Dell CEO says Linux server sales increasing faster than Windows, Oct 16, 2007

Speaking at a Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Michael Dell says that his company is seeing Linux update on the server end increasing faster than Windows. Recent claims by Microsoft alleging software patent infringements have also not affected Linux-based hardware sales.

Is your organization in the process of migrating from Microsoft Word to OpenOffice.org on Linux? If so, your biggest obstacle may not be getting used to the new suite, but rather moving from Microsoft's proprietary .doc format to OpenOffice's Open Document Format (ODF).

IBM Corp.'s decision to offer a Linux-only mainframe -- at 90% less than the cost of its flagship box has had the intended effect, research now shows.

It’s a Wednesday, so that must mean yet another new customer for the folks at Red Hat. Today, it’s Axfood, one of the largest food retailers in Scandinavia.

IT managers that want to secure their Linux environments and keep things running smoothly have a very powerful tool at their disposal: Security Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, an implementation of mandatory access controls originally developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and integrated in to most mainstream Linux distributions.

What makes an enterprise-class database? Redundancy and failover capabilities are just two important features that MySQL expert Scott Noyes names. Noyes also tackles the issue of who's faster: PostgreSQL or MySQL. Along the way, he gives some advice for users working with Sybase and MySQL.

As the launch of Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" 7.04 draws near, proponents of the Linux operating system (OS) are predicting much wider adoption of it in server environments.

When Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 launched, it contained more than just new software. It also offered customers a substantially streamlined service-level agreement (SLA).

When it launches in April, Xandros BridgeWays will be the latest application in what has quickly become an increasingly crowded category of products offering interoperability between Linux and Windows server environments.

By all appearances, the migration from Microsoft Windows to Novell SUSE Linux on the server and the desktop at the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California has been almost as pain-free as any IT professional could hope for.

Novell Inc. likes to point out that it launched SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 a full nine months before Red Hat Inc. could get its latest Linux release, RHEL5, out the door (it is due out in March).

Linux kernel version 2.6.20, released on Sunday, offers access to a new framework meant to provide a user-friendly, high performance platform for Linux virtualization in the future.

Experts, users and authors agree: When Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 launches in February, it will succeed or fail on the merits of Xen.

For many IT managers and open source advocates, the infamous SCO trial resembles one of those hokey daytime dramas. What was once the Linux trial of the ages has today devolved into a contract argument with little bearing on the future of Linux or opens source software.

There are currently more than 140,000 active open source projects available for download. Some are just concepts, while others are enterprise-ready applications like Linux.

As part of a list of predictions for 2007, research firm IDC said Microsoft's client operating system anti-piracy efforts will backfire in 2007. Instead of stamping out software piracy, the campaign will drive customers toward a Linux desktop, said the Framingham, Mass.-based research firm.

[Ohio Environmental Protection Agency network admin Sommer "Skip"] Holler said he also enjoyed greater flexibility and choice when it came to updating hardware in his Linux server environment.

When executives from VMware Inc. and commercial Linux vendor Red Hat said they would expand cooperation between the two companies on the Linux front, it signaled a possible shift in the way IT managers might look at operating system distribution in the future.

I had my "flying-pigs" moment on seeing the headlines: rapprochement, accord, peace between Linux and Microsoft.

Mark Shuttleworth wants to take the ugly duckling, which is the Linux desktop operating system, and turn it into a beautiful swan.