Travelocity's parent company hails Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Aug 21, 2008

Sabre Holdings Corp., the $3 billion online network best known for Travelocity, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the corporate standard for its global ticketing and airline services businesses and will implement RHEL 5 in all future acquisitions.

Donald Becker, an MIT grad who in the 1990s pioneered high-performance computing (HPC) with commodity components, returned to his alma mater recently to update the Boston Linux & Unix User Group (BLU) on the state of HPC and his work to make Linux clusters more powerful, more user-friendly and easier to manage

After nearly a decade of active involvement in open source, IBM's commitment to Linux is broad and deep, said Inna Kuznetsova, the director of IBM Linux strategy. This vision of IBM's rapport with Linux is shared by most, but not all, IBM observers.

The fourth annual Red Hat Summit is expected to draw as many as 1,200 customers and vendors -- about 15% more than last year -- to Boston next week. The convention takes place June 18 through June 20 at the Hynes Convention Center.

The large magazine publisher Bonnier Corp. switched its database operating system from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 to Oracle Enterprise Linux to get better support, and to boot it saved money.

What are Red Hat, Novell and Canonical going to have to do in 2008 to in order to dominate the desktop and server Linux market?

When Solaris Containers for Linux Applications is released into the source code with Update 4 on Aug. 27, Sun customers will be able to run unmodified Linux binaries made for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS.

Oracle's Unbreakable Linux is one less expensive alternative to Red Hat Linux, but there are some users within the Linux community who prescribe a different route entirely: CentOS.

IT managers running Red Hat Linux should think carefully before making the switch to Unbreakable Linux, the new Linux distribution that Oracle Corp. announced last month.

In a recent interview with SearchOpenSource.com News Writer Jack Loftus, Roberts spoke about why the open source model is changing the way software is being developed and what it's like working with Microsoft's open source liaison Bill Hilf.

Desktop sales played a big role in Hewlett-Packard's recent news-making profit gains. In the future, Linux will figure prominently in HP desktops, says Christine Martino, vice president of HP's Open Source and Linux Organization. She's not predicting an overthrow of Windows desktops anytime soon, though.

If the big names in Linux and open source are the shakers, then the movers are the unknown people in the trenches -- the IT shops. It's IT managers who convinced their companies to use Linux, made it work and now put open source software in the corporate IT fast lane.

...companies can control their own destinies more finely by using Linux. When you use Windows, you get whatever version of Windows was shipping when you bought the PC.

Jeff Squyres had used Linux to quell chaos in a high-performance computing lab, so he had no qualms about wielding that weapon again in his volunteer IT job.

On the heels of a Versora survey conducted earlier this month about Window-to-Linux migrations, Versora and partner Win4Lin have struck while the migration is hot with new products and services aimed at wresting away customers from the folks in Redmond.

In this interview, Terpstra shoots down some pernicious misunderstandings about Linux and open source and explains how IT organizations often end up shunning their IT planning duties. Terpstra also explains why he believes users and IT pros could lose their jobs by sticking with familiar applications.

The battle between Linux and Windows for server-side dominance is continuing to play out in data centers worldwide.

Adoption of Linux on the desktop may begin in basements and bedrooms throughout the world, and gradually trickle up to large enterprises, says Matt Asay, a Novell Inc. technology evangelist and one of the people behind that company's Linux and open source strategy.

Linux is an enterprise player, and customer demand will force Microsoft to make its products interoperate with Linux, says Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), an organization that fosters the development and adoption of Linux.

The buzz with end users this week is that Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) chose wisely when it rejected an allegedly independent comparison of Linux and Windows.