JSW Steel Deploys Oracle On Linux, Jul 02, 2005

JSW Steel has implemented Oracle E-Business Suite on Red Hat Linux on IBM eServer X 365 Xeon MP and IBM eServer X 445 Xeon MP.

Speaking about Open Source for enterprises, Chandrashekhar said, "We would like all operating systems to run and be available on our platform. While Linux is going good at the back end, at the client side, it is going nowhere."

Red Hat, a provider of Open Source solutions to the enterprise, announced today, at the Red Hat Summit, plans to release Red Hat Directory Server.

In response to the recent Rob Enderele interview , Con Zymaris CEO of Cybersource Pty. Ltd. clears the air on the much-debated, highly publicised 'Microsoft vs Linux' war in an exclusive with CXOtoday.com

Obstacles such as financial constraints, very minimum PC resources, did not in any way deter the grit of Kerala-based, 15-year old Sarath Lakshman from developing SLYNUX- a highly user-friendly GNU/Linux operating system designed for beginners

While reams of newsprint and virtual space have been dedicated deliberating the pros and cons of both Microsoft and Linux, CXOtoday has gone a step further and attempted to probe a bit deeper for a different perspective while at the same time examining the role of the technology media in fueling this 'debate'.

Red Hat has finally announced the much awaited, global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 (RHEL v.4), which the Linux player claims can apparently eliminate the need for Solaris in the enterprise segment.

Red Hat and Tally will be working jointly to make Tally, a popular accounting software package available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, according to an announcement made by Red Hat today.

Did you ever wish that you could track the location of a mobile user? Well, this could very well be a reality largely thanks to the efforts of three young Mumbai-based IITians, who have developed a Linux-based software application that tracks the location of mobile phones.

iDEFENSE has discovered a flaw in Xpdf, an open-source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files included in most Linux distros.

Struggling with its HP-UX business, Hewlett Packard is now eyeing the Linux space with its 'Linux for the Real World' strategy showcased at the Linux Bangalore/2004 event.

In an effort to further tap a growing interest in Linux down south, Open Source vendor Red Hat announced yesterday the opening of its sales and support office in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Firefox 1.0- Mozilla Foundation's first product aimed at users looking for an alternate browser, has met with an overwhelming response from users worldwide. This heavy rush has resulted in performance issues for the Mozilla site.

The Indian education sector will soon be provided with Linux-based solutions, thanks to the partnership between Intel India and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

Red Hat has released five Indian language fonts as open source, licensed under the General Public License.

The never-ending TCO debate between the software industry’s greatest rivals in history -- Microsoft & Linux -- has got nastier. OSIA claims that Microsoft has its ‘facts’ on TCO comparison all wrong, and the IDC report was secretly funded by the Redmond giant, producing doctored results. The real evidence it claims, is the industry’s first concrete independent survey, which has delivered results strongly in favor of Linux.

Novell’s acquisition of SuSE may have given some vendors a sleepless night, but Red Hat is totally unfazed by the threat of competing against a billion-dollar club veteran. In an exclusive, CXOtoday spoke to Steve McWhirter, VP, Red Hat Asia-Pacific, an ex-IBM spearhead who has been an eye witness to the rise and fall of many movers and shakers in the business, along with Javed Tapia, Director, Red Hat India.

With SuSE now officially hitting Indian shores as Novell's Linux spearhead, Microsoft has another face in the enterprise space to contend with; or does it? Has the matrix changed, or do the rules of the game still remain the same?

IBM has delivered a significant boost to the fast-fading Unix computing space, with the launch of its eServer p5 -- an advanced line of Unix and Linux servers using Big Blue’s 64-bit Power5 microprocessors and micro-partitioning technology.

Lycoris today announced the release of Desktop/LX 1.4, the fifth release of its Linux desktop operating system. Desktop/LX 1.4, formerly known as Desktop/LX Update 4, features an enhanced desktop powered by KDE 3.2.3.