Open Solutions Alliance to Congregate at OSCON
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, today announced it is hosting the…
How Microsoft conquered China
Or is it the other way around? Fortune's David Kirkpatrick goes on the road to Beijing with Bill Gates, who threw his business model out the window.
Mr. Bill Gates! Mr. Bill Gates!" a young…
Mandriva advances into Korea, the IT hub of Asia
Mandriva Korea (MetaNav) begins operations in order to offer Mandriva Linux solutions to organizations and people all over South Korea and the East Asia area.
Recent studies show that about…
Open Solutions Alliance Announces Customer Forum Series
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, today announced its worldwide Customer…
GPLv3 attracts 116 projects in first week
According to Palamida, GPL and LGPL conversions are up to 116 as of Monday, July 9th, 2007.
TurboLinux joins XML - ODF Translator Project
Customers in China and Japan will soon have more choice in the document formats they use as a result of a an expansion of the Open XML - ODF translator project. Microsoft Corp. and Turbolinux Inc…
Intel invests in VMware
VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for virtualization solutions today announced that Intel Corporation, through its global investment arm, Intel Capital has agreed to become an investor…
Canonical Releases Storm as Open Source
Canonical Ltd today announced the release of Storm, a generic open source object relational mapper (ORM) for Python. Storm is designed to support communication with multiple databases…
Novell statement on Microsoft’s GPLv3 position
On Friday, June 29, 2007, the Free Software Foundation released the final version of the new GNU Public License, GPLv3. Given the terms of GPLv3, we re-affirm Novell’s ability to include…
Can Linux Adoption Ever be Accurately Gauged?
Determining usage and growth of Free software has always been a challenge. For over a decade, arguments have been held – sometimes flamewars – whose central point was the usage level of software…