China's Red Flag joins enterprise Linux consortium, Jan 11, 2005

Chinese Linux developer Red Flag Software has joined Open Source Development Labs, (OSDL) a nonprofit industry consortium that promotes the use of Linux in the enterprise, the companies said Monday.

Novell Inc. last week said it will soon detail plans to include server virtualization technology in its SUSE Linux operating system. Red Hat Inc. intends to do the same thing with its Linux distribution, and a leading contender for both vendors may be an open-source virtualization technology called Xen.

The deal in which IBM has effectively ceded its notebook and desktop PC business to Chinese maker Lenovo was given official US government approval here today.

MasterCard has awarded a quality assurance certification to a PIN-entry pad and smart-chip terminal based on embedded Linux. The certification was granted to Trintech's Smart 5000 terminal, a hybrid device that can authorize transactions based on smart chips or PIN (personal identification number) entry.

Enrico Pesatori knows a thing or two about business strategy. He has been admired for his self-sustaining executive track record at Digital Equipment, Compaq and BlueArc. Now, as chairman and CEO of Penguin Computing, he's out to make the company a leader in high-performance computing servers, systems and cluster-management software.

IBM has decided to let open-source developers use 500 software patents without fear of an infringement lawsuit, a new step in its encouragement of the collaborative programming philosophy.

The Mozilla e-mail client has all of the stuff an experienced user needs and is more secure than Outlook, but it doesn't have the right stuff for most enterprises

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