Linux in Business

"Since the open source movement affects our lives in more and more ways, let's take a look at how the open source model is interacting with our market driven economic system."

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Following recent reports of a South African bank eying out Linux, Novell South Africa today issued a statement in which it said it had reached an agreement with First National Bank of South Africa…

H&R Block's use of open-source technologies is not about saving money, but rather about creating revenue, acquiring and retaining customers, and providing technologies they really care about,…

For more than a decade, open source software has been mostly the province of programmers. Although the underpinnings of the Internet itself are powered mostly by open source software, it’s been…

More companies are using open source programs as they become mainstream, but most still use proprietary software such as Microsoft Office, said Gary Suter, a founder of BitLeap. Proprietary, or…

The Linux on Wall Street conference in New York is an attempt to highlight Linux and open source vendors and solutions, demonstrating and pontificating on how they all can work together.

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On Monday I attended the Linux on Wall Street conference. The overall theme of the conference was leveraging open source (and Linux) to power mission-critical business applications, particularly…

There seems to be some activity this week around earnings through open source. First there is Hugh Macleod’s question about finding billionaires in open source. There were some replies, but the…

Former Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) CEO Stuart Cohen today launched a new company that will solve shared enterprise IT problems by bringing together companies to develop software at half…

Vyatta today announced it has completed its Series B financing led by Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC). In addition to leading the round, CIC has joined the Vyatta board of directors, where it…