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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]

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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]

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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

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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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

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]

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Linux: A buyer's guide for SMEs

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Linux in the virtual world

Analysis Companies that offer virtualisation software are changing their business models and tweaking their software more

Microsoft: Getting to grips with open source

Feature Has Redmond finally accepted that open source should be embraced, or are the company's recent partnerships with community-developed software providers simply another way to crack the competition? more

Sun shines a light on open source

Q&A Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, talks about the company’s open source strategy more

Microsoft's open source mind shift

News Analysis: The software giant's promise not to sue over Web services patents reflects the spread of the collaborative development model and a change of stance for the company more

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Its the applications and device drivers that run on windows that cement its dominance. How many people would fork out hundreds of pounds for Vista if Linux ran all the software and kit they wanted to use.

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Windows' dominance stifles demand for Linux