The company says it is not getting back into the PC market, despite selling 'Microsoft-free' PCs, running Linux and OpenOffice, in eastern Europe
After announcing its move into the Eastern European enterprise market with a new Linux and Lotus based PC, an analyst has said it is unlikely IBM and its partners will offer anything similar to Australian businesses.
The Linux kernel has been updated with several serviceability improvements, chiefly around the kdump and SystemTap features.
Red Hat has launched its Red Hat Exchange, a site where customers can buy a range of open-source applications from the company's business partners.
IBM has developed an open desktop product that supports a range of applications, such as e-mail and instant messaging, without the need to run Microsoft Windows.
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.
As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?
Four Linux companies have joined forces to develop a common core version of the OS for businesses, but a local analyst doubts a unified approach is enough to encourage take-up by Australian businesses.
The growing influence of the Linux operating system and the open-source software movement will be on display as several large companies announce products and plans at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.
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.
To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.
Four Linux companies have joined forces to develop a common core version of the OS for businesses, but a local analyst doubts a unified approach is enough to encourage take-up by Australian businesses.
German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.
Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes.
A move by four sellers of Linux to unite behind a single version of the operating system might help those allies--and boost Linux's popularity--but it isn't likely to dent the dominance of the top dog, Red Hat.
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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