GroundWork Open Source Closes Over-Subscribed $12.5 Million Series C Financing Round

GroundWork Open Source, Inc., the leader in open source systems and network management software, today announced that it has secured $12.5 million in its third round of venture capital financing.…

Qtopia Partner Community Spearheading the Advances in Mobile Linux

Trolltech, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use, today announced a wide range of Qtopia partner activities in connection with the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona Feb…

Linux Operating System To Mass-Market 3G Handsets

NXP, the newly independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced the availability of the Linux open source operating system for its 3G mobile phone system solution.

Funambol Shows Open Source Push Email, Contacts and Calendars

Funambol, the mobile open source software company, today announced it will preview its new mobile email portal for consumers at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, February 12 - 15, 2007. The…

Swedish Armed Forces Chooses Red Hat and Open Source

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Swedish Armed Forces has made the decision to migrate its servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise…

BBC plans to lock viewers into Microsoft monopoly

The UK's Open Source trade association has criticized the BBC's plans to limit access to their on-demand television services to Microsoft Windows. The Open Source Consortium (OSC) believes the…

Red Hat program ramps up services

Linux vendor, Red Hat, has established a new qualification to recognise its top tier professional service providers.

The Certified Service Provider (CSP) program initially encompasses three…

Is Windows losing out and Linux gaining?

What’s more — what looked like a David-Goliath battle between Microsoft and Linux now has Goliath crossing over to David’s side. It started with the Microsoft’s alliance with Novell, and its…

European open source providers trial franchise approach

A group of European open source suppliers have grouped together to trial the franchise model as a means to boost open source adoption among SMEs and help local providers find strength in numbers…

Amadeus Capitalizes On Airline Services With Open Source

Adoption of open source code is a key competitive factor, InformationWeek says in this week's issue. If you don't agree, then consider the case of Amadeus, the big European travel technology…