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10 reasons Linux should be your netbook operating system, Aug 17, 2009
I've read countless Microsoft-funded "studies" trying to persuade me that Windows is already dominating the netbook space. According to these studies, Linux might as well just take a curtain call because its act is over in the world of netbooks. That is simply not true. If it were, Asus wouldn't be selling netbooks with Linux pre-installed.
Will Linux own the cloud?, May 11, 2009
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says "Clouds are fundamentally new infrastructure. Why lock yourself into something proprietary?"
He believes that open source technology is the perfect vehicle for innovating in the cloud computing era. And in its article, "Cloud computing with Linux thin clients", IBM spells out the reasons it believes there will be "penguins in the clouds."
10 ways Microsoft could help Linux, Apr 06, 2009
Microsoft helping Linux? No way. Microsoft and Linux would forever be mortal enemies and one, hopefully Linux, would rise above the other in absolute world domination. Well, that hasn't happened. In fact it seems as if the two operating systems are determined to coexist in the IT world. Here is a list of the ways in which Microsoft could help Linux solidify itself as a viable enterprise and end user solution.
Sun: We screwed up on open source, Jun 25, 2008
Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".
Torvalds: Contributors' boss is not my concern, Feb 12, 2008
Torvalds wasn't concerned about knowing who the contributors were working for: "I know they get paid for doing Linux work and as far as I am concerned, I interact with a person"
Ubuntu bucks trend, goes for KVM virtualisation, Feb 12, 2008
Heading in a different direction from its main rivals, Ubuntu Linux will use KVM as its primary virtualisation software
Ex-MS security guru to dump Media Center for Linux?, Sep 26, 2007
Veteran Microsoft security expert, Jesper Johansson, says he may dump Microsoft's Windows Media Center in favour of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE after struggling with Redmond's DRM (Digital Rights Management) software.
Szulik: Software patents 'retard' innovation, May 24, 2007
Software patents are slowing innovation, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said on Tuesday.
Key Linux programmer moves to Google, Aug 15, 2006
Australian-born Andrew Morton, a key deputy to Linux leader Linus Torvalds, has taken a job at search engine powerhouse Google, a major user of Linux and other open-source software.
Running .NET on Linux with DotGNU, Aug 19, 2004
Who said .NET only runs on Windows? In this article we take a look at DotGNU and how you can get .NET applications running on Linux and other flavours of Unix.
PHP 5 hits the streets, Jul 14, 2004
The PHP Group has announced this week the availability of PHP 5, the next version of the popular Web scripting language.
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