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Red Hat Tests On-Demand Waters With Amazon Deal

Open source computing company Red Hat is testing the waters for delivering its Enterprise Linux operating system on a pay-as-you-go online basis through Amazon's Web services system. The deal, in private beta testing, means companies can use Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Amazon Elastic Compute Clo...

Technology Brings Shopping Ease to World Travelers

IBM announced last week that Hong Kong-based Duty Free Shops (DFS) plans to unveil a technology system for international shoppers in the DFS Galleria mall located at the international Naha airport in Okinawa, Japan. The new integrated, Linux-based solution will enable shoppers to move quickly and se...

Sun Lures Developers with Open-Source Solaris

Expectations are high that Sun Microsystems will make some significant announcements this month about an open-source version of its Solaris operating system. Reportedly, key pieces to the open-source project could be revealed as early as November 15 when the company has scheduled its quarterly SunNe...

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