Linux in Business

Lack of a business-grade accounting system tailored for Australia's onerous taxation system has long kept even the most die-hard Linux fans tied to Windows, but all that is set to change with the…

GroundWork Open Source, Inc., the leader in open source systems and network management software, today announced that it has secured $12.5 million in its third round of venture capital financing.…

I guess you have enough family dinner conversations about open source, someone in the family is bound to write a paper on the topic at some point. And so my brother has. Clark is finishing up his…

One way to know that the open source market is maturing is to analyze how fast companies are able to get to significant revenues. By "significant" I mean $10M and on a sharp, upward ramp. When I…

Talk to anyone who follows hiring trends in IT and they’ll tell you the same thing: having Linux proficiency is growing increasingly important in getting and keeping a job in IT.

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Matt Asay has some good advice for folks asking him for career advice: "Work for an open source company."

I'd wholeheartedly agree. I'd like to add "or within the open source group of a…

Many small businesses have avoided Linux for a variety of reasons: not enough applications, complexity of installation or that it requires too much technical know-how to run. The technology has…

The amount of venture capital funding invested in the Linux and open source-related vendors tracked by Computer Business Review rose 131% in 2006, vastly outpacing the IT market as a whole.

Open-source software, once seen as the province of propeller heads and anti-capitalist visionaries, is winning the respect of the most clear-eyed capitalists of all: the venture capital community…

MontaVista Software, Inc., today announced it has secured $21 million in funding led by Siemens Venture Capital. Also participating were NEC, Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, Aplix and others…