Skype agrees to obey GPL
News The company has abandoned its appeal against a German ruling that it must supply source code with Linux-based VoIP phones, in compliance with GPLv2 [09 May 2008]
Mac OS X gets first open-source virtualisation tool
News Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems [08 May 2008]
MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan
News Sun's MySQL database unit has reversed on plans to release important backup features under a proprietary licence, following criticism from the open-source community [08 May 2008]
OpenBSD 4.3 released
News An update to the popular Unix-like distribution includes new security features, drivers, software packages and bug fixes [06 May 2008]
SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is copy of Unix'
News Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride's court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell [02 May 2008]
Dell, HP, Lenovo back Linux with driver promise
News The companies have made a commitment to 'strongly encourage' chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for integration into the Linux kernel [02 May 2008]
- Nothing but common sense for the likes of them - Andrew Meredith
Big names drum up support for Asia Linux groups
News Participation by big vendors is helping attract new members to open-source groups in Asia, who want to benefit from shared knowledge and meet local and international developers [30 Apr 2008]
Sun sheds light on its open-source future
Q&A Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development [29 Apr 2008]
Ubuntu makes second stab at enterprise servers
News Canonical has unveiled its second enterprise-oriented server edition of Ubuntu, with performance, stability and security tweaks [23 Apr 2008]
Red Hat publishes Fedora 9 preview
News The open-source software maker has released the penultimate version of its free Linux distribution ahead of the full release next month [22 Apr 2008]
Proprietary vendors lose £30bn to open source
News Researchers claim that if open-source products and services were calculated at commercial prices, they would exceed the combined income of Microsoft, Oracle and Computer Associates [22 Apr 2008]
- Threatened? - Tezzer
Enterprise open-source census underway
News The project plans to tackle the fact that a lack of traditional software licences means there is little solid data on how much open-source software is being used by businesses [18 Apr 2008]
Sun criticised for MySQL Enterprise shift
News The company wants to offer some features of MySQL solely to enterprise customers, but critics say this is a sign the company wants to move the database away from its open-source roots [17 Apr 2008]
- The correct business model - dogStar
Open source seen as key to SaaS adoption
News By 2010, around 90 percent of software-as-a-service providers will be using open source within their technology 'stacks', says Gartner [17 Apr 2008]
Sun delivers its first MySQL update
News Version 5.1 of MySQL is the first release candidate to be delivered by the open-source database organisation following its acquisition by Sun [16 Apr 2008]
- First announcement...sign of intent - Dan Purvis
Via project to boost Linux support
News Via Technologies has launched a project to improve support for open-source development around its products [09 Apr 2008]
Conservatives press for open-source push
News David Cameron has claimed that a Conservative government would champion the use of open-source software and seek a less centralised approach to IT projects in government [07 Apr 2008]
Gartner: Open source will quietly take over
News Open source will soon be in every organisation predicts a Gartner report, although IT managers may not be aware it is happening [04 Apr 2008]
- Managing Undocumented Code - mbleasdale
Red Hat: Open source driven by anti-US sentiment
News The company's CEO says resentment at paying billions of dollars in 'intellectual property taxes' to US companies is boosting open source [26 Mar 2008]
Novell: Putting the FOSS in Fossa
Q&A Chief technology officer Jeff Jaffe claims Novell is serious as ever about open source, but that it also wants to promote the idea of mixed-source environments: the reality for most businesses [24 Mar 2008]
Novell aims SLES 11 at Sun and Red Hat
News The Suse owner claims that migrations from Unix are still a massive opportunity for growing its Linux business [20 Mar 2008]
