Linux sales booming thanks to Microsoft: Novell, Oct 01, 2007

Novell says its Linux business has grown by 243 percent over the last three quarters, and it largely credits its deal with Microsoft.

Michael Meeks has a tough job. Anyone who's struggled with making documents not created in the Word interface with Microsoft Office should be able to sympathise.

Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, said he is "not ruling anything out" as the company assimilates a landmark judgement by the European Court of First Instance.

IBM is granting universal access to over 150 patents, mostly for web services, in what it believes is the biggest-ever release of this kind of intellectual property.

Richard Stallman may not have been at Novell's BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, but with some help from his friend Bruce Perens he was determined to lodge his objections to Novell's controversial deal with Microsoft.

Stratus Technologies has launched its first 64-bit version of Linux across six different server models, as the open source operating system continues to progress in the enterprise market.

Linux now forms a quarter of Dell's server business and is growing fast, the company says. Should Microsoft be worried?

Around 40 percent of data centres use a combination of Linux, Unix and Windows on their servers, according to Gartner

Intel is widening its small business offerings with a low-cost, high-capacity storage product

As HP claims market leadership over IBM, will the real leader in Linux servers step forward?

Business Objects announced on Tuesday that it has signed a "global alliance agreement" with Red Hat. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will jointly market and sell business intelligence software on the Red Hat Linux platform.

IBM's on-demand model is crazy and the open source movement is just people dorking around with source code. So says Microsoft's Charles Fitzgerald

Unisys says it is targeting open source as a 'key area' for growth as it tries to make Linux more attractive to large companies

New processors, systems and virtualisation software are aimed squarely at Sun's low-end customer base