Veteran tech entrepreneur Bob Bickel has let out a whisper of his new venture, Ringside Networks, which will aim to make social networking applications work outside the network.
Early results in a study that aims to track open source installations in business has seen Ubuntu and Firefox race to the top of the charts.
Programmer Christopher Montgomery believes the Ogg Vorbis audio format can challenge Microsoft, Netscape and even MP3. Do he and his cohorts have more than a snowball's chance?
After four years of development, the Open Graphics Project last week made available for pre-order its first open source graphics card.
IBM has taken a minority stake in EnterpriseDB, an open source database that competes with Oracle and MySQL.
The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.
MySQL chief Marten Mickos discusses software patents, Oracle, making money with open source and why his company is the Ikea of the database world.
Former Ximian chief executive David Patrick, now a general manager at Novell, says the Office productivity suite is the key to breaking Microsoft's hold on the desktop.
Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles.
A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.
Determined to outduel Bill Gates Lotus founder Mitch Kapor is in search of an Outlook killer which promises to be a blast from the past, and open source.
OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, which provides users and businesses with an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.
Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.
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