Don't Look to Linus Torvalds for Leadership, Oct 12, 2007

The Linux guru seems to be trying very hard to make the latest Linux kernel update as boring as possible.

I’m actually beginning to picture a day when users start to ask their IT departments why they can’t run Ubuntu Linux at work, the way they do at home.

Teradata this week fleshed out its plans to offer support for Linux in its database and data warehousing products at its annual Partners user conference.

It was like watching Darth Vader call a truce with the Jedi rebels, or Wile E. Coyote finally deciding to leave the Road Runner in peace.

The Bank of Canada is slowly moving off of Unix into an environment that will see its economic analysts using Windows PCs to create models running on a Linux-based cluster.

Like any decentralized business with many branch locations, the diocese is discovering that Web content management is a vital part of working together. It has also discovered that an open source tool called "Plone" is just the software for the job.

Canadian companies shouldn’t migrate from Windows-based mail servers to open source expecting a free ride, executives told the LinuxWorld Expo Wednesday morning.

Ever since Microsoft executives began discussing Longhorn several years ago, members of the open source community have been trying to figure out how they will compete with some of the product's key feature enhancements. Late in August, however, Microsoft said it would push back one of those features, the WinFS file system, while the Avalon graphical interface and Indigo Web communications framework will be released as upgrades to Windows XP