Enterprise

Linux leader Red Hat has unveiled an aggressive effort to expand its reach in the telecommunications industry, leveraging its acquired JBoss middleware and open source technology in the space and joining a European community project aimed at fostering an open service telecom infrastructure. Red Hat ...

Novell is bundling more and more software with its Suse Linux distribution, this week announcing a partnership with IBM that puts Big Blue's proprietary WebSphere and DB2-Express C database technologies alongside open source Suse Linux. The Integrated Stack for Suse Linux Enterprise will combine Lin...

Open source database vendor MySQL released new functionality and services under an "enterprise" moniker, reflecting the Swedish company's aggressive strategy for acquiring bigger and better customers. Taken together, all of the open source databases -- including MySQL, Ingres and PostgreSQL -- occup...

Microsoft has opened its virtualization technology. The software giant made its Virtual Hard Disk virtualization specification available under its own Open Specification Promise (OSP) with the aim of encouraging development and increasing interoperability. Looking to ensure its piece of the virtual...

Massachusetts' embrace of open technology, open standards and open source software was simply routine strategic planning, the way Tim Vaverchack tells it. However, the state's stance to strongly consider alternatives to proprietary solutions -- such as the Open Document Format -- has fueled one of t...

Open source software is a known resource among government IT pros, who are continually asked to do more with less, but beyond the flexibility and freedom from licensing fees, those who know how to leverage IT to its fullest are also using the collaboration aspect of open source software to succeed.

Baynote, a maker of content guidance software for Web-based businesses, on Monday unveiled Baynote.org, a community-based Web site designed to encourage the adoption of business-ready open source search. Visitors to the site can take advantage of open source search for their business Web site, and m...

Open source may be experiencing a somewhat slow uptake in government offices lately because the traditional "request for proposal" process -- required and used by governments when spending tax dollars on software and other technology resources -- often excludes open source options. Even worse, gover...

The programming tool Ajax has proven integral to the latest popular Internet destinations and is winning the favor of corporate supporters, including IBM and Google, as well as developers. However, there are some security issues that may accompany this cutting-edge technology tool. Among them are th...

With its mix of capability and flexibility, often at a lower cost, Linux continues its aggressive growth in the enterprise server market, according to new research. A survey of nearly 400 IT developers and professionals indicates that use of Linux in at least some servers is still on the rise, repor...

Google's new Code Search, a developer tool that scours the Internet for software code, is stirring up buzz over what some see as its potential for misuse by computer attackers. Code Search is meant to optimize searches for specific software codes, scripts, licenses and related information. However, ...

Most fans of Linux know that while the open source operating system has proven its might in corporate computer servers, it has languished on the desktop, where Microsoft maintains its monopoly. While companies such as Linspire, Xandros and others try to make Linux more appealing on the desktop, Ubun...

SiCortex, which bills itself as the first company to engineer a cluster computer from the silicon up, announced that it has closed a US$21 million round of funding, led by Chevron Technology Ventures through its venture capital arm, CTTV Investments. Boston, Mass.-based SiCortex, which is gearing up...

Agilysys and Red Hat announced Thursday that they have signed an enterprise reseller agreement to deliver Red Hat open source solutions to Agilysys customers. The agreement authorizes Agilysys Enterprise Solutions Group as a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, and will enable the two organizations to...

The SCO Group on Thursday announced the availability of HipCheck, the latest offering from the company's Me Inc. mobile services division. HipCheck is a mobile administration solution designed to monitor and manage Unix and Windows systems through Windows Mobile phones. The application combines syst...