OpenMoko availavle on July 9th
Starting July 9th OpenMoko will be taking orders on the worlds first integrated Open Source mobile communications platform. Two configurations will be available, the Neo Base for $300 and the Neo…
What's Open Source Worth on Wall Street?
"The open source model, as Red Hat has proven, can be extremely profitable," says Kevin Harvey, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, and MySQL's chairman. "It's not a story of profits at first…
Desperately Seeking Xen
What's going on with Xen, the open source hypervisor that was supposed to give VMware a run for its money? I can't remember how many IT trade press articles, blog posts and vendor white papers I'…
Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results
Red Hat announced financial results for its fiscal quarter ended May 31, 2007. Red Hat's current fiscal year will end February 29, 2008.
Total revenue for the quarter was $118.9 million, an…
Red Hat CEO says he talked patents with Microsoft
Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said his company last year held talks with Microsoft Corp over a patent agreement that broke down before the software giant signed a deal with Red Hat rival…
Google Desktop now available for Linux
Just a few months after Google Desktop became available for the Mac, I'm happy to tell you it's now available for Linux users too. Google Desktop for Linux makes searching your computer as easy as…
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2 Released
Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10 has just been released for testing.
Pre-releases of Gutsy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who…
Sun Donates High Availability Cluster Code to the Open Source Community
Sun Microsystems announced it will release the Solaris Cluster source code through the HA (High Availability) Clusters community on the OpenSolaris site. Sun is releasing the Open High…
GPLv3 upgrade set for Friday
A controversial update to the GNU GPL (General Public License) is set to be released Friday by the Free Software Foundation, a representative of the organization said on Tuesday.
GPL…
BBC denies the Open Source community
The BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems and has been threatened with a complaint to the European Commission.
The accusations against the BBC have been…