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.
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 company says it is not getting back into the PC market, despite selling 'Microsoft-free' PCs, running Linux and OpenOffice, in eastern Europe
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.
Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors the incumbent proprietary software powers.
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.
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To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.
The South Australian government is looking at a software overhaul that could see Apple or Red Hat taking over from Microsoft on the state's PCs. Analysts warn, however, skills costs could still lead to a software environment dominated by a single platform.
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.
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.
The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?
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.
A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers working on competing software.
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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.
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