Microsoft's business model is done, Mar 10, 2009

Commentary: The age of expensive office software may be near its end.

Cisco Systems Inc. appears to be teaming up with VMware Inc. for a plan to offer servers and expand its presence in the data-center market. The server reportedly runs a Real-Time Linux OS and is planned to ship with VMware preinstalled.

New Features in JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 Support Wide Range of Composite Applications

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, has become a member of the Foundation.

CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that transform Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, has extended the Google Chromium launch beyond Windows. They are announcing the release of CrossOver Chromium for Mac and Linux, available immediately as a free download.

Adobe has to do something other than run away from Microsoft. It should attack Microsoft with a Linux initiative.

Distrito Federal Justice Court Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cluster Suite to Experience Increased Performance, Cost Savings and Security

SCO Group Inc., the embattled software company best known for litigation targeting distributors of open-source, Linux software, said Friday it has filed for bankruptcy.

While SCO Group Inc.'s future may seem precarious following a courtroom setback earlier this month, Chief Executive Darl McBride says he has a plan to salvage the controversial software company.

State-by-state skirmishes over open-source document formats represent the latest showdown in a long-running, and so far unsuccessful, campaign to topple Microsoft's sheer dominance of the desktop software application market.

... in Manhattan, among the Wall Street analysts who cover Microsoft, the shipping of Vista to corporate customers is being greeted with a collective yawn.

Novell Inc.'s (NOVL) new chief financial officer said the decline in the company's legacy software sales in the third quarter was disappointing, but that its focus on Linux products is paying off in higher sales.

Eight signs that the software giant is dead in the water

Larry Ellison told the Financial Times this week that he was thinking of doing a Linux 'distro" (the term for individual variants -- short for distribution) to support the Oracle database. RedHat stock immediately took a hit.

Microsoft Corp. filed a formal complaint on Thursday charging European antitrust officials colluded with its rivals during an investigation into the software giant's compliance with an earlier antitrust ruling against it.

Red Hat Inc.'s stock fell 5.6% Tuesday after an analyst downgraded shares of the software company, which have more than doubled in value since February

Let's face it, Linux is free, useful and powerful. That alone says that it should have made a bigger impact on the desktop market than it has. There are obviously some problems.