Sun's McNealy: Some federal officials see open source as 'anti-capitalist', Feb 26, 2009

Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy wants President Barack Obama's administration do what the United Kingdom, Denmark and other countries have done: Encourage, as a matter of policy, open-source software adoption.

The modularity and licensing of Linux makes it well suited as the platform of choice for the burgeoning software appliance market, a Novell executive said at the VMworld conference in Cannes.

Linux runs on the first e-book reader released this year ... and on the second ... and the third.

Without much fanfare or self-congratulations, networking giant Cisco Systems has become one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and an active contributor to the broader open source community.

SourceForge, Inc. today announced financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended January 31, 2009.

Novell, Inc. today announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2009.

The release of version 1.5.1 for the Adobe AIR runtime environment fixes several bugs and introduces two new APIs.

Dell's profit sank drastically during the final quarter of 2008.

Greg Kurtzer has announced the release of Caos Linux 1.0.8, a high-performance distribution designed primarily for high performance computation (HPC), servers, and custom appliances.

For years, Microsoft has waved around the FUD stick concerning the 200+ patents it claimed to hold that Linux implementations supposedly infringed upon. However, when confronted, the company never seemed willing to name a single such patent. However, it looks like the company is starting to swing that stick with a bit more force.

Open source has some specific advantages for New Zealand and in these recessionary times.

VMware will release future versions of vCenter, its flagship virtualisation-management software, in Linux versions as well as for Windows.

Microsoft has gone and done it, they've filed suit in U.S. District Court claiming Linux violates their patents.

It may be open source, but Linux has frequently required support from corporate support, including the proprietary software market.

The number of open source projects targeting mobile platforms is rising sharply, according to Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software.

With Windows 7 looking good and ready to release, Ubuntu begins its desktop redesign.

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