Release of ACCESS Linux Platform for Smartphones Pushed Back

Back at 3GSM in February, PalmSource (now officially ACCESS Systems) introduced the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP), a new Linux-based mobile operating system (OS) for smartphones that's intended to…

IDC predicts Microsoft’s anti-piracy efforts will boost Linux

IDC is the latest of the analyst firms to push its predictions for 2007 out the door, and pretty interesting reading they make too: particularly the prediction that Microsoft’s anti-piracy efforts…

Palm Beach County Turns to Novell to Secure and Manage its Network

Palm Beach County, one of the five largest counties in the U.S., has tapped Novell for identity and desktop management across its network, leading to significantly reduced IT administration costs…

Red Hat finds home in heart of capitalism

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates once likened the open-source movement to communism, but there was little evidence of that on Tuesday when Linux specialist Red Hat took over the New York Stock…

What's Next For Open Source Development Labs?

Fallout from the Microsoft-Novell pact continued last week when the leading Linux group, Open Source Development Labs, cut nine of its staff of 28, including CEO Stuart Cohen, who resigned. OSDL's…

OpenSUSE Drops ReiserFS; Sign of Things to Come?

While Novell might not be the most popular company in the Linux world today, it’s still a very good way to gauge what’s going on in the Linux community. Their latest OpenSUSE release, OpenSUSE 10.…

Google Web Toolkit 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source

Today is quite a milestone for Google Web Toolkit: with the GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, our team is very happy to announce that all of GWT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. There's a lot…

Comparison of Linux LiveDistros

LiveDistro is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live…

Novell Tells the Court It Still Wants Those Transcripts from SCO v. IBM

Novell has filed its Reply in Support of Novell's Expedited Motion to Compel Production of Deposition Transcripts and Exhibits from SCO v. IBM.

Novell is very polite about it, as usual, but…

Universities Save Time and Money With Open-Xchange

Stability, Availability and Reduced Costs Drive Widespread Academic Adoption of Open-Xchange

TARRYTOWN, NY, December 12, 2006 – Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source…