Silk is an open source platform that can be deployed along side most existing collaboration applications or business processes, such as email clients, IM programs and document management applications. Due to its open nature, Silk contains features that are deemed valuable by the users themselves. Silk provides a rich set of collaborative functions seamlessly integrated together resulting in "data in context."

A recent report shows Linux failing to gain much traction on the desktop. But continued interest at the server level continues to spur vendor investment, particularly in e-mail access and databases.

Supporters of the next GNU General Public License are girding for an onslaught of comment and controversy, but they remain confident that the open-source community will survive and be made stronger for the effort.

Progeny, a start-up seeking to commercialize the Debian version of Linux, is on the prowl for new funding, a company co-founder has confirmed.

Seven years on, with Kunze's thesis well proven, the LAMP acronym has been co-opted by the marketing department of at least one of the LAMP constituents to stand for an altogether different proposition;

Veritas - er, Symantec rather - has upgraded its server and storage management products to put versions of the software meant for Linux on equal footing with Unix code.

I am throwing up this page because I have yet to see a decent LINUX based CarPC that shows the potential of what can be achieved if the effort is put forth. I have spent the last month or so tweaking the software as well as fabricating the LCD and controls to the point where I am satisfied with the result.

A British executive for Sun said on Friday that the release date for the company's StarOffice 8 suite would now be September 12, almost two months later than originally anticipated.

Evans Data Corporation released a study which predicts fast growth for Asia-Pac open source. The survey, in which more than 400 developers throughout the region weighed in, indicates that 47 percent of the respondents plan on increasing their use of open source in the next year.

Recently Red Hat has spun off the Fedora Core Project into its own organization in much the same way that the Mozilla project was spun out of Netscape back in the late 1990s.

As Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, Bill Hilf spends half his time trying to figure out ways Windows can work better with Linux and the other half trying to outflank the open-source rival.

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer halted the steady market share advance of The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser in July, a Web site monitoring company announced today.

Startup EnterpriseDB said it aims to compete with MySQL AB, the open-source database leader while also taking on rivals Pervasive Software and Greenplum.

According to their website, "Echo2 is the next-generation of the Echo Web Framework, a platform for developing web-based applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients.

Create reusable, extensible, and scalable PHP code. The May 2005 IBM developerWorks article "Getting started with objects with PHP V5" covered enough detail to get a reader up and running with the basics of classes and objects in PHP.

Microsoft can snipe all it wants, but news coming out of LinuxWorld shows one thing: With the database at the center, enterprise applications are thriving in an increasingly rich Linux ecosystem.

These guys have been talking to each other. Over the last two weeks, there has been a rash of announcements from a number of leading vendors pledging support for new open virtualisation standards.

While it remains one of the top providers of proprietary database and applications software in the world, Oracle this week made several moves to demonstrate that it is a major player in the Linux and open-source market.

Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive for IBM's software division, discussed Linux usage trends, the company's involvement in the development of Linux and open-source virtualization software, and plans for AIX during an interview with Computerworld here yesterday at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers his assement of Microsoft's new Windows Vista in this column from eWEEK.com. "It's late, it's lame and installing it won't be cheap, so now is the perfect time for Linux desktop vendors to make a charge at Microsoft," says Vaughan-Nichols. He continues . . .

THE ponytails have been in short supply at the annual LinuxWorld bash in San Francisco this week. Chris DiBona of Google sported one of the few, as if to stress that one of the richest software companies in Silicon Valley remains studiously antiestablishment.

The objective of this whitepaper is to explain some of the features and benefits provided by FreeBSD, and where applicable, compare those features to Linux. This paper provides a starting point for those interested in exploring Open Source alternatives to Linux.

I was speaking with Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, Dir Marketing of Linux/OpenSource for Novell yesterday as a follow up on my suck&blow op ed.

As Greg put it, they’re getting into pushing Linux adoption. So, what does this mean? openSUSE is a development project, all development, all the time. You won’t be getting a stable release from the openSUSE project directly. It is simply cutting edge all the time. Where this approach differs from Fedora, as I alluded to, is that Novell itself will be putting the finishing touches on these development releases to push them out the door as SUSE Linux.

Distrowatch reports - The second beta of Mandriva Linux 2006 is now available for testing. From the release notes: "x86_64 initrd generation problem is workarrounded (sic); new Mandriva theme; massive PHP modules update; fixed single user mode in initscripts; diskdrake: fix update boot loader on renumbering partitions; drakconnect: allow to use WEP keys in wpa_supplicant, use ifplugd for wireless interfaces, handle access point roaming using wpa_supplicant, initial IPv6 support (6to4 tunnel), keep MS_DNS1, MS_DNS2 and DOMAIN variables in ifcfg files; drakhosts, draknfs: do not crash when config file is empty....

OSDir has put together a lengthy screenshot tour of Mandriva Linux 2006 Beta 2.

Beta 2 hit the mirrors about 24 hours ago and so what's new? The most notable and easily noticed is the new theme. The new professional theme runs throughout the installer and installed Mandriva system.

Why you need to know objects and classes, and how to use them

Two Linux allies are taking a leaf out of their opponents' book as they try to prevent software patents from dragging open source into a mire of patent-infringement lawsuits.

Thousands of secondary schools students in the French region of Auvergne will receive CDs containing free and open-source software when they return to school in September.

A mere 3.2 percent of business users will have Linux or other open source office productivity applications running on their computers by 2008, says a new study from Gartner Research.

For the last three years the IT world has been debating the status of the Linux operating system as a potential platform on which to build enterprise solutions.