OrangeHRM reaches 50,000 downloads and becomes available in Russian, Spanish and Danish languages
OrangeHRM announced it has reached more than 50,000 cumulative downloads since February 2006, when the first version of the Open Source Human Resource Management System was released to SourceForge…
Free Software's Anti-Steve
We now know what happens when big hairy software coders work with big hairy lawyers. The result, understandably, is anything but slick. Meet GPLv3, the free software movement's latest legal tool…
Is a Linux Civil War in the Making?
Microsoft's partnership with Novell got a lot of people in the open-source community fired up. Since then, Microsoft's Linux deals with Linspire and Xandros have just thrown gasoline on the fire.…
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…