Manufacturers go for RFID, but not Linux, Apr 28, 2005

... all too often vendors have been trying to push such technology on their novelty or 'Linux for Linux' sake', rather than selling it on the business benefits.

Turbolinux, a global leader of Linux-based solutions, today announced the signing of an agreement with The Industrial Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), one of the largest, most prestigious banking institutions in China.

Novell today announced a partnership with a leading Chinese organization to help expand and promote Linux adoption in China.

Red Hat India, a provider of open source solutions has launched a Tamil version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system in the city [Chennai] today.

The study also found that Linux is receiving increasing interest from businesses. Although penetration is still at a low level, it is gradually being seen as a more credible alternative.

Novell has hired Jeremy Allison, one of the core programmers behind a widely used open-source project called Samba.

Venture capitalists are again embracing open-source technology companies.

Shortly after announcing the merger of Mandrakesoft and Conectiva into Mandriva, the newly combined company released a transitional "limited edition" GNU/Linux distribution to bridge the gap between the two parent distributions. Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 may look a little different, but it's the same great Mandrakelinux desktop distribution that you're used to.

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