A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

Wake up little SUSE, Wake up. No, that's not good enough. Wake up SUSE customers, wake up. Novell is jeopardizing the future of Linux for its own short-term rewards. If you want to see Linux…

Microsoft says open to more Linux-type deals

Microsoft Corp. is open to more deals like one it just agreed with Novell for open-source Linux software, but believes customers will continue to pay for software, its chief executive told an…

Novell Releases Mono 1.2 with Enhanced Support for .NET on Linux

Novell announced the release of Mono(R) version 1.2, a significant advancement in the expansion of the Mono project and an important milestone toward compatibility with version 2.0 of the .NET…

GNOME 2.17.2 Released

"This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME 2.18.0, which will be released in March 2007. New features are coming in at a nice rate, and that's great. A lot of bug fixes too…

First Open Source Dispensed Storage Software From Cleversafe

Cleversafe Project Continues Expansion with New Desktop Application and Graphical User Interface for Improved Usability for Open Source Dispersed Storage Grids

ISPCON, SANTA CLARA, CA,…

Open Source VoIP Takes A Few Steps Forward

As voice-over-IP gains ground in businesses and with consumers, the open-source community sees an opportunity. While open source never posed a strong challenge to conventional voice technology,…

Open-Xchange Named to CRN’s “Emerging Vendors” 75

Leading open source collaboration software provider recognized by partners for high ROI, innovative product

TARRYTOWN, NY, November x, 2006 – Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open…

The Linux desktop is dead

Linux is unlikely ever to be a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows on the desktop for corporate IT departments, according to leading CIOs.

Just this week new research by the National…

Dell customer gets Windows refund

Thanks to Dell, one UK Linux user has succeeded in the perennial quest to buy and use a laptop without paying for an unused bundled OS.

Dell today gave freelance programmer and sysadmin…

OpenSSL Project Adopts the Next Generation Standard Cipher 'Camellia'

The OpenSSL Project, an international open source community, adopted "Camellia," a 128-bit block cipher(1) algorithm jointly developed in 2000 by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation ('NTT…