The war is over and Linux won, Nov 10, 2006

A new IBM-sponsored study on Linux sent me by Joe McKendrick, our SOA expert, goes a long way toward explaining the big Oracle and Microsoft moves regarding Linux.

The Mono project announced the release of version 1.2 of Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net framework, on Thursday.

Faced with a choice between adding more HP-UX and Solaris boxes, or moving to Intel hardware with Linux, CitiStreet chose the latter. Today the company is enjoying enhanced stability and security, and drastically lower costs.

Looking for a cheap PC this holiday season? Good luck trying to find one with anything but Microsoft's Windows on it.

Despite such concrete turns in the Linux market, Oracle's support plan continues to be more bluster than muster, according to Mark Shuttleworth, whose company Canonical oversees Ubuntu Linux.

Red Hat insists it remains unperturbed by the recent movements from Oracle and Microsoft, which could potentially place the leading Linux seller under increased competitive pressure.

NVIDIA has officially released a Linux driver that supports a compatible version of the AIGLX instruction set.

Oracle, with its recent claims to be able to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux under the name Unbreakable Linux better than Red Hat does, has a hard road ahead of it. Behind Red Hat's support network is a large, well-trained organization.

A second reprogrammable open Linux handset has been unveiled, only months after Trolltech introduced its Linux-based Greenphone to the developer community.

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