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Mozilla's open source Firefox browser continues to creep up on Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Firefox's share of the global browser market grew to 12.93 percent in July, according to a new report. Although that number is still small, compared to the whopping 83.05 percent enjoyed by IE, Firefox's to...

Novell is set to boost Linux training for universities with a week-long "boot camp" for Linux educators and a series of three Suse Linux Enterprise textbooks -- created with Thomson Course Technology -- that cover Linux use, development and advanced administration. The new Linux courseware, to be in...

In an attempt to push ahead in the competitive server market, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled three high-end products for use in data centers as part of its x86 server platform. Included in the announcement are a 16-way x64 server, a hybrid data server and a blade platform. The three new x64 se...

The European Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday to discuss the future of patent policy for the European Union. How patents are awarded continues to be a critical issue of debate in Europe. The European Patent Office has warned that innovation is at risk if national governments contin...

Novell is evangelizing its Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, but the company is not looking for an all-out war with software giant Microsoft. Rather, it is looking to find its niche on the business user's desktop. Novell has already gained Linux desktop momentum with transaction and fixed-function a...

For the first time, IBM is making Lotus Notes available for Linux. The initial offering supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 3. The company will add a Notes client for Novell Suse Linux Desktop within three months. These are the first Linux-based business applications from IBM. Of course, IBM...

Anxious Firefox users may have to wait a few more days for the official early beta release of Firefox 2.0, Alex Guerra, a spokesperson for the Mozilla Foundation, told LinuxInsider, but the public already is getting a taste of what's to come. The browser's debut was scheduled for release on Tuesday ...

Software development toolmaker Trolltech, which provides its Qt and Qtopia development software for embedded, mobile and Linux systems developers, completed its initial public offering and earned a listing on Norway's Oslo Stock Exchange this week. "We wanted to have bigger financial muscle," Trollt...

A district court judge has dismissed the majority of the claims the SCO Group filed against IBM in 2003, which purported that IBM had committed copyright infringement by contributing Unix code to the Linux operating system. Last year, IBM asked the court to limit the scope of SCO's claims on the gro...

Linux leader Red Hat has been named in a patent infringement lawsuit in Texas in connection with its recently acquired JBoss Hibernate 3.0 technology. In the lawsuit, Delaware-based FireStar Software claims the now Red Hat-owned object/relational persistence and query service product infringes on a ...

The Eclipse Foundation this week unveiled a grouped, open source software release dubbed "Callisto" that it considers a shining example of open source software development for the enterprise. The foundation's biggest feat with respect to the release -- a collection of 7 million lines of code contrib...

Florian Mueller is at it once again. The founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign that led to the European Union's landslide vote against a proposal for a software patent directive is ready for the next battle. The same forces that supported the software patent directive he successfully defeate...

VA Software announced last week the availability of a free, full-feature version of its collaborative software development platform, SourceForge Enterprise Edition. The download includes a perpetual, no-cost license for 15 users. Built on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition J2EE platform, SFEE provides de...

Longtime Linux distribution vendor Xandros is not touting the latest Linux kernel functionality, KDE 3.42 user interface, or other cutting edge open source gems of the new version of its desktop operating system. Instead, Xandros has dubbed version 4.0 of its OS the "Digital Lifestyle Linux Desktop,...

Sun Microsystems will continue its ongoing investment in open source and the AJAX application model by joining the OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo Foundation, the company said. Sun intends to drive open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies through its part...