Linux, having just won the fight for mainstream respectability, has moved to a challenge that's less glamorous but just as important: making itself attractive to the information technology industry.
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.
Novell hopes companies that deserted it for Microsoft in the nineties may come back to the fold following its acquisition of SuSE.
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.
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.
Adobe Systems will restore Linux support for its PDF-viewing software with a version 7 release this week.
Struggling Sun Microsystems will try to show next month that it still has a lot of friends in the financial community.
PeopleSoft's chief technology officer, Rick Bergquist, tells Simon Sharwood why the company has taken the Linux plunge, where the future lies for enterprise software and why some installations are failing.
Still think Linux isn't mission-critical ready? IBM disagrees and claims to have the solution providers, customers, and support structure to prove it.
Mainframes should take up the biggest space at this year's LinuxWorld as the OS breaths new life into the old industry standby. Corporations are beginning to take notice .
Intel has created an internal group devoted to developing technology for the life sciences market, one of the remaining hot areas in the computer world.
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