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The Open Source Development Labs on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Technical Advisory Board. The group's initial goal is to improve communication among Linux stakeholders. The OSDL is a non-profit global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux-based operating systems i...

Open source technologies may not be taking over the world, but they are finding a niche and a large one at that. To be sure, companies large and small are becoming more comfortable deploying open source technologies on the server. Now, an an increasing number of firms are looking into the possibilit...

The Mozilla Foundation is preparing to launch yet another version of its open-source Web browser -- ahead of Internet Explorer 7. The Mozilla development team freezed the code for Firefox 2.0a1 last Thursday, according to the minutes of a March 14 Firefox 3 status meeting at the foundation's headqua...

Red Hat on Tuesday announced details of its integrated virtualization strategy. The timing is a preemptive strike against rival Novell, which comes only a week before that company's annual Brainshare conference. Red Hat plans to work with AMD, Intel, Network Appliance and XenSource to make virtualiz...

Taking aim at rival Microsoft, its Windows platform and its Office suite, Novell on Thursday unveiled SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 at CeBIT 2006 in Hanover, Germany. The new Linux desktop software suite features enhanced power management, integrated desktop search, graphical interfaces and numer...

How different would the IT world look if Sun and Hewlett-Packard joined forces in the operating system arena? Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has already imagined such a scenario. The executive is urging its bitter rival to unite its HP-Unix operating system with Sun's Solaris Unix operating syst...

Film animation giant DreamWorks is jumping on the service-oriented architecture bandwagon. The company on Wednesday announced it has implemented an HP solution based on SOA to simplify and consolidate key business operations. SOA is an approach to building and managing IT infrastructures using stand...

IBM on Monday announced a new open-source initiative meant to boost security and give consumers more control over their personal online identity information. Code-named "Project Higgins," the initiative is a collaborative effort by Big Blue, Novell and Parity Communications to develop security softw...

Windows has overcome Unix to claim the server sales crown for the first time, according to IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. The Windows server market continued to show solid growth, with factory revenues increasing by 4.7 percent year over year. Overall, Windows servers accounted for...

HP announced this week that it has signed a new open-source bundling license agreement with Novell to offer customers what it hopes will be simple, cost-effective Linux solutions on HP servers. The offering includes integrated open-source solutions, technical software and proactive service options t...

In the latest chapter of the Linux-versus-Microsoft total cost of ownership debate, Open Source Development Labs and Levanta this week released a new report to bolster the pro-Linux argument. A 17-page report based on an Enterprise Management Associates study called "Get the Truth on Linux Managemen...

Access subsidiary PalmSource on Tuesday announced its much-anticipated Linux-based operating system for handheld devices. The Access Linux Platform will bring full compatibility to devices with a Linux core. The ALP Software Developer Kit is scheduled for release to licensees by the end of 2006. The...

Windows and Linux are celebrating together. That's because new research predicts these competing platforms will become the dominant force in advanced mobile operating systems. As the demand for advanced devices accelerates, the battle among vendors will intensify, the Diffusion Group contends in "Ad...

Novell has unveiled what it calls "significant enhancements" to the Xgl graphics subsystem. Xgl is new core rendering technology for the Linux desktop that takes advantage of now widely available accelerated 3D rendering hardware. These enhancements are designed to let developers create richer graph...

The Google rumor mill is churning again. Google has reportedly confirmed it is using Ubuntu desktop Linux technology internally, but has not divulged its purpose. Ubuntu Linux is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with community and professional support. It is based on the Deb...