Look Out, Windows: It's the Next SuSE Linux Desktop, Mar 22, 2005

At its annual BrainShare tradeshow Monday, Novell showed off the next edition of its enthusiast Linux desktop, SuSE Linux Professional 9.3, to a few partners here.

Now there is a case in Michigan, which just settled, where the GPL not only stood its ground, it came off victorious, and this time it was very much a part of the case.

When Bill Robertson decided last year to switch 450 workers and 100 desktops at De Bortoli Wines to the open source Firefox web browser, he had the company's future in mind.

Novell has packaged several Linux-based products into a suite geared for small business, Chief Executive Jack Messman said Monday.

Mandrakesoft on Monday announced it will release a transitional Linux product as it absorbs technology from Conectiva, a Brazilian Linux company it acquired in February.

But companies that issue anti-Linux statements like this often end up embracing Linux before long. That's why I want to extend a welcoming hand to EDS instead of getting upset over that egregious statement.

Far-east Linux distributor Turbolinux is looking to target the Indian market after achieving profitability in Japan and China.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that it now hosts an officially recognized forum for Ubuntu Linux, increasing its total number of participating distributions to twenty three. With the addition of Ubuntu, LQ now has participation from four of the five most popular distributions, as ranked by Distrowatch.

Redmond is currently touting the roll-out by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) of Microsoft's server and back-end technology in its e-commerce driven online portal as a win over Linux, the platform on which the site originally ran.

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