Linux suffers server sales slowdown, Aug 24, 2006

A slowdown in demand for Linux servers did not prevent overall global server sales inching up 0.6 per cent year over year to $12.3bn in the second quarter of 2006, new research has revealed.

The slander of title battle between SCO Group Inc and Novell Inc is to be split in two after the judge hearing their case agreed to a delay on proceedings related to Linux copyrights while they are referred to arbitration.

In a sign that Novell's new lease on life is garnering interest, some 200 people attended the Sydney leg of Novell's national Suse Linux Enterprise roadshow today.

A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project on Aug. 22 confirmed to DesktopLinux.com a report that 500 field tests of its low-cost, portable, Linux-powered computers will begin in September, with working devices set to begin rolling off the production line in November.

Open source software (OSS) has made big inroads with Oracle customers in recent years, but old concerns over security and technical support die hard, a new Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) member survey finds.

Devicescape has renamed its WiFi client software stack, and added support for a "one-button" secure WiFi configuration standard. The Devicescape Agent, formerly "Secure Wireless Client," offers a standards-based "Easy Access" feature aimed at making secure WiFi network configuration trivial for "service-enabled" consumer electronics devices such as network-ready cameras and music-players.

A Microsoft Shared Source license was submitted to the Open Source Initiative for official approval as an open-source license—but it wasn't Microsoft who submitted it.

CRN Test Center set out to locate good examples of free Linux distributions that still have some channel focus and offer robust features, along with upgrades to commercial support. The field was narrowed down to three familiar names in the Linux world, Ubuntu, OpenSuse and the new Freespire, the free version of Linspire.

If Microsoft really wants credit and credibility in the open source world, it needs to stop the squeamishness and show good faith. Why not let bygones be bygones and just let the whole Halloween documents issue drop? And why not submit a couple of Shared Source licenses for OSI approval, just to see what happens?

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