Microsoft/Novell Acquisition of XenSource Confirmed by Ray Ozzie?

"Yesterday we mentioned Matt Asay’s speculation about an upcoming Novell acquition. The worst case scenario, as explained before, is that where Novell scoops Xen and then punishes other GNU/Linux…

Air Force needs quick price quote on Linux Cluster

Computer companies have just six days to offer price quotes to the U.S. Air Force for a multiprocessor computational cluster for running serial and parallel jobs.

Asking for quotes are…

Linux Professionals in China: Are they Different?

A couple weeks back I asked a friend, Song Kewei at the OSS Promotion Union , to tell me who he thought the top 10 Open Source professionals in China were. He gave me a list, which I will keep…

Indian IT Services Organization Inclining Towards Linux

In line with many A one European cities moving towards open source technology like Amsterdam, the southern India city of Chennai is also moving towards Linux. The state of Tamil Nadu, is deploying…

Red Hat Summit 2007 call for sessions

The Red Hat Summit 2007 is coming up in May. This year, the Fedora Project is sharing a track called "Leading Edge" with projects like Mugshot and OLPC.

Donald Fischer, Chris Blizzard, and…

Interview with Jeremy Allison

Samba guru explains why he couldn't stomach the Microsoft-Novell deal. “If you want to sell out, you should ask for more," he says.

Jeremy Allison is a hero in the open source community…

MySQL Refines its GPL Licensing Scheme to GPLv2 Only

Just before the holiday's MySQL refined its licensing scheme from “GPLv2 or later” to “GPLv2 only“, in order to make it an option, not an obligation for the company to move to GPLv3.

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SCALE To Host Women in Open Source Mini Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Los Angeles, CA

January 2, 2007

The Southern California Linux Expo announces plans…

Straddling the Open Source/Proprietary Fence

Given the jaw-dropping occurrences in the open source world last year (Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss, Oracle’s announcement of “Unbreakable Linux,” and Novell’s patent pact with Microsoft, to…

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Wins Technology of the Year Award

Novell today announced its SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 has earned a 2007 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award, being named "Best Linux Desktop." According to InfoWorld, "Novell's revamped…