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…

SCALE 5x - Linux Expo in Los Angeles This Weekend

SCALE 5x, the 2007 Southern California Linux Expo will be held in Los Angeles, CA this weeken On Feb 9-11, 2007. It will include: 50+ seminars, 70+ exhibitors, BoFs, and more. Highlighted…

Hifn Advances Open Source Cryptography

Hifn, the power behind network and information security, announced today a company initiative to advance the level of support and ease of use of hardware security processors. Hifn has contracted…

Winning the Linux Wars

Competing with Linux once filled Microsoft partners with dread, but now many are taking on the open source operating system with growing self-confidence -- and success. Here are the tactics for…

The FSF Can't Ban Novell’s Linux Distribution Rights

Reuters posted a story on Saturday morning, of all times, titled “FSF says Novell could be banned from selling Linux” that sent the blogosphere and several media outlines into a frenzy of activity…