Tuesday - April 22, 2008
For the past five years, Finnish-born Marten Mickos has worked in Silicon Valley as CEO of MySQL -- a once-tiny company that started in Sweden and became one of the most popular suppliers of open source database software in the world. MySQL is used by a host of major Web businesses, including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon.com. Under Mickos' leadership, outside analysts estimate, the private company garnered about $50 million in revenue last year while making its source code available for anyone to use or adapt at no cost.
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Monday - April 21, 2008
As if stepping on the Linux community's toes when they first teamed up wasn't enough, Microsoft and Novell have announced a joint push into the China market to attack the Linux installed base there. They have launched what they call "an incremental investment in their relationship" that will focus on "converting unsupported Linux users to supported Suse Linux Enterprise."
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Thursday - April 3, 2008
Sun Microsystems, one of the largest server makers, announced that it would increase the number of products certified for use with Ubuntu Linux, one of the fastest growing open source operating systems. The upcoming expansion is the latest development in the two-year relationship between Sun and Canonical.
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Monday - March 3, 2008
Drupal, the wildly popular open source social publishing system which has been downloaded more than 2 million times since it was released in 2001, will soon be available as a commercial distribution. The news was announced at DrupalCon Boston 2008, a convention of Drupal users, being held in Boston March 3-6.
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Wednesday - January 16, 2008
Sun Microsystems has announced plans to acquire MySQL, maker of the popular MySQL database system, for $1 billion. Sun -- long a proponent and developer of open source systems -- agreed to pay $800 million in cash and assume liability for $200 million in stock options. The deal likely won't be completed until the end of the fiscal year.
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Friday - November 30, 2007
Zonbu, maker of the Zonbu Mini desktop, unveiled a new addition to its line of hassle-free, affordable and green PCs -- the Zonbu Notebook computer. The inexpensive, Linux-based laptops include a service contract, billed monthly, that takes over the tasks of backing up data and monitoring the system's security.
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Thursday - November 15, 2007
Sun Microsystems and Dell have put aside their longstanding rivalry and teamed up to offer business customers Sun's Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris operating systems preloaded on Dell's PowerEdge servers. The joint announcement Wednesday at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco follows a similar deal Sun inked with IBM back in August.
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Thursday - November 15, 2007
When it comes time to upgrade to a new version of proprietary software -- take the Windows OS, for example -- many users are less than thrilled. Upgrades can mean an added expense for anything more extensive than a bug fix or minor feature upgrades. Even free minor version upgrades of a software product can cost a considerable chunk of time backing up files.
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Thursday - November 8, 2007
Lenovo unveiled its latest offering for business users Tuesday -- two new workstations. The ThinkStation desktop computers are a first for Lenovo. The No. 3 computer maker has focused primarily on sales of its ThinkPad laptops. It is also the first time the Chinese hardware maker has added a new Think-branded PC to the line since it purchased IBM's personal computing division in 2005 for $1.75 billion.
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Wednesday - November 7, 2007
Red Hat has signed a pair of agreements with Sun Microsystems that will help put the open source company on the fast track to delivering a more complete end-to-end application development and runtime stack for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers. Red Hat has been heading in this direction for a while now.
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Friday - November 2, 2007
HP on Thursday began offering new Multi-Level Security Services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The five support services are the first of their kind offered on the Linux operating system, according to Erik Lillestolen, government program manager for Open Source and Linux Organization at HP.
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