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Ballmer's attack on open source boosts Linux, say OSIA
Talkback When my company will jump to linux desktop in 3 years all the dificulties which came with multi user OS will be learned and wellknowed and comparison between linux and next W ? I can say to XP is a very good chance for linux desktop
[November 2, 2004, 10:39]
Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'
Talkback Windows accounts for over 90% of the desktop market would be futile. An application needs an OS to run on, and everyone who tries to compete with MS in the application space one windows loses horribly.
[November 13, 2003, 19:47]
The problems with open source
Talkback Or the new desktop environment IT Staff is pushing out. Elas, the support for Microsoft products isn't ideal either. Sure, there are plenty of takers of your money but results vary and there are more wannabee experts out there then people that...
[August 8, 2005, 23:22]
Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
News Recent examples of open source public sector deployments include the educational sector in Indiana, which is trialling the use of desktop Linux in schools in a project that could lead to 300,000 Linux PCs being deployed across the state.
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Linux gets spruced-up desktop
News The software is a desktop environment running on top of Linux, the open-source operating system favoured by software developers and many Web sites. In August the organisation, which draws on the efforts of a large number of open-source enthusiasts...
[November 23, 2001, 13:46]
Vienna starts desktop Linux migration
News The Austrian capital city of Vienna kicked off its soft migration to open source software on the desktop on Tuesday. Departments in the city administration will now be given the option to migrate to open source software on the desktop.
[July 5, 2005, 18:00]
HP to support Mandrake Linux on the desktop
News France's MandrakeSoft has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard in the open source camp's latest foray into the desktop PC market. Linux is based on an open source licence that prevents any one company from owning the software, and competes against...
[January 30, 2002, 17:04]
Red Hat launches Global Desktop
News Szulik repeated claims that the open-source specialist had no desire to repeat the mistakes of other companies that had tried to challenge Microsoft on the desktop. Open-source specialist Red Hat is preparing a major push around the desktop, with a...
[May 10, 2007, 14:01]
Microsoft to Linux: 'Bring it on'
News The increasing take-up of open source on the desktop will drive Microsoft to create better products in response, the software giant said on Wednesday. Tipp appeared as part of a debate at the conference, where a number of players in the open-source...
[April 21, 2004, 14:55]
Vienna's open source desktop migration takes off
News Vienna's 'soft' migration to open source on the desktop is proving more popular with users than expected, according to Erwin Gillich, the head of IT at Vienna's municipal authority. ZDNet UK recently completed a study looking at open source in...
[November 21, 2005, 15:40]
No Office on Linux 'at this time'
News Microsoft has rejected porting its Office productivity suite to Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop. On the specific issue of Office for Linux, Eric Raymond, a prominent figure in the open source...
[October 5, 2005, 17:45]
OpenOffice gets the Zulu touch
News The popular open-source desktop suite OpenOffice will be available in three new languages on Saturday: the South African languages of Zulu, Sepedi and Afrikaans. Employees at Translate.org.za are focusing on translating the Linux Desktop...
[August 27, 2004, 13:00]
Jeeves asking Mozilla for support
News Ask Jeeves and the Mozilla Foundation have begun discussions on the twin possibilities of a Firefox-based Jeeves browser and of donating Jeeves' desktop search technology to the open source group. In a meeting with Mozilla late last month, the...
[February 15, 2005, 11:45]
SuSE Linux gets desktop search
News For the first time anywhere SUSE Linux Pro includes Beagle, the innovative open source desktop search tool that can access everything on your desktop," Novell said in a statement. SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 will include Beagle, an open source...
[March 7, 2005, 16:25]
KDE to include Google-type desktop search
News Developers of the open-source Linux desktop environment KDE have announced plans to simplify searching for files on the KDE desktop by adding a Google-style search feature. Seigo said that open-source desktop software is traditionally not as easy...
[August 26, 2004, 12:35]
Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability
News A company that migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux on the desktop has praised the open source operating system's stability. Günter Stoverock, the data processing manager at German import company Heinz Tröber, said on Thursday his firm had...
[March 10, 2005, 16:50]
Email 'crucial' to desktop Linux's future
News The Desktop Linux Client Survey 2005, organised by the Open Source Development Labs, found that the lack of a powerful email application could hinder the adoption of Linux on the desktop. The survey suggests a cultural shift has occurred among...
[December 1, 2005, 9:55]
Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice
News The next stage of the project was to be a Linux migration on the desktop.The suspension of this project has been reported by analysts as evidence that open source software isn't ready for mass deployment on the desktop
[September 5, 2006, 16:10]
$100 PC project will 'invigorate Linux desktop push'
News Speaking to ZDNet UK on Monday, Mike Evans, vice-president of corporate development said that although this is not the primary aim of the project, a cheap ubiquitous open-sourced based laptop would potentially initiate an increased interest in...
[January 31, 2006, 9:30]
Desktop Linux wins powerful supporters
News And the Open Source Development Lab, which so far has concentrated on Linux for the data storage and processing computers called servers, expects to launch a new group to concentrate on desktop needs starting next year.
[November 12, 2003, 7:45]
