Barclays says no to Firefox, Jan 05, 2008

A reader attempting to log into a Barclays web site here found himself with a little bit of a problem.

Who in the hell is Asustek, and why does Microsoft hate them more than any other company in the industry? Why does Apple, Dell and Palm Computing hate them?

Open source guru Stormy Peters talks about the global initiative to count how much open source software is used by enterprise, and her upcoming keynote at Melbourne’s Linux Conference

Linux has kept a big chunk of the server business out of Microsoft’s hands. But in 2008, Linux will hurt Microsoft on the desktop. Here’s how.

I wasn't very nice to Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO, when I heard the news that he was replacing Matthew Szulik. My reasoning? Matthew Szulik had done so much for Red Hat and besides, what could a Delta Air Lines COO have to teach about open source?

Red Hat Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst said Friday -- his fourth day on the job -- that he's angling for a showdown with two tech titans in what he describes as a struggle to protect information sharing in software development.

Officials in New York are nearing decision-making time about which XML-based office document format, ODF or OOXML, that state will use across the IT systems of its agencies as the debate over a universal file format continues.

It's a pity, really. Caldera and SCO were both grand companies, but their legacy was squandered on anti-Linux lawsuits that, in the end, came to nothing but tens of millions of wasted dollars.

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