IBM WebSphere application server growing nearly three times faster than JBOSS

A new research report found that WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition -- IBM's (NYSE: IBM) open source application server software based on Apache Geronimo -- is gaining share…

KDE e.V. Quarterly Report 2006Q3 Now Available

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for July to September 2006. Topics covered include the outcomes from the 2006 membership meeting, the status of the Technical Working Group's…

Microsoft-Novell Pact Is Already in Dispute

Less than three weeks after they reached an accord hailed as proof that rival software companies could work together, the chief executives of Novell and Microsoft are engaged in an unusual public…

German Lotto Company Plays it Safe with MySQL Cluster

Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen GmbH has standardized on MySQL® for all its appropriate future IT needs. The German lottery company based its selection on the success it has had using MySQL Cluster to…

Blizzard Unbans Linux World of Warcraft Players

World of Warcraft players using Cedega (the Linux-based Windows emulator) had their bans lifted after an investigation by Blizzard in cooperation with the Cedega development team revealed that the…

Open source databases '60 per cent cheaper'

Open source databases can save enterprises up to 60 per cent over proprietary products, according to data collected by Forrester Research.

Noel Yuhanna, a senior analyst at Forrester…

Playstation 3 Linux/Hacking/Homebrew Wiki

Having been on the market for only a short while, the Playstation 3 already runs open source Linux applications without mods. This site is an attempt to gather technical information about the…

Convert your multimedia archive to open standards.

Mp3, wma formats are copyrighted formats. Not everybody knows that they are breaking a bunch of rules and copyright patents by playing and redistributing fileformats like mp3 and wma. The big…

Open Country Debuts OCM Webmin Plus

Open Country Enhances Webmin System Administration Tool with Bacula® Network Backup Capability and Launches Community Site

BELMONT, CA – November 21, 2006 – Open Country, a next-generation…

Mandriva allies with IBPhoenix to support Firebird 2.0

Thanks to a collaboration between IBPhoenix and Mandriva, Mandriva Linux is now the distribution offering the best integrated support for Firebird 2.0.

Mandriva now offers the packages for…