Red Hat shares surge after earnings, Dec 20, 2003

Software maker Red Hat's shares rose 22.5 percent Friday after the company met its third-quarter earnings target with stronger-than-expected sales of software subscriptions that are expected to get even stronger in the fourth quarter.

The move at Innogy and Verano indicates not only the growing popularity of Linux but also that much of its growth is likely to come at the expense of Unix, the proprietary operating system after which open-source Linux is modeled.

The East Coast LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, a trade show for developers and users of the increasingly popular Linux computer operating system, will be held for the first time at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in the Back Bay in February 2005. The show has been held at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center since its inception in 1999, but its organizers said they were told they won't be able to return in 2005.

Free software developed to care for US Vietnam War vets could help provide better healthcare in poor countries.

A group of open source evangelists are looking to take the program called Vista beyond the borders of the US.

They say hospitals could save money by using the free software, as well as potentially saving patients' lives.

Open source is a way of creating software that allows others to see the core of a program so that they can freely modify and adapt it.

AlwaysOn: Speaking of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer recently admitted that the thing that keeps him up at night is Linux.

Adkins: That’s not surprising. I think the Microsoft model will be under continued pressure, given that there are viable alternatives. And Linux is a very viable alternative. It has continued to mature in its capabilities and how it participates end-to-end in the IT infrastructure. A lot of it started off as applications on the end of the network, like firewalls. Then it started to move into the application tier, and now we’re beginning to see Linux running heavy transactional-based applications. So it continues to mature.

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