Linux And Windows Square Off In Another Round Of TCO Testing, Sep 01, 2005

Two research reports sponsored by IBM argue that Linux is less expensive to buy and operate than Windows or Unix.

The state of Massachusetts has laid out a plan to switch all its workers away from Microsoft's Word, Excel and other desktop software applications, delivering what would be one of the most significant setbacks to the software company's battle against open-source software in its home market.

Companies find that their Linux server setups are less hardware-hungry than Windows-based systems, if the results of a recent survey are to be believed.

Some 16,000 students in the mountainous South Tyrol province of Bolzano in northern Italy will find 2,460 classroom computers upgraded from Windows to Linux when they return to school this month.

Unilever has dropped plans to move its global IT infrastructure onto a Linux platform by 2006, saying the cost benefits originally used to justify the risk of the migration are no longer there.

Neoware is shipping a ruggedized thin client designed to support industrial applications such as retail distribution centers, transportation hubs, and manufacturing shop floors.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski pledged Tuesday to do his part to make Oregon an attractive place for open-source software development, promising to raise the state's profile within the open-source movement and to raise the movement's profile inside Oregon.

Korea Post, Korea's postal service agency, Wednesday announced it will begin adopting the free, open-source operating system known as Linux to its desktop computers nationwide on Thursday, replacing the Windows operating system produced by U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp.

TimeSys, one of a handful of companies trying to make a business out of selling Linux for use in embedded computing devices such as elevators or set-top boxes, launched a subscription service Monday to try to lure do-it-yourself programmers.

In recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Microsoft for the first time acknowledges that Mozilla's browsers pose a competitive threat and the software giant also notes that security vulnerabilities leave it open to legal action.

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