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• IBM not re-entering PC world with Linux machine

  The company says it is not getting back into the PC market, despite selling 'Microsoft-free' PCs, running Linux and OpenOffice, in eastern Europe

• Microsoft plays open but patent jaws still have teeth

  Despite Microsoft's claim it will not sue developers that build free open source software on Microsoft platforms, a caveat leaves a yawning space for its legal teeth to gnash those that commercialise the software.

• Novell gives Linux mainframes a start

  Novell has anounced a pre-built "starter" system for Suse Linux Enterprise Server, which will eliminate the complicated procedure normally required to get Linux going on a mainframe, the company claims.

• Will change of CEO hit Red Hat?

  The man who led Linux seller Red Hat from a newly public but largely unproven open source company to a force to be reckoned with is giving his office to an executive largely unknown in the software industry.

• Vista still struggling as Linux finds its feet

  Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 percent of companies say they expect to move all desktops to the operating system, according to a survey released this week. Furthermore, adoption of Linux continues to gather pace, with a particular emphasis on the desktop emerging.

• VMware shares secrets in security drive

  Virtualisation vendor VMware has quietly begun sharing some of its software secrets with the IT security industry under an unannounced plan to create better ways of securing virtual machines.

• Red Hat and Suse boosted by EU education

  The French Education Ministry is deploying thousands of Red Hat Linux-based servers while Germany is moving 40 percent of its university students to Suse Linux.

• Microsoft agitates for open-source patent pacts

  Following some frosty responses to Microsoft's controversial patent deal with Novell last year, the software maker has begun a more aggressive attempt to persuade open-source software companies to license its know-how.

• Qantas ditches Linux for AIX

  Qantas will next month shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's Unix variant AIX as part of its wide-ranging eQ transformation project.

• Oracle yet to tip Red Hat

  Oracle is yet to provide evidence Australian customers are switching to its Red Hat Linux support program despite announcing new business deals for the last quarter.

• Oracle bands with open-source patent group

  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.

• Red Hat doubles JBoss funding

  Open-source specialist Red Hat claims that it is doubling the amount of research and development investment in JBoss the open-source application server company it acquired last June.

• Red Hat bands with open-source allies

  Red Hat, planning a new expansion beyond its core Linux operating system business, will launch a service later this year called the Red Hat Exchange to sell partners' open-source software.

• Wotif.com adopts Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  Red Hat Linux Enterprise Version 5 has just been released and already Australian accommodation Web site Wotif.com is implementing the solution.

• Red Hat releases Enterprise Linux 5

  Open-source specialist Red Hat has released the latest version of its Linux distribution, which will now feature in-built virtualisation and clustering technology.

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