Oracle Wednesday said that 1,500 companies have signed up for its Unbreakable Linux discount support program since it was announced one year ago.

When the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) launched alongside Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) in March and was expanded upon at the Red Hat Summit last May, I’m not sure a lot of people knew exactly what to expect from it.

I'm reading through the transcript from an excellent CIO event, the CIO Survival Guide for Web 2.0... The conversation is wide-ranging and insightful. Here are a few of the gems as they relate to open source

New Ideas Corp. announced the immediate availability of their custom-built C3 workstations and laptops preloaded with Ubuntu on C3PC.com today. New Ideas Corp. began selling their custom built PCs regionally in 1997, as a way to provide high quality hardware to business at a lower cost than other builders and resellers.

Mount Carmel, Haifa – A group of researchers headed by Dr. Benny Pinkas from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Haifa succeeded in finding a security vulnerability in Microsoft's "Windows 2000" operating system.

As I was doing some research for another article, I ran across a forum in which small business users were discussing why they wanted a particular software product (Quickbooks) ported to Linux. One poster's comments caught my attention. What he said convinced me that all small businesses should be running Linux on their desktops.

The slow, toe-in-the-water approach by PC makers to the Linux desktop continued on Wednesday, with Dell (NSDQ:Dell) and Novell (NSDQ:NOVL) formalizing a deal to ship Dell OptiPlex 330 and 755 desktops preloaded with Novell's SLED 10, to commercial accounts in China.

The idea that companies will succeed in the 21st century by drawing in the brightest minds from everywhere, not just within their own four walls, has gathered momentum over the last decade.