IBM is putting software tools worth US$40 million into the public domain to boost a new open-source effort for e-biz and Web services tools. Why is Big Blue being so generous?
With some of the glamour gone from open-source software, companies backing the cooperative-programming approach are resorting to more traditional means to boost their prospects.
After promising to invest more than US$1 billion in Linux, Big Blue says software and system sales have proved more than lucrative.
A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and Unix systems for compression may affect some Microsoft products that also use the code.
More and more governments around the world are requiring their agencies to use free or open source software and use proprietary software only as a last resort. Microsoft is working overtime to quell the revolution.
Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories bandied about by critics of open source.
The good news for Linux as an operating system for the desktop--as opposed to the server--is that it is set to become number two after Windows in the next year or so.
A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and Unix systems for compression may affect some Microsoft products that also use the code.
Low cost is always cited as the top reason that enterprises choose Linux clusters. But the promise of new, advanced management tools and scalability capabilities is also spurring increased interest and attention
The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm has predicted in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.
The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm has predicted in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.
Another year has gone by--an eternity in software-development terms--and it's time once again for PC users to ask themselves: Is Linux ready for the desktop?
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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