According to a survey released June 1 by Microsoft Certified Partner Port80 Software, 53.8% of all Fortune 1000 company Web sites are powered by Windows and Microsoft's IIS servers, while only 21.2% of these giant companies use Apache and other open source software to run their corporate Web presences. This means these companies offer a huge potential market for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) vendors and service providers.

However, Jose Luis Chiquete of the Mexican open-source software association Amesol said the organization was working to dispel some of the myths surrounding open source. "We want to compete on a balanced level. We know that the use of open-source software -- like any platform -- has its restrictions and problems."

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise announced its strong commitment to patent reform to remove barriers to innovation at the Red Hat Summit today. Mark Webbink, Deputy General Counsel at Red Hat, addressed the audience articulating a three-part intellectual property strategy aimed at ensuring an open right to innovate.

As the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is readying a group to tackle the issues of licence proliferation, earlier proposals to solve the problem have fallen into disgrace, vnunet.com has learnt.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has signed a multi-million-dollar, multi-year enterprise deal to use Linux and identity management products from Novell Inc., the vendor revealed on Tuesday.

Despite helping to launch the Mozilla Foundation and releasing the code to its AOL Server software, America Online has never been synonymous with open source. But a number of new initiatives could change AOL's proprietary image, as the company strives to reach a broader audience on the open Web.

Red Hat is changing course again with its free Fedora version of Linux, announcing Friday that it will turn over copyrights and development work to an outside entity called the Fedora Foundation.

Like nearly every other person who has contributed to this series, I have tinkered around with my share of Linux distributions. I happened on Linux From Scratch (LFS) about an year and a half ago. With LFS, my choices run deep into the system -- into matters such as which shell to run, what feature of glibc to use, and how to tailor boot scripts. LFS 6.0, which is what I have built my system around, comes with gcc 3.4.1 (which is used to build everything else), a fairly recent CVS build of gcc 2.3.4 (which the LFS team provides for download), kernel 2.6.8.1, and udev.

The often-hostile relations between Microsoft and the open-source community are thawing, and new dialogues appear to be opening between senior officials in both camps.

Sophos demonstrated a prototype of its Linux on-access virus scanner at LinuxWorld Expo/Tokyo on 1-3 June 2005.

Samsung will be the first to bundle Nero LINUX with a DVD/CD burner, its TS-H552U WriteMaster. The bundle will be available as a retail kit.

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday published a developer preview of its next Firefox browser. The software, called Deer Park Alpha 1, includes an easy way to let users remove browsing history, cookies, cache, saved form information, and other personal data--a "Sanitize" feature, according to Mozilla.

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik spoke to the press last week, stating that desktop Linux is now a "dominant element in most of [his] discussions," whereas two years ago the subject rarely came up, according to an article at News.com by Stephen Shankland.

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Python 2.3 introduced the logging module to the Python standard library. logging provides a standard interface for outputting information from a running application.

Most open-source applications consist of more than just "one big lump of code. You've got many different derived versions of the single lump of code, and Launchpad takes that into account," said Benjamin Hill, a free software activist currently employed by Canonical.

Zygote Media Group and e frontier (formerly Curious Labs, Inc.) announced a joint venture today to make available two free sets of open source 3D human models for artists to use in any way they choose.

Robert Watson has posted a number of status updates relating to various pieces of work going on in the TrustedBSD Project, and in particular, relating to integration of recent changes into the FreeBSD CVS tree for inclusion in the upcoming 6.0 release.

Many Unix administrators I know (you know who you are), always used to smirk when I talked about Linux. They could always point to the fact that regardless of whatever I could say, they had journaling file systems, which they could manage using various Logical Volume Management (LVM) tools, and I couldn't touch that.

koffice.org announced - The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KOffice 1.4rc1, the first release candidate release for KOffice 1.4, scheduled for release later this month. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE which utilizes free and open standards for its document formats, component communication and component embedding. This release is principally a public testing and developer solicitation release (more help is welcome!).

Thanks to the Klax KOffice 1.4 RC Live-CD we were able to grab some sweet screenshots of this exciting RC.

Hoping to take out much of the typical toil associated with building and deploying browser-based database applications for the MySQL database, Alpha Software on Thursday unwrapped a tool that allows developers and nonprogrammers alike to do so significantly faster.

Open source projects need to be more customer focussed if they are to succeed in the corporate marketplace, according to several companies attending the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam this week.

The Linux-based TomTom Go in-car navigation device has received an "Editor's Choice" award from PC Magazine. The PC Magazine editors praise the device's low cost, intuitive user interface, 3D map quality, sound quality, battery life, POI (points-of-interest) database, and more.

Yes, Red Hat’s chief executive officer is taking his role as evangelist for disrespected Linux to a new level. Szulik's performance was reminiscent of Bob Young, the Hatters' former top executive and co-founder who is quite a showman himself.

Developers of the Mozilla Foundation's open-source e-mail client have added a podcasting feature to its arsenal and improved its defense against phishing attacks.

Archos is offering an SDK for its Linux-based "pocket media assistant." The toolkit can be used to create non-commercial applications for the PMA400, and is available for a fee for commercial use. It includes proprietary multimedia libraries, an ARM-Linux kernel and cross-toolchain, sample applications, and documentation.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) may soon support a version of the Linux operating system designed for its NonStop line of fault-tolerant servers, an HP executive hinted Wednesday.

Wholesale and retail VoIP service provider VoX Communications says it has deployed what it believes to be the first-ever VoIP application server cluster technology based on the Linux operating system.

Need groupware that doesn't require tedious installation and configuration, and is ready for use in a matter of minutes? Lucane can be deployed in no time, and is so simple to use that you don't need to spend hours learning it.

What's the best way to use the Web to sell products? A good open source option is OSCommerce, a shopping cart package that uses Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) software. Because it's open source, companies that use it can customize it themselves to better meet their needs.