Red Hat doubles JBoss funding, Mar 16, 2007

Open-source specialist Red Hat claims that it is doubling the amount of research and development investment in JBoss -- the open-source application server company it acquired last June.

Novell has issued a joint press release with Microsoft, in which HSBC, a customer of joint technology from the two companies, claims that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux.

Open-source specialist Red Hat has released the latest version of its Linux distribution, which will now feature in-built virtualisation and clustering technology.

The One Laptop per Child project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory.

silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK sat down with Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik at the company's user summit in Nashville, Tennessee, for a brief discussion on how he intends to keep his company at the cutting edge and battle the biggest threats to its future success

The head of the $100 laptop project will present a keynote at Red Hat's second user conference

Mike Evans from Red Hat discusses his company's involvement in the One Laptop per Child project, which aims to develop and distribute a US$100 PC to millions around the world.

Putting an open source-based laptop in the hands of millions of users around the world will help drive home the importance of non-proprietary development and applications, says Red Hat

"I think in ten years you will see Microsoft become a major opponent of patents and we will see very large software vendors turn around their position on patents," [Ubuntu founder Mark] Shuttleworth said.

Microsoft may have opted to port Office to the Mac but it has no plans to do the same for Linux even if the open source OS overtakes the Apple platform

ITV's director of operations Nick Leake has taken the brave move of moving a lot of his company's core systems onto Linux. We ask him how the migration is working out

Jack Messman claims the tipping point for desktop Linux will come at the end of next year when companies are confronted by the cost of moving to Windows Vista

The head of Open Source Development Labs, Stuart Cohen, has added weight to rumours of greater collaboration between Microsoft and the open source community

Several leading mobile technology players are cooperating on a project to explore Linux's potential as the major software component in smart phones of the future.

Support for Linux in the traditionally conservative world of financial services has more than doubled in the last year according to the latest market intelligence.

Growing support for Linux has been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations over the past twelve months, say researchers

Analysts believe Steve Ballmer's claim that governments who use Linux face the threat of patent lawsuits could rebound on Microsoft, while open-source vendors accuse it of spreading more fear, uncertainty and doubt

Senior IBM executives claim a few key government departments will drive the momentum around Linux on the client

Novell chief executive Jack Messman sat down with ZDNet UK on Monday at BrainShare in Barcelona, and gave a typically combative take on the current state of the software industry.

According to Messman, Microsoft is under immense pressure to ship Longhorn before Linux becomes an even more compelling alternative to Windows.

Making money from open source is a balancing act.

While your underlying product is forged in the white-hot fires of online altruism, the success of your business means striking pleasing postures for the investment community.

As the largest stand-alone Linux distribution, Red Hat has had to perfect this balancing act the hard way.