Great wide open (source), Mar 11, 2003

Co-founder and director of sales for Chelsea’s Open-PC, Lim designs, integrates and sells desktops, laptops, video games and servers with pre-loaded Linux, offering the open source choices of Red Hat, Mandrake, Lycoris or Suse. Lim is targeting the little guys with not a lot of resources.

A situation he claims he can fix by getting DOR onto open source/Linux for about $200 a user, about a third of Microsoft’s $500 to $600.

Essentially, the Linux seller is shifting its sales emphasis toward an indirect model in which business partners take a share of revenue in exchange for bringing SuSE new business. In particular, SuSE will aim to piggyback on partner IBM's support for Linux throughout its entire server line, Dyroff said.

In eWeek Labs' tests of GNOME 2.2, we found that with the addition of details such as application launch notification and improved font handling, GNOME has grown thicker with features and more polished while maintaining the simplicity for which many value it.

Webmaster's note: A little history. Shortly after Microsoft invested in Corel, they sold off their Linux division

Microsoft is preparing to sell its stake in struggling Canadian software maker Corel at a loss of more than $100 million.

Red Hat is renaming its Advanced Server product Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and introducing an Enterprise Linux ES version for lower-end servers that have one or two processors, said Mark De Visser, vice president of marketing for the Raleigh, N.C.-based company.

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