixing and matching to the tasks at hand? ZDNet Australia assembled a panel of IT experts to find out which OS fits best.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.
Though it doesn't offer earth-shattering new features and interface issues remain, Windows Mobile 6 brings a collection of noteworthy improvements that makes its mobile devices easier to use and equips mobile professionals with more robust productivity tools.
Despite combining the heritage of Mandrakesoft and Connectiva, Mandriva is usually considered a second-tier Linux distribution. Nevertheless, the latest version, Mandriva Linux 2006, is well packaged and includes support for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
Two of the year's most user-friendly Linux distributions--SuSE Linux 8.1 and Red Hat Linux 8.0--have closed the gap between Windows and Linux. But which one should you choose?
IBM's work on the AIX 5L Unix operating system will bear fruit this year, with version 5.1 enabling systems to incorporate Power 4 chips or Intel's Itanium for the first time.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
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