Linux Foundation Releases New Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 Specification
At the Communications Ecosystem Conference today The Linux Foundation, the new organization formed last month from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group,…
JasperSoft & MySQL AB Partner to Deliver Operational Business Intelligence Solutions
JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, and MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced the availability of Jasper…
Linux Could Prevent Use of 4,200,000,000 kg of Fossil Fuels a Year
There's been a lot of talk in the last couple weeks about the significant negative impact that Windows Vista will have on the environment. Almost 100% of this negative impact is the waste that it…
What You Need to Know About Linux Rootkits
A rootkit is a group of software tools which an attacker can use to hide their tracks. A rootkit can also contain software which allows the attacker to get root access and steal or remove files on…
Money for nothing? Open source VC funding
Matthew Aslett assesses the growth of venture funding for open source vendors and wonders where the payback will come from.
"The VC community is trying to predict where the market is going…
Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?
Barely a week after a U.S. judge approved a landmark antitrust agreement with Microsoft, company executives were swapping e-mails suggesting Dell deserved a beating for its growing interest in…
Open-Xchange Deploys Largest Open Source Software Customer Win in History
Open-Xchange Inc., announced today that it has signed a partnership with 1&1 Internet, the world’s largest web hosting company, to provide hosted email and collaboration services based upon…
Open-source Replicator?
The Altair 8800, introduced in the early 1970s, was the first computer you could build at home from a kit. It was crude, didn't do much, but many historians would say that it launched the desktop…
Sugar me OLPC
"Work on the OLPC XO is progressing - and we got past one of the biggest hurdles so far: integration into the Sugar environment.
The CERTI Foundation, a R&D foundation in Brazil that is…
Ohio school district saves $412K with Linux
The technology budget for the district last year was $159,000, so the Linux licensing fee of 50 cents per user was a far cry from the six-figure cost for sticking with Microsoft.
Ohio…