Red Hat customers targeted by Oracle, Jul 10, 2006

Oracle is looking at taking business away from Linux distributor Red Hat by offering support for its product, its CEO declared last month.

The browser wars are heating up, as the first beta of Firefox 2.0 is due on Tuesday July 11th, and Internet Explorer version 7.0 is now on it's third beta release.

Microsoft is currently fighting a virtual game of king of the hill with OS competitors attempting to claw their way to the high ground.

Hewlett-Packard will ensure that the operating system works on several of its notebook models by year-end.

Based on VAR demand, Bell Microproducts has signed a deal to become a certified distributor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

A Toronto high school teacher who had been running a Linux lab for five years was forced to close it down last week by the school’s administration following the implementation of a Microsoft-based, school board-wide computing initiative

Tripod Data System (TDS) has updated its Recon series of rugged handheld computers. The new Recon-X series PDAs feature twice as much Flash memory (up to 256 MB) as the original, along with optional built-in Bluetooth and 802.11g WiFi. A Linux-based version will begin beta testing next week, and ship in July or early August.

IBM plans to unveil this week a version of its Lotus Notes desktop collaboration software for Linux.

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