For Oxfam volunteer-driven free software makes sense, Mar 09, 2006

In a carefully-planned operation that took more than a year to complete the British charity Oxfam switched three thousand users from using its proprietary collaboration platform to one which is closer to their mission: volunteer-created Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).

The SCO Group, the Unix and wireless software company best known for its seemingly endless Linux and IBM litigation, reported greater then ever losses for its fiscal first quarter, which ended January 31.

Despite some difficulties with the root account, Emmett finds the simplicity and true openness of this Linux distro very appealing.

IBM is upgrading a bunch of workers to Red Hat Linux, but the company is denying reports that it plans to totally replace Windows on its desktops.

In what is believed to be the first open source government contract in Australia of its kind, Novell has signed a deal with the NSW Department of Commerce to become an approved supplier of Open Source software and solutions under the Open Source (Linux) Enterprise Software and Services agreement 2316.

Linux users who live in Toronto now have a special place to gather, get online, and sip fancy coffee drinks. It's not Starbucks, it's the linuxcaffe.

Stonebridge Bank is a small, relatively young company with seven years under its belt and a staff of 60 employees. But that didn't stop the number of servers at this West Chester, Penn.-based bank from spiraling out of control.

Trying to convince schools that open source software won't be a management headache is proving an uphill struggle

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