Unison™ Extends Free Unified Communications to Ubuntu, Feb 25, 2009

Commercial release of Unison Server™ and Unison Desktop™ for Ubuntu will challenge Microsoft Exchange and unified communications franchises with more powerful Linux alternative.

Linspire, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a $199 Linux PC, after $100 mail-in rebate, through Sears.com

Novell today announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell is now available from Sun Microsystems on Sun Ultra Workstations.

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has scooped another two awards for Ubuntu, its leading-edge Linux distribution, 'Most User-Friendly Linux Distribution'/'Best Linux/Open Source Distribution' and Canonical picked up the 'Best combination of Community and Commerce' award.

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today criticized a plan in Massachusetts to force all state computer networks to move to an open source format.

Now in its third year, the annual Desktop Linux Summit has added an extra day, expanding its focus to include discussions of open source leaders Mozilla and OpenOffice.org.

Restaurant Operator Implements POS on Linux

SIVA Corporation(TM), the provider of a broad range of operations-focused technology options to the restaurant industry, announced today that Texas-based Jason's Deli has selected the iSIVA(TM) suite as the restaurant chain's new point-of-sale and back office. The successful fast-casual concept has set its IT strategy to support operations in a geographically dispersed environment.

On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint against The SCO Group. In this amended complaint IBM asserts that SCO has violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), and based on this violation has then violated certain IBM copyrights. IBM, not SCO, has brought the GPL into the legal controversy between the two companies. SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to supplant current U.S. copyright laws -- is a shaky foundation on which to build a legal case. By contrast, SCO continues to base its legal claims on well-settled United States contract laws and United States copyright laws.

Linux Networx announced today that Audi is using a Linux Networx Evolocity II(R) (E2) MAGMASOFT(R) cluster to simulate components for the new Audi Space Frame(R) for future car models. The E2 MAGMASOFT system has helped speed simulations from two weeks to two days - a 10x improvement compared to the RISC-based system Audi was using previously.