Is Ubuntu an Operating System?
Is Ubuntu an operating system? Last week at EuroOSCON, Mark Shuttleworth gave the closing keynote outlining what he believes are the major struggles faced by the open-source/free-software…
Startup Linux Cluster Company SiCortex Receives $21 Million
SiCortex, a startup that makes Linux computer clusters, announced that it has closed a $21 million round of funding, led by Chevron Technology Ventures through its venture capital arm, CTTV…
Agilysys and Red Hat Partner to Deliver Open Source Solutions
Agilysys, Inc., a provider of enterprise computer technology solutions, and Red Hat, Inc., provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that the two companies have signed…
SCO Begs Novell Court to Stay Novell's PSJ/PI Motion Until IBM is Decided
Heavens. End game is turning out to be fun. SCO now begs the court to postpone its bankruptcy by... no, wait, they didn't say that. They ask for a stay on the Novell motion for partial summary…
NEC streamlines open source software
Japanese computer giant NEC will attempt to promote the use of open source software on its servers with a new testing and certification regime, it was announced today.
The $41bn a year…
Mandriva Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Linbox
Mandriva announced today that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Linbox FAS
("Linbox"). The agreement remains subject to shareholders approval.
Linbox was founded as Free and…
Vista gets Cute (Qt)
Qt (pronounced Cute) is perhaps best known as the application development framework behind the open source KDE Linux desktop. It's now ready to build applications for the competing GNOME Linux…
Linux, PDAs and consumer goods drive IT growth
Internet-related investments in Linux servers, PDAs, digital storage and new portable consumer products will be the highest growth areas in the global IT market in the next year, according to the…
Trolltech Brings Style Sheets to Desktop Applications with Qt 4.2
Trolltech, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use, today released Qt 4.2, the new version of the company's popular framework for high performance cross-platform…
Fonality Acquires Trixbox, World's Largest Asterisk Based Community
Fonality, the leader in IP telephony systems for small and medium businesses and the world's largest commercial Asterisk based deployment, today announced it has acquired trixbox, the world's…