The open source community has been a great new source of innovative and high quality products and these are now starting to achieve success above the operating system level.

The software giant has responded to EC concern over its server interoperability licence by cutting the proposed fees and promising more openness, but the issue of open source vendor exclusion remains

Opinion: Along with one of Microsoft's favorite research firms, companies that use both Linux and Windows are finding that Windows has no cost advantage over Linux. Are we surprised? I think not!

SpikeSource Inc., an open-source IT services company, has developed a solution for what it says is one of the biggest problems facing open-source technology adoption by large enterprises today: the lack of uniform integration, certification, testing and support for that software.

Microsoft has paid billions of dollars to make antitrust and unfair trade litigation go away, even as it endured waves of attacks by hackers and virus writers exposing its products' securities flaws.

Both Firefox and the Mozilla browser suite are vulnerable to attacks through flawed JavaScript engines, a security firm reported Monday.

Bacone needed to replace 45 desktop computers and purchase licenses not only for 45 copies of Window XP, but also for 45 copies of Microsoft Office. Enter creative thinking. Duncan, a business major, began using Linux in high school, and discovered OpenOffice.org shortly after that.

Open-source operating systems will not spread unless users have applications to run on them. As Linux matures and customers more seriously consider adopting it and its cousins, developers are constructing programs that increase the operating system's appeal.

As many as 98,000 people die each year as a result of preventable medical errors which Free and Open Source electronic medical records software could reduce.

During the launch of Sun's Java Desktop System (JDS), the company touted its product as a real alternative to Microsoft Windows.

(Sun Java Desktop System 3 Screenshots)

Following on the success of its Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a form of open-source development internally to create technology the company will sell commercially.

There's a growing trend for traditionally Windows-centric software companies to release Linux versions of their products. Nero AG recently decided to jump on the bandwagon by releasing a Linux port of their very popular CD burning software.

When entrepreneur Byron Sebastian started his company last year, he set his sights on the business software industry's ultimate cash cow: maintenance contracts.

Sun Microsystems has tapped a founder of the successful open-source Apache software project to join a new advisory board governing the OpenSolaris operating system project, the software and server maker said Monday.

The Mozilla Foundation has developed a beta patch for the Firefox browser that it claims improves the blocking of pop-up ads.

IOSN has produced a primer on Free/Open Source Software and Government Policy and a publication copy of the primer is now available for download.

ObjectWeb has announced that JORAM 4.2 has been released. JORAM is a 100% pure Java implementation of JMS 1.1. The Joram 4.2 release features high availability, enhanced management facilities and improved performances.

This release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a defining milestone in the evolution of Linux as the backbone of the enterprise. - redhat.com

OSDir recently took advantage of the Free 30-day Evaluation Subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to grab some nice screenshots of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop.

Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment, according to a new Yankee Group study released on Monday.

FBI info-sharing project is one of a growing list of open-source successes

I am excited to be able to make a personal contribution to help drive this disruptive technology by participating on OSDL's board of directors," said CSFB's former managing director and Global CIO, Frank J. Fanzilli Jr., as it was announced last week that he'd be joining the board of directors of the Open Source Development Labs.

Like most Americans, I was issued a set of blinders and a certificate of universal supremacy at birth. However, few things expose this cultural tunnel vision as well as a world-wide phenomenon such as the Open Source movement and the associated variety of Linux distributions targeted towards specific markets or parts of the world.

It's a question that evokes strong emotions from both Microsoft and legions of open-source supporters worldwide. Yet the discourse rarely is an apples-to-apples comparison or takes into account the true role that an operating system plays within the overall IT environment.

Microsoft is developing a home-grown version of the popular Python scripting language. Dubbed "IronPython," the twist Microsoft is bringing to its implementation is that it will run on the .NET Framework, which is the Microsoft programming environment used to create Windows applications.

In this week’s special report, you will read numerous reasons for agency officials to set aside their reservations and migrate to open-source software.

Most of the popular new PVR cards sold for Windows XP MC, known as "Blackbird", haven't hard drivers to use with Linux/Myth.

In the past decade, the biggest winner on the e-mail server landscape has not been IBM/Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange, but Windows, the operating system that supports the majority of messaging and collaboration platforms in use today.

Mozilla Foundation is making noticeable progress towards the security of their own products, unlike the main competitor, Microsoft, which has a slow response time even when the problems needed to be solved are clearly pointed out.

The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft.

Most top-tier hardware vendors are selling AMD64 workstation and server systems these days, including Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, and, more recently, IBM. Oddly enough, most of them are shipping with 32-bit operating systems installed by default.