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Microsoft and Novell are proudly announcing the biggest proof-point to date that their groundbreaking alliance to work together for the benefit of their customers has real traction: Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is gearing up to take advantage of Microsoft and Novell's collaboration and in...

Two main representatives of the Linux community -- Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group -- have merged to form the Linux Foundation. The group is supported by several major firms, including Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, NEC, Novell and Oracle, which serve as foundin...

Sun Microsystems is gunning for Red Hat, with updated support pricing in conjunction with an update of its Solaris 10 operating system, the company announced Tuesday. The updated operating system, open source Solaris 10 11/06, comes with support subscriptions at what Sun describes as half the price ...

Adobe Systems on Wednesday released Flash Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux open source operating systems. Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy rich Internet applications on the Linux platform using ...

"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The question seemingly has no real answer, and biologists can argue either reply ad nauseam. The computer world has an equally pervasive question that cannot provide a single answer: "What are the top three Linux distributions?" Ask any collection o...

Remember when AOL thought it was doing the world's researchers a big favor and made a boatload of online user behavior data openly available? Remember the unintended consequences? It became fairly easy to link up user preference data with some actual identifiable users. Users were upset, AOL looked ...

Jeremy Allison, a prominent open source software developer and Samba project cofounder, announced last week that he would be leaving Suse Linux vendor Novell over the company's patent pact with Microsoft. The November interoperability and patent agreement between Novell and Microsoft has upset a num...

Financial heavyweights are among the first IT customers to take up Microsoft's offer for Linux -- delivered to its Windows customers through Redmond's recent deal with Novell, which signed up its Suse Linux for the interoperability and patent partnership last month. AIG Technologies, Credit Suisse a...

XenSource wants its open source Xen virtualization technology to win over large enterprise customers, and now the company is eyeing smaller, wider markets with new virtualization products aimed at Windows and more mainstream IT users. On the heels of last month's release of XenEnterprise, XenSource ...

Microsoft and Novell this week touted results of a recent survey -- sponsored by both companies -- indicating that nearly all IT customers at large organizations overwhelmingly approved of their Windows-Linux interoperability and patent protection deal. Of 201 survey respondents whose organizations ...

Linux is fast becoming my operating system of choice because it lacks the software bloat and high overhead plaguing both Microsoft and Apple computing. Those words do not come easily to me. I have been a devout Windows user from the early days. Each Linux distribution offers a distinct flavor of the...

Linux has long been a contender in the corporate world to Windows. In addition, consumer interest is on the rise for this free, open source alternative to Windows or the Macintosh OS. Linux developed along similar lines as Windows in terms of GUI and performance capabilities with one major distinct...

Microsoft's Open XML office software format, pushed by the tech giant to compete with the Open Document Format, cleared a standards hurdle this week, winning approval from the Ecma international standards body. The vote was not unanimous, however, as ODF supporter and Ecma member IBM gave Microsoft'...

With reported fiscal fourth quarter 2006 revenue of US$245 million, Novell missed Wall Street estimates and expectations this week, causing the software and services company stock price to slip more than 9 percent. Novell, which went through major leadership changes this year, also indicated that it...

Novell is working with Microsoft and other developers to create bidirectional open source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between OpenOffice and Microsoft Office. The companies said the first translator, for word processing, will be available by the end of Jan. 2007.

Novell unveiled its new Open Enterprise Server 2 this week, completing a shift of Novell workgroup solutions, particularly NetWare, over to the Suse Linux platform. Highlighting support from backup and security vendors CA, Symantec, McAfee and others, OES 2 is set to ship in 2007 and will feature en...

Novell has pulled out of the open source Hula Project, a community development effort that it kicked off early last year to compete with e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solutions such as Microsoft's Exchange and IBM's Domino servers. Novell encouraged continued development of the Hula server, ...

Taking advantage of open source developer dissatisfaction with Novell's recent partnership and patent deal with Microsoft, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth invited Novell's OpenSuse community members to defect to the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Ubuntu was created by Shuttleworth. The Microsoft-Nov...

Microsoft and Novell, participants in a recent historic Windows-Linux technology- and patent-sharing pact, are having some differences of opinion over the existence of Microsoft technology in the Linux operating system. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fired up Linux and open source supporters by claimin...

Red Hat says it is ready to unveil its biggest release in two years. Developers and users of the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux have packed on more than 1,000 new components for stability, security and virtualization, among other features, according to the company. The unveiling of RHEL 5 Beta...