Red Hat, Microsoft Set Differences Aside To Compete With VMware, Feb 20, 2009

As things stood before Feb. 17, neither one of them would provide technical support for the other's operating system.

Educational institutions are consistently cited as one of the best places for open source to take root and flourish.

Novell has acquired the assets of Fortefi Ltd. and a perpetual source code license to ActivIdentity's single sign-on solution.

Mark Shuttleworth has announced plans for the new version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala.

2.6.28.7 has been released today.
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2.6.27.19 has been released today.
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The Washington Times has released the source code of its in-house tools and encourages collaboration. The source code is released under the permissive Apache License, version 2.0.

Customers assume that open source is free and that commercial open source is cheaper, but most companies aren't prepared to deal with the implications of having a lower-cost product. Even when you can clearly demonstrate value, you run into a scale issue sooner or later.

Version 3.0 of the ACCESS Linux Platform has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. The new version offers a richer user interface and compliance with LiMo.

When it comes to open source software migration, SA freight-forwarding company Megafreight has done more than most. Over the years the company has migrated its employees over to full Linux desktops and open source applications, including OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox.

Red Hat is taking an unusual course of action in its defence against IP Innovation's patent infringement claim.

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