Brazil Leans Away From Microsoft, Nov 17, 2003

If he is to make good on his promise to improve life for the tens of millions of Brazilians who live in dire poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knows that one key challenge is to bridge a massive technology gap. And if that means shunning Microsoft Corp. software in South America's largest country, then so be it.

Silva's top technology officer wants to transform the land of samba and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation where everyone from schoolchildren to government bureaucrats uses open-source software instead of costly Windows products.

Open source is growing up, but adulthood doesn't come easy. In a unique case, Bruce Perens, Hewlett-Packard's senior strategist for Linux and Open Source and former leader of Debian Linux, along with some of the top open source developers and executives have been debating what can be done with HP's proprietary Open Mail program, which is now close to retirement. Their answers may surprise you.

...the implication that software users need a company like Microsoft to provide innovation is just so much leftover spin from the DOJ trial. The fact is that a completely decentralized, noncorporate coalition delivered Linux as it stands today. Now that's innovation.

VA Linux Systems , the developer of software and products for the Linux computer operating system, on Tuesday lowered revenue and earnings expectations for its fiscal quarter ended January 27, 2001, citing overall economic weakness.

The Center for Internet Security members are working together to create a rating system for Solaris, Linux and Windows 2000

Industry sources say Linux Global Partners is poised to sign a letter of intent to buy Corel's Linux division for $5 million.

IBM is building for Shell a supercomputer-scale cluster of Linux computers, the largest such installation in the world, marking IBM's progress in moving the alternative system into mainstream commercial work.

The Norwegian software maker has made its first free browser available for download; will Linux, Mac OS, and BeOS versions be next?

Bruce Momjian, vice president of database development for Great Bridge LLC, has been named a featured speaker at the fall 2000 Linux Conference in Japan, a hotbed for open source technologies. Momjian will discuss the history of PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database system, which thousands of Japanese businesses already use as core infrastructure for their Web-based applications.

Key3Media Group, Inc. (NYSE:KME) announced today that LINUX Business Expo-Las Vegas has completed its first full year of existence with record growth

Red Hat has been chosen to be part of the Standard 100, the premiere stock index tracking the Internet Economy.

To give customers a choice of operating systems for its Bluetooth-enabled cable solutions, Texas Instruments Incorporated entered into an agreement with Jungo Software Technologies Inc. to add Jungo's Linux residential gateway software onto TI's broadband cable modems.

Neoware Systems has introduced NeoLinux 2.0, the latest version of its embedded Linux operating system, at Comdex Fall 2000, taking place this week in Las Vegas.

MandrakeSoft today announced that it is joining the Advisory Board of the GNOME Foundation, which aims to promote the GNOME graphical desktop.

MandrakeSoft S.A., publisher of the Linux-Mandrake operating system today announced the appointment of Jay Beale as Security Group Director.

Hoping to warm up the chilly Linux desktop market, Chilliware is launching next week the first of what it claims will be more than 100 desktop Linux apps in its pipeline.

Judging just by the number of lines of code, Sun's releasing of (most of) StarOffice under open source licensing is certainly the most massive project of its kind, ever.

The growing popularity of Linux is starting to take its toll-most notably in lengthy delays in kernel updates and releases.

StarOffice was sold to Sun Microsystems Inc. (the noted desktop-applications vendor). And today Sun is taking StarOffice into the domain of public source code, arming a group of self-described "rugged individualists" with the ability to create the cross-platform office suite of tomorrow.

Although Microsoft Corp.'s Windows and the Linux operating system have been racing on different tracks, an announcement made by several hardware companies Wednesday may put the two on a direct collision course.