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Novell lands major Linux server contract with Office Depot —
Dec. 12, 2007 —
Second in the Linux server business to leader Red Hat, Novell is continuing to strive for major server wins. In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1. ...
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Sun addresses OpenDS mess —
Dec. 12, 2007 —
A Sun Microsystems official said the company regrets an incident that has called Sun's commitment to open source into question and is working to reach an amicable solution. ...
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Interoperability issues hamper open-source adoption —
Dec. 12, 2007 —
While commercial open-source solutions are being broadly adopted, there are obstacles slowing that adoption, particularly around interoperability, the Open Solutions Alliance has found.
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Marc Fleury makes a comeback —
Dec. 12, 2007 —
Marc Fleury is back. The flamboyant former CEO of JBoss is joining the board of advisors of Appcelerator, an Atlanta-based company focused on enabling developers to rapidly build cross-browser RIAs (rich Internet applications) that combine with SOA (service-oriented architecture) technologies. Appcelerator is an open-source platform. ...
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SWsoft changing name to Parallels —
Dec. 12, 2007 —
SWsoft, a virtualization company that has labored in the shadow of VMware and other vendors for years, is changing its corporate name and plans to make a bigger push into this fast-growing market in 2008. ...
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Grumpy Fake Steve Jobs —
Dec. 11, 2007 —
Some of you may be wondering why Daniel Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, is on the war path against me. ...
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Juniper opens router OS to developers —
Dec. 11, 2007 —
Juniper Networks on Dec. 10 announced its intent to open up its modular JUNOS router operating system to third-party development when it launched its new Partner Solution Development Platform. ...
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Sun open-source support questioned —
Dec. 11, 2007 —
Despite a broad overture to provide greater support for its open-source projects, Sun Microsystems is facing criticism for the handling of yet another open-source effort started by former Sun employees. ...
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An Eclipse first? Who cares? —
Dec. 11, 2007 —
Opinion -- Red Hat announced the release of its JBoss Developer Studio on Dec 10, touting it as "the first open source, Eclipse-based, integrated development environment," and I want to know why that makes a difference. ...
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Sun brings Niagara 2 chip to open source —
Dec. 11, 2007 —
Sun Microsystems is releasing the specifications of its new UltraSPARC T2 processor, formally code named Niagara 2, to the open-source community Dec. 12, as part of the company's ongoing effort to build more of a community around its signature chip. ...
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Virtual Iron updates its virtualization suite —
Dec. 10, 2007 —
Virtual Iron, which has been trying carve out a place for itself in a virtualization market that continues to grow in scope and importance, is updating its namesake software suite to better address disaster recovery and high availability concerns. ...
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First Linux phone standard ships —
Dec. 09, 2007 —
Weeks after Google revealed aspirations of creating a defacto standard operating system for mobile phones, via Android and the Open Handset Alliance, a lesser known, broad-based consortium has published what it hopes can serve as an actual standard for Linux-based phones. The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum was founded in ...
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Novell delays earnings report —
Dec. 06, 2007 —
Novell stockholders were unpleasantly surprised on Dec. 5, when instead of hearing from Novell on how the Linux distributor had done over the last quarter and the full 2007 fiscal year, they were presented with an earnings announcement postponement instead. ...
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SourceForge adopts eBay-like sales model for open-source software —
Dec. 06, 2007 —
One question that people who don't know how open-source businesses work is: "How do you make money from open-source software?" SourceForge.net has a new answer to that question: sell services and support to customers using an eBay-like market.
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EMF changes tune, hails embedded Linux —
Dec. 05, 2007 —
Embedded Market Forecasters has issued a report claiming that embedded Linux is just as dependable as other real-time operating systems (RTOSes). The independently funded report appears to recant EMF's controversial Microsoft-funded report in 2003 that claimed that embedded Windows OSes were far faster and cheaper than embedded Linux. Spread the ...
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Myths stymie Linux growth —
Nov. 30, 2007 —
Opinion -- Year after year, industry pundits state, "This is the year of Linux," and year after year, those same pundits say, "The market is just not ready yet." So the big question here is, "Where are the Linux desktops?" For the most part, they're not anywhere. ...
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Eaton announces UPS support for Ubuntu —
Nov. 29, 2007 —
On the face of it, it's hardly news worth noting. On Nov. 27, Eaton announced that its Personal Solution Pac for Linux and Network Shutdown Module v3 are the first UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) power management solutions to receive Ubuntu's IHV (independent hardware vendor) Certification. ...
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It's the directory, stupid —
Nov. 29, 2007 —
Opinion -- I've been covering Linux and open-source software closely since the dawn of this millennium, and over those seven or so years I've become a believer in the potency of the open-source development model. ...
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OpenSolaris soon to run on IBM mainframes —
Nov. 28, 2007 —
LAS VEGAS--IBM and Sun Microsystems are in the final stages of an 18-month-long project to adapt the OpenSolaris operating system to run optimally on Big Blue's z System mainframes. ...
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