Red Hat Chairman Sells $3.4M Shares of Stock, Apr 07, 2008

Red Hat Chairman Matthew Szulik last week sold more than $3.4 million worth of shares he owned in the Linux software developer and services provider.

In a press release issued late last month analyst heavyweight Gartner made a series of technology predictions for the coming years. Things such as software as a service and Apple gaining significant ground by 2011 may not be completely unexpected.

We already knew that Asus was going to start selling their Eee PC subnotebook computer with Windows XP pre-installed, but we didn't know how much the Microsoft tax was going to be. As it turns, it's zero. Hopping on over to the Best Buy website, you'll find that the 4GB Eee PC with Windows XP is the same price as its Linux counterpart.

Last Quarter Was the Single Best Quarter in History for Open Source Companies Raising Venture Capital

The last quarter was the single best quarter in history for open source companies raising venture capital according to the 451 Group.

Noah Broadwater, vice president of information services at Sesame Street Workshop, likes using open-source virtualization tools for several good reasons -- starting with green ones that have nothing to do with Oscar the Grouch.

Users will not have to choose between thickness and price when having to choose an ultraportable notebook, Intel has claimed during a presentation at its own Developer Forum.

To some people, the increasing number of Linux distributions serves as a disadvante when it comes to attracting new users. To Christopher Smart, it's a plus point - the way he puts it, if he had not been able to roll his own, he never would have achieved the level of understanding of Linux he has today.

In the beginning...

One of the most significant moments in the history of the modern software industry took place in 1998 when Netscape announced plans to release the source code of its browser under a license that would freely permit modification and redistribution. That pivotal event represents the point at which software freedom extended its reach beyond the enthusiast community and began its ascent into the mainstream.

How'd you like to try out the ASUS Eee without paying a dime, sort of? ASUS just posted the software development kit for its groundbreaking Linux-powered notebook on SourceForge, along with a fully functional system image of the Eee's Xandros OS. It's not quite the same experience as the machine itself, but for those itching to develop for it, this is a way to get a jump-start on that without needing the hardware itself.

A report from the Linux Foundation details individual kernel contributions and suggests enterprise use is expanding.

Ever since I wrote "It's Time to Get Over Microsoft," people have demanded in blogs and emails how I could ignore the obvious threat that Microsoft represents to free software. Usually, I ask them to read the article more carefully, and note that it suggests that free software has grown strong enough to take care of itself.

COMMERCIAL Linux distributor Red Hat says it has released all of the source code to the Red Hat Certificate System, its security framework for managing network user identities and transactions.

For two large school districts – in Canada and the U.S. – Linux and other open source software is the plat du jour on the education menu.

The free Linux operating system handles big tasks such as running supercomputers and ATMs. Now, Linux has a chance to loosen Microsoft Corp.'s hold on computing's most visible domain — mainstream PCs — because of the rise of innovative, inexpensive machines.

In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service.

The Linux Foundation has found that the number of developers putting work into the Linux kernel is growing fast, tripling over the past three years. Over that period, the number of individual contributors has doubled. Linux is being used more often as the firmware found in consumer electronics, and now more than 70 percent of all kernel development is done by paid professionals.

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