Linux/Open Source

SpringSource Application Platform 1.0 is an open source, lightweight version of an application server and will compete with products from Oracle, IBM, and Red Hat.

In its continuing efforts to build support for its OpenStorage system, Sun Microsystems announced that it will provide new software tools and expanded professional support to assist developers in building open-source storage solutions. With the new resources, Sun estimates the average developer will be able to set up an OpenSolaris server is about 10 minutes.

Enterprise search vendor Dieselpoint is behind a new open-source project centering on a document "pipeline"-- or as the...

Microsoft is extending its management software to Linux and Unix by integrating some of the open source OpenPegasus project's code into System Center Operations Manager.

San Francisco - Fonality takes a different approach with PBXtra, which, like cousin Trixbox and Critical Links' EdgeBox, incorporates the open source Asterisk.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative wants more kinds of Sugar, and some developers are not sweet on that idea. Sugar is the user interface created for the low-cost laptop developed by a team headed by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte. The XO laptop, originally intended for a price point of $100 and incorporating an open-source Linux operating system, is designed for use by children in third-world countries.

Makers of open-source software received more venture funding last quarter than ever, according to a new report, but the youngest open-source startups also set a record -- for their dearth of funding.

Fennec, the mobile version of the Firefox browser, will simplify and enhance Web browsing on cell phones and usher in an era...

Mozilla chairman Mitchell Baker wants developers to bring the same features and functionality to handheld devices that they have to the PC.

The new version of the popular Linux distribution offers long-term support, targeted at business users.

Open-source developers should stop bickering, unite and jointly develop a Windows user interface to make XO laptops more...

San Francisco - Sun Microsystems is stepping up efforts to boost Java usage in Linux shops by working to remove some final encumbrances in the open-source Java platform.

A Linux computer embedded in an ExpressCard could speed up your Windows machine by offloading the tedious and cycle-churning tasks of protecting your system from viruses, malware, and intrusion.

Asustek Computer plans to share its experience with open-source software in its popular Eee PC low-cost laptop at the...

Ubuntu Server 8.04 will be supported for five years, only the second version of Ubuntu to be guaranteed Long Term Support.

The companies say they are trying to convert more users to supported SUSE Linux Enterprise.

Support from the Linux Mobile Foundation, Google's Android initiative, and Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech are seen as fueling the prediction from analyst firm ABI.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Microsoft and Novell have announced they were expanding their alliance in making patent-protected and open-source programs interoperable into the hot China market.

Open source database VP Marten Mickos enjoys "honeymoon" as release date slips.

The new release will be supplemented with MySQL Workbench, a database design tool built from the open source DBDesigner4 project.

The "Big Two" Linux distributors will continue to court enterprise customers but see no profit in a consumer desktop product.

Microsoft has "dramatically" changed because of open-source software, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said...

San Francisco - Microsoft has "dramatically" changed because of open-source software, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Thursday as part of a wide-ranging discussion during the annual Most Valuable Professional summit in Seattle. He also talked about Microsoft's mesh concept and the importance of virtualization.

Red Hat is dropping its consumer Linux desktop. That makes sense, analysts said, because the desktop is not Red Hat's core strength. Red Hat develops Linux-based software and solutions for enterprises.

Linux commands only about 1.2% of the desktop market in the United States, according to research group Gartner.

Remember the hacked MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference a few weeks ago? Apple has fixed the flaw that let Independent Security Evaluator researcher Charlie Miller gain unauthorized access to the machine as part of the Pwn 2 Own hacking contest.

San Francisco - Red Hat has no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market, but will continue to place its bets on a desktop for commercial markets.

Red Hat has no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market, but will continue to place its bets on a...

San Francisco - Customers at the MySQL conference this week said Sun's acquisition of the database company could increase MySQL's credibility among senior IT decision makers still skittish about using open-source software.

San Francisco - Novell's Suse Linux at the desktop is unlikely to be popular with consumers in the next three to five years, according to Novell President and CEO Ronald Hovsepian.