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In a move that gives Linux greater play in the data center, Dell has reached an agreement with Novell to certify Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on Dell PowerEdge servers. The companies said the deal would give customers more choices for fully-supported Linux platform developments. Dell Servic...

Gupta Technologies announced today that its SQLBase(R) 9.0 for Linux has been certified "Novell Ready" for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and 9. The Novell Ready designation means that the product has been designed to work with Novell's Linux family of enterprise-class software products. "GUPTA has ...

As con men the two pitiful rascals in "Huckleberry Finn" made their living by pretending to be what they were not, and then charging the gullible to share the illusion. A cynic might see parallels to Red Hat here: pretending to open source ideals while actually charging the MSCE community for the pr...

Leading open source vendor Red Hat said it will buy certain security-related assets of Netscape Security Solutions from America Online in a deal worth US$25 million. Red Hat said it will integrate the products it is buying, including the Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate Management ...

IBM unveiled a new line of Linux servers Monday, noting that it will specifically target entry-level users with competitive pricing. The company will be competing with entry-level Unix and Linux platforms developed by Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Paul Rivot, IBM's director of database serve...

A new Yankee Group survey shows only 4 percent of Unix users and 10 percent of Windows users have any desire to switch platforms. The Yankee Group report, called "Linux, Unix and Windows TCO Comparison," advises corporations to delay a Linux migration -- or any software migration -- until they can s...

Novell announced Monday that it is consolidating some of its business units in order to concentrate more fully on Linux and identity management. Four business units have now been made into two, which will also necessitate management changes at the company. "Open source offers choice in markets previ...

Linux vendors have issued patches to address vulnerability in Qt, a software toolkit that simplifies writing and maintaining GUI applications for the X Window system. The flaw was unveiled by security researcher Chris Evans, who uncovered a heap overflow in the BMP image decoder in Qt versions prior...

UserLinux is due for public beta on September 1, but already some are questioning whether the distribution can survive in an enterprise market rife with competitors. The project's leader, Bruce Perens, noted that the distribution will be free and will have the same functionality as other distributio...

As Linux moves into mainstream corporate environments, Microsoft has acknowledged that open-source software is a growing threat. The software giant, however, stops short of calling Linux a serious competitor for the desktop. The company is so strongly focused on spreading its opinions about Linux be...

It might be a dubious distinction at best, but it's one that Apple has had for a very long time: second most popular desktop operating system. Now that mantle appears destined to belong to Linux. According to Hewlett-Packard of Palo Alto, California, shipments of computers running desktop Linux shou...

Storage-management software developer Acronis has announced release of its True Image Server for Linux 8.0, the industry's first native Linux disk imaging, backup and bare-metal restore application, the company said. The South San Francisco, California-based company also announced release of a new v...

HP has launched its first pre-installed Linux notebook PC at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, labeling the release a "coming of age" for desktop Linux.

Hewlett-Packard will be the first major PC maker to offer a Linux-based notebook computer, the company announced at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. The Compaq nx5000 business notebook PC will be preinstalled with Novell's SuSE Linux 9.1, along with OpenOffice, CD-R/RW support, DVD and media player, wir...

Novell has announced that it has acquired Salmon, a British IT services company, in a deal that will link Salmon with Cambridge Technology Partners, another Novell acquisition. The company also revealed some efforts that it will be making through its earlier acquisition of SuSE Linux. It noted that ...

Former Red Hat and Cygnus Solutions executives Kim Knuttila and Eric Troan announced yesterday that they had formed Specifix, an open-source company producing Linux solutions. The new company brings together other executives and experts from the Linux and GNU open-source development tools communitie...

Munich, Germany and Norway's second largest city, Bergen, have announced that they will be switching from Microsoft in favor of Linux. The Munich city council voted 50 to 29 for the change, but has not given specific details of what will be involved in the migration. However, it was noted that the L...

IBM announced Tuesday that its Linux Center of Competency is now officially open in Bangalore, India. Like other Linux centers that IBM has created around the world, the Bangalore facility will be geared toward helping Big Blue customers in industry, government and academia move toward open-source c...

Firebird, an open-source relational database, emerged from the InterBase source code, release by Inprise Corporation -- now known as Borland -- in 2000. Firebird, which runs on Linux, Windows and a variety of Unix platforms, offers concurrency, high performance and powerful language support for stor...

Lindows has announced the release of a package containing the latest versions of three popular Linux operating systems. Linspire, Fedora and Mandrake are in the bundle, which has been named the Desktop Linux Comparison Kit. According to Lindows, the three systems were chosen on the basis of their pr...