PSA Peugeot Citroen Chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

PSA Peugeot Citroen, the second-largest automobile manufacturer in Europe, and Novell just signed a multiyear contract allowing the deployment of up to 20,000 Linux desktops plus 2,500 Linux…

SourceKibitzer became the largest database of Java Open Source measurements

According to the SourceKibitzer's management estimates, there are 5 000 active Open Source projects written in Java language out of 50 000 existing ones. For the moment the company has measured…

Commercial DVR Software Comes to Desktop Linux

Linspire, Inc. developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the community desktop Linux operating system, and SageTV, a pioneer in personal video…

Call for Participation for Ubuntu Live 2007

After six developer summits, many more sprints and countless informal meetings amongst our developers, maybe it’s time to invite our users, customers and partners to the party? Together with O’…

Coverity Names David Maxwell as Open Source Strategist

Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's most advanced source code analysis solution, today announced the appointment of David Maxwell as the company's first Open Source Strategist. Maxwell will…

3Com embraces open source

3Com is moving away from proprietary solutions by creating what it says is an open platform for its enterprise-class switches and routers.

The company announced today the creation of what…

Linux phone to call in down under

Multinational mobile handset makers may be dabbling with Linux-powered phones for Asia and the U.S., but the Australian market has been largely ignored, that is until OpenMoko arrives later this…

Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?

Barely a week after a U.S. judge approved a landmark antitrust agreement with Microsoft, company executives were swapping e-mails suggesting Dell deserved a beating for its growing interest in…

Free software vs open source

I heard that the open source software movement grew up when it was noticed that people reacted badly to the idealism that the phrase “free software” suggests. In an attempt to attract more people…

Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the…