Oil firm standardises on Linux OS, Apr 12, 2005

Statoil, Norway's largest oil company, has made a 50% cost saving by migrating from proprietary Unix operating systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

"The rate of adoption of the Linux operating system among enterprises worldwide--especially among government and financial services organizations--is increasing," Eugene Lee, vice president of marketing for Adobe's Intelligent Documents group, said in a statement.

Mandrakesoft, hoping to serve the dual purposes of repositioning itself in the Linux market and throwing the monkey of its back in a trademark infringement battle with Hearst Publishing, announced last week that it has changed its name to Mandriva.

Open source proponent Novell Australia is tempting resellers with a deal registration program that gives them an extra 15 percent margin if they win new business for the vendor.

Wincor Nixdorf AG, a supplier of IT systems for the banking and retail sectors, will install the open source Linux operating system in its check-out systems under an agreement announced Monday with Novell Inc.

Siebel, Microsoft and Salesforce.com may get serious competition from open-source enterprise software systems, say Linux advocates bNitro.com and SourceForge.net. They envision a highly adaptive software application that any business could download from the Internet for free.

Just in the last week, the OSI and CA came up with different ideas on how to reform open-source licensing. If you look closely though you'll see their plans are incompatible and that we're in for major open-source licensing fights.

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