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PSA Peugeot Citroen and open source software giant Novell have signed a multiyear contract that will deploy the Linux operating system on thousands of company computers that already run Windows, Novell announced Tuesday at the Solutions Linux 2007 show in Paris. The French car manufacturing company ...

Pentaho, the maker of an open source business intelligence suite, last week launched a new release of its Pentaho Dashboards application that provides live and dynamic integration with Google Maps. The integration leverages new Pentaho Ajax components to provide interactive geographical visualizatio...

Agilysys and Red Hat announced Thursday that they have signed an enterprise reseller agreement to deliver Red Hat open source solutions to Agilysys customers. The agreement authorizes Agilysys Enterprise Solutions Group as a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, and will enable the two organizations to...

TransGaming, a developer of software portability products for the electronic entertainment industry, announced Thursday that the company's Cedega portability engine will be incorporated into Mandriva Linux 2007. The integration of Cedega within the Mandriva Linux 2007 installer will allow users of t...

Solectron, a provider of electronics manufacturing and integrated supply chain services, won a multi-year contract from Sun Microsystems for its legacy StorageTek product line. As part of the agreement, Sun will transfer to Solectron the operations at its StorageTek manufacturing facility in Puerto ...

Open source database provider EnterpriseDB announced Tuesday the release of EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.1 Release 2, an enterprise-class relational database management system that runs applications written for Oracle databases. This latest release of the product features automated migration of da...

Xandros, a provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows, announced that retail giant CompUSA is now selling the Xandros desktop product in all of its stores across the United States. The Xandros product line offers home and business users a complete, stable, and secure alternative to costly...

Japanese, Chinese and South Korean firms have jointly developed an Asian version of the Linux operating system, and are preparing to unveil the Chinese and Korean versions in Beijing on Thursday. A Japanese version will follow in October.

Nielsen//NetRatings reported today that escalating interest in the Firefox browser garnered a 237 percent spike in unique visitors to the Web site from nine months ago when the site first met Nielsen//NetRatings' minimal reporting levels in June 2004. More than 2.6 million people visited the Firefox...

The open-source KDE Project announced yesterday the release of its K Desktop Environment 3.4. The latest release, which has been in development for more than a year, includes accessibility features the organization says will be a boon for partially sighted and speech-impaired users. KDE 3.4 includes...

The U.S. browser usage share of Firefox, the upstart Mozilla-based browser that has become a champion of the open-source movement, has grown by more than a third over the past month, according to the latest independent study from WebSideStory, a provider of on-demand Web analytics. According to the ...

The independent, open-source KDE Project today announced the availability of KDE 3.3.2, a maintenance release for its latest, most advanced free desktop suite for GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems. KDE 3.3.2 ships with a basic desktop and eighteen other packages including administration, network, edu...

Amazon subsidiary A9.com today released its new A9 toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. The toolbar enables Firefox users to search the Web using A9.com bookmarks, site history, A9 lists and A9 diary features. Users can download the A9 toolbar in less than two minutes from the A9.com home pa...

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 ...

Red Hat today announced the appointment of Charles E. Peters, Jr. as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Most recently, Peters held the position of CFO with Burlington Industries. Peters' responsibilities as CFO at Red Hat will include accounting, finance, treasury, tax, credit and...