Linux in Business

The Linux operating system is the recipient of 75% of all vendor investment in open source software, according to a new report from the Harvard Business School, which also indicates that vendor…

Open source vendors can't be run like their closed source counterparts. The programming talent, and the people behind that talent, aren't like other managers.

I thought of this when looking…

The past few weeks have been a lesson in olive tree gardening. Not literally, of course. Instead, I'm referring to the analogy between how one grafts olive trees and how one grafts employees into…

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…

Total revenue for the quarter was $99.7 million, an increase of 52% from the year-ago quarter and 19% from the prior quarter. Subscription revenue was $84.9 million, up 56% year-over-year and 19%…

When I was in college, lower level CS course assignments were done in DOS PC's networked through Novell Netware. Once a student got to take higher level courses, he/she was given an account into…

NEC will join IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony as an investor and licensee in Open Invention Network (OIN), an intellectual property company formed to further the Linux environment by…

Garmin, the company that designs, manufactures, and markets navigation and communications equipment for the aviation and consumer markets is looking for a Linux Software Engineer.

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Linux Networx, The Linux Supercomputing Company, today announced that it has completed a $37 million round of funding. The round includes new investors Lehman Brothers, Inc. and Canaccord Adams,…

IT is no longer a question whether or not local companies should go open source. It is whether local providers can deliver open source solutions, executives of local software companies have said…