Former Linux Journal editor Nicholas Petreley argues that the open-source operating system will break through big time on the client side, especially if pre-installs increase and the KDE graphical environment is adopted.
[Editor's Note: This article offers a counterpoint and rebuttal to our earlier article, 7 Reasons Why Linux Won't Succeed On The Desktop.]
Read more »Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.
Read more »"It's a very different marketplace, and having this very American, centralized view and trying to do things in the old way is not going to work," said Red Hat Vice President Michael Chen on opening up business opportunities for his company in China. "You need to have a longer-term strategy. Try to build your China strategy for five to 10 years."
Read more »[Open-source] projects that have really gotten traction represent a codification of things that are commodities. The OS wars are largely over. Let's decide on a common platform. Therefore, Linux makes sense.
Read more »One area though we haven't yet analyzed is how their official Linux driver now compares to their much-optimized Windows Catalyst driver. Today, however, we will be looking just at that as we compare the ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB performance under Linux and Microsoft Windows Vista.
Read more »This guide describes how to set up a full email solution in Debian Linux (all code is from Debian Etch). I was asked to design a secure, scalable, portable solution for a small company.
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Just to tell potential French Dell/Ubuntu buyers. DON'T DO IT !
Hardly a day passes where Linux isn't mentioned in IT circles and by techno-geeks everywhere. But why should you care? In this article, we'll explain why moving to Linux is a smart move for your business and your bottom line.
Read more »Stephane Saux, IT Director of SFGate.com, the Web site of the San Francisco Chronicle, begins a series of questions and answers about a recent Linux migration project.
Read more »Projity is a company that provides two alternatives to Microsoft's popular Project application. Project-On-Demand is software-as-a-service (SAAS) code that runs in any browser and is available via a monthly subscription. OpenProj is a desktop version of the application that is built on Java and is licensed with the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL).
Read more »This week, the Mozilla Foundation released its 2006 financial statement, telling the world that Google provides 85 per cent of the revenue for the foundation and its Mozilla Corp. subsidiary.
Read more »A Silicon Valley start-up backed by an early Google employee is taking a novel approach to building a business for domestic robots and driverless vehicles... [they plan] to make [their] robotics software open source.
Read more »Want to know how much money free software can make? Look no further than Mozilla and its financial statement for 2006.
Read more »Chatting to Steve Raby, UK country manager for open source ECM vendor Nuxeo yesterday, an interesting point was raised around the issue of motivation of open source developers versus developers on proprietary poducts, and hiring them.
Read more »"...Wales made his intentions official at a March 8 news conference in Tokyo, where he said that his new for-profit company, Wikia, would lead a project to launch a community-driven, open-source search site by the end of 2007 [...] Wikia Search has a somewhat confusing genealogy.
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