So what's new with Linux at CES this year? That's our question. If you have the answers, let's have 'em. Because we'll be there on a Linux Hunt, just like we are every year. The difference this time is that we'd like to make this a Team Thing.

There is a growing demand for knowing the extent of open source usage, according to OpenLogic, which has undertaken a census to determine just how much OS software resides on enterprise servers. Enterprises struggle to sift through thousands of open source projects to determine what might work for them. However, not all industry watchers agree that a census is necessary.

Enterprise customers are using open-source software more and more, but issues of interoperability are still a stumbling block to widespread adoption, say customers and open-source software vendors.

2008 is upon us and we’re greeted with the news, from NetApplications, that Apple Macs running OS X account for 7.3% of computers used to access the web.

The Internet has made market research much simpler. Amazon is a gift to investors: it's an important data source for online sales, and provides listings of its bestsellers, most gifted and most wished for products. Those lists make interesting reading.

Novell executives are ending 2007 by praising their own decision last year to form an alliance with Microsoft - - a deal aimed at providing interoperatiblity between Windows and Linux.

My blogging colleague Robin Harris on Storage Bits poses an interesting question “How should Microsoft respond to very-low-cost Linux systems?” Here’s how - by trying to make cheap systems irrelevant.

The end of the year is obviously the time for the “look back,” and although we weren’t planning any grand pronouncements that 2007 was the year of social computing or anything like that (more in a moment), perhaps it’s fitting that we stumbled across an announcement from Red Hat of a changing of the guard.