Big Blue is on a mission to convince others that the operating system is worthy of real-world use, though it acknowledges that its own interests are a motivation.
Despite the recent buzz around Napster and the potential of peer-to-peer networking, most IT managers are taking a cautious approach to the new technology.
Linux User Expo: Britain is lagging behind the rest of Europe where it comes to adopting open-source software, says a lobbyist. But the open-source community cannot expect businesses to adopt Linux without better technical support.
Alcatel-Lucent is teaming up with Red Hat on its products for smaller businesses, the companies have revealed.
Red Hat has plans for a new private beta test of open source messaging software to begin next month, with hopes to reinvent a section of the server market currently ruled by proprietary vendors.
Security start-up Veracode updated its SecurityReview tool this week to allow companies to scan for backdoors and malicious code introduced during the development process, a class of security holes often missed by existing scanners.
On Thursday, Canonical plans to release "Gutsy Gibbon," the Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 that the company hopes will lay the foundation for a serious push into the server and other markets in six months.
When Apple released Parallels Desktop in June 2006, it showed most users for the first time what they could achieve with desktop virtualisation.
Red Hat announced a new version of its Linux software on Wednesday geared for desktop and laptop computer customers in developing nations.
Former Telstra CIO Jeff Smith has been appointed group executive, Information Technology, of the new financial giant created by the multi-billion dollar merger of insurers Suncorp and Promina.
Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense.
Support for Linux in the traditionally conservative world of financial services has more than doubled in the last year according to the latest market intelligence.
Adobe Systems will restore Linux support for its PDF-viewing software with a version 7 release this week.
Three companies selling software to let servers run software more efficiently will try to advance their respective fortunes in the US on Monday with new software, a new partnership and a new promotion.
Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming version of the operating system in June, the Linux leader says a test version could come as soon as next week.
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