SCO Begs Novell Court to Stay Novell's PSJ/PI Motion Until IBM is Decided
Heavens. End game is turning out to be fun. SCO now begs the court to postpone its bankruptcy by... no, wait, they didn't say that. They ask for a stay on the Novell motion for partial summary…
NEC streamlines open source software
Japanese computer giant NEC will attempt to promote the use of open source software on its servers with a new testing and certification regime, it was announced today.
The $41bn a year…
Mandriva Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Linbox
Mandriva announced today that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Linbox FAS
("Linbox"). The agreement remains subject to shareholders approval.
Linbox was founded as Free and…
Vista gets Cute (Qt)
Qt (pronounced Cute) is perhaps best known as the application development framework behind the open source KDE Linux desktop. It's now ready to build applications for the competing GNOME Linux…
Linux, PDAs and consumer goods drive IT growth
Internet-related investments in Linux servers, PDAs, digital storage and new portable consumer products will be the highest growth areas in the global IT market in the next year, according to the…
Trolltech Brings Style Sheets to Desktop Applications with Qt 4.2
Trolltech, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use, today released Qt 4.2, the new version of the company's popular framework for high performance cross-platform…
Fonality Acquires Trixbox, World's Largest Asterisk Based Community
Fonality, the leader in IP telephony systems for small and medium businesses and the world's largest commercial Asterisk based deployment, today announced it has acquired trixbox, the world's…
Library system migrates from Linux -- to more Linux
The six branches of the Howard County Library system in Maryland provide 300 computers to their clients. This week, every computer has been upgraded from a "homegrown" Linux kernel, to Groovix, an…
Red Hat hires ex-IBM channel exec
Red Hat has hired Mark Enzweiler, a Lenovo executive who spent 25 years at IBM, to be its vice president of North American channel sales, the Linux seller said Wednesday. Channel sales are…
Skype for Linux Released
Skype for Linux has just reach gold status and been released to the public today. Skype for Linux 1.3.0.53 has a ton of bug fixes, you are encouraged to switch to this final release from beta.…