The GNOME project has released version 2.26 of its eponymous open source desktop environment for Linux. It adds support for MAPI to Evolution, the messaging client in GNOME, allowing it to work with all versions of Microsoft's Exchange Server. It also adds the ability to open Outlook mailbox (.pst) files.

A YEAR AGO, Ron Hovsepian spoke about moving to the east. According to Reuters, he was bound to spend approximately $100 million on these moves. It obviously requires some great long-term savings to be able to reward him with a huge bonus [1, 2] despite a huge slump.

As IBM's acquisition of Sun Microsystems inches closer, Novell's role in harming Java and OpenOffice.org is revisited

WITH abysmal results and no major deal since the last quarterly report, Novell is clearly headed nowhere, whereas Red Hat - by contrast - carries on growing, so it's a Novell issue, not a GNU/Linux issue.

The different mistakes Microsoft made that will make users shift to Linux

But here’s the zillion-dollar question: Is Cloudera really the next hot open source start-up, perhaps a nascent XenSource (bought by Citrix for a gorgeous $500 million)? Or will it be just another fledgling rushing into the crowded cloud computing sector?

Intel is handing over its mobile Linux effort to the Linux Foundation to stimulate broader interest.

If you are a new online business owner, one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to not become a whore to Microsoft, their high cost, and their ludicrous licensing system.