Citing the results of its "CIO Pulse" quarterly survey, investment firm UBS said Tuesday that the rapid rate of adoption of the Linux operating system by businesses is likely to slow in the next year.

SMB benefits from virtualization in small IT environment. This allowed them to reap benefits of advanced technology without breaking the bank to get it.

Darl McBride says his company has strong products and a growing number of customers, so it will survive regardless of the outcome of legal battles.

When Astaro's founders launched the company in 2000, venture capital funding for open source businesses was hard to find. CEO Jan Hichert says he and his colleagues tried but failed to secure funding and had to bootstrap. After the company was proved successful, VCs proved more willing to contribute to a company built on open source.

A study by economists from Tel Aviv University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) concludes "...that the output per contributor in open source projects is much higher when licenses are less restrictive and more commercially oriented."

he AMD-based HP dx2250 desktop will be offered preloaded with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop.

Soon after I joined Novell, I started blogging about our technology directions. My first entry back in April 2006 was entitled “The Linux Desktop has arrived: The better desktop”. I argued that with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 – due to ship that summer – that the time had come for more significant inroads for Linux into the desktop market.

For years, Microsoft has reigned supreme as the 'only' choice for OEM partners on the x86 architecture. Later on, Apple switched from PPC (Power PC) to x86, but really did not make a dent in the OEM market, as Apple produces its own hardware, with OS X being a means to that end.