Red Hat boosts open source at new CUNY lab, national campus tour
Red Hat Inc. is forging open source inroads in education these days. For starters, the Raleigh, N.C.-based company teamed up with Intel Corp. to help equip the new New York City Open Source Solutions...
View ArticleNovell pledges to fix ZenWorks snafu
Sometimes stories about customer problems have happy endings. One day after publication, the Novell ZenWorks problem that I blogged about Sept. 17 appears to be on its way to resolution. Not that...
View ArticleFedora gets mixed review in ‘girlfriend test’
Everyone agrees that the Linux desktop has a lot of work ahead to transform itself from a techie obsession to the intuitive, user-friendly desktop of a Macintosh or Windows machine. Even Mark...
View Article‘Scientific’ Red Hat to crunch numbers of Hadron Collider
According to an article in Linux Today, CERN’s huge Large Hadron Collider, the largest atom smasher in the world, runs on a customized version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that is modified for...
View Article‘Open source cheaper’ story sparks debate
A SearchEnterpriseLinux reader from Queensland, Australia, wrote that my recent article asking whether open source is really cheaper than proprietary software missed the point. “Most users are locked...
View ArticleLinux Foundation caves to pressure, closes summit to press
The Linux Foundation’s job is promote the use of Linux-based open source software, whose code is freely available for anyone to examine, modify and distribute as they please. Yet the foundation’s first...
View ArticleNovell promotes SLES in 11-city Linux tour
Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. wrapped up a whirlwind three-week U.S. tour promoting SUSE Linux Enterprise yesterday with a packed presentation at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, a relatively short...
View ArticleAmerican Idol vs. Britney: Why open source will prevail, Red Hat says
Red Hat CEO and supersalesman Jim Whitehurst sure knows how to keep things simple. In yet another global tour pitching Red Hat, Whitehurst compared the open source development model to American Idol,...
View ArticleCollective Linux development model will be tough to beat, report says
The humble penguin is mascot of quite a treasure. According to an updated Linux Foundation study, to build from scratch today, the Linux kernel would cost $1.4 billion; a typical Linux distro, $1.2...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s embrace of open source could signal turnaround
Microsoft used last week’s ApacheCon as a platform to reach out to the open source community in a public way. In his keynote last Friday, Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s senior director of platform strategy,...
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