Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: How Microsoft Created a 'Chokehold' on OEMs

E-mail from Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Manager. The volume license agreement, basically means that the OEMs get penalised for selling anything other than Windows. The document suggests the DOJ…

Novell linked to 'Windows cheaper than Linux' statement

The press release, issued late on Wednesday, announced that UK-based bank HSBC has agreed to adopt technology from Novell and Microsoft's recently announced partnership.

In the release,…

Apache Software Foundation: 2007 Open Source Outlook

Recently, Apache Software Foundation Director Jim Jagielski spoke with Open Enterprise Trends about the warming climate for Open Source in 2007. Jagielski, who himself has actively contributed to…

Ubuntu 7.04 beta freeze now in effect

We are now one week from the beta release of 7.04 and have just entered beta freeze.

During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team, so if you have…

Beryl 0.2.0 Released

Beryl 0.2.0 is a complete overhaul of Beryl. The last stable release 0.1, featured a very fun, and eye-candy based compositing window manager. However, since it’s release, many parts of beryl have…

Novell Delivers First Automated Desktop Management Solution With Native Directory Support for Microsoft Networks

Novell today introduced a new solution to significantly ease desktop management of Windows operating systems, including Vista, for customers who need streamlined management in their Microsoft and…

GNOME 2.18 Released

The GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.18, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination…

Xandros and O3Spaces to Deliver OpenDocument Collaboration

Xandros announced an agreement to provide OpenDocument and MS Office document collaboration, management and retention services for the forthcoming release of Xandros Server 2.0 C Standard Edition…

Walmart.com: Open Source Powers Enterprise Mashups

Eugene Ciurana, one of Walmart.com’s most influential platform architects, says that large F100 companies are setting their future enterprise IT strategies using many more open standards and Open…

OpenVZ Software Available Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

The OpenVZ project (http://openvz.org) today announced availability of its operating system (OS) server virtualization software for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) kernel.

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