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HP And Medsphere Help Midland Memorial Hospital Improve Patient Safety Via An Open Source-Based Electronic Health Record System
White Papers OpenVista's use of the Linux operating system and an associated desire to use Linux-based hardware helped to decide to remain standardized on an HP platform. In addition to completely replacing the legacy systems, it was decided to implement a...
[April 5, 2006, 0:00]
Big System Behavior At Small System Prices: Solaris OS Across Multiple Hardware Architectures Supports Commercial Grade High Performance Open Source Middleware
White Papers The multiple platform capabilities of Sun Solaris Operating System help OCI provide big system features and reduce costs and risk for its customers. Object Computing, Inc. OCI) is a software engineering firm, specializing in distributed systems...
[November 28, 2005, 23:00]
Open-source Projects Link To Microsoft System
News The Higgins and Bandit open-source projects are claiming a milestone in the development of open-source identity services with a link to a new Microsoft identity system. At next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, backers of Higgins and Bandit...
[January 29, 2007, 8:17]
SourceLabs Creates Automated Open Source Help System
News Its products focus on open source Java development software and a software "stack" composed of the Linux operating system, the MySQL database and the Apache Web server. Eyeing the multibillion-dollar software-support business, SourceLabs has...
[June 28, 2006, 13:05]
Palm Touts Stability Of Linux-based Treos
News Palm's move into mobile Linux is interesting because open-source operating systems have until now been more attractive to manufacturers seeking to "drive more advanced data capabilities into the mass market", said analyst Dale Vile of Freeform...
[April 11, 2007, 13:35]
Rogue Code Can Take Down Linux Systems
News Linux users have been urged to fix a flaw in the core component of the open-source operating system, following the public release of code that could be used to crash Linux systems. The open-source Linux operating system has fallen prey to its share...
[June 16, 2004, 8:55]
Turbolinux Reaches Out To Microsoft
News Turbolinux, a Japanese seller of the open-source operating system, has bridged a philosophical divide by licensing Microsoft technology for playing digital music and video. Pragmatism led the company to combine products from the ideologically...
[April 28, 2004, 8:50]
Torvalds Moves Next Linux Into Final Phase
News Linux leader Linus Torvalds has moved the development of the upcoming 2.6 kernel of the open-source operating system to a new phase aimed solely at making the heart of the OS less likely to crash. And the Open Source Development Lab, which employs...
[October 10, 2003, 12:10]
Novell Offers Linux Protection, As SuSE Deal Completed
News Novell expects this week to begin offering SuSE Linux customers some legal protection for using the open-source operating system, marking the fourth legal umbrella provided by a computing industry grappling with legal threats brought by the SCO...
[January 13, 2004, 7:25]
Oracle To Clone Red Hat Linux
News Oracle will sell support to Red Hat Linux customers and offer its own free clone of the open source operating system, posing a major competitive challenge to the leading Linux seller. He said the Linux seller isn't re-evaluating its pricing, its...
[October 26, 2006, 9:25]
Intel Launches Open Source Group
News Intel has created a group to focus on Linux and other open source software issues, the newest move to bring the open source operating system closer to parity with competing products from Microsoft. Intel spokesman Michael Houlihan confirmed the...
[May 11, 2005, 9:45]
Slackware Ditches GNOME Service
News Linux distribution Slackware has dropped the GNOME desktop environment from its version of the open source operating system, claiming that it is too much work to maintain it. This is how open source is supposed to work - new projects spring up to...
[March 29, 2005, 16:30]
IBM And SuSE Queue For Cash Registers
News SuSE Linux, a seller of the open-source operating system, has begun a partnership with IBM to bundle its software with Big Blue products geared for high-tech cash registers. Linux leader Red Hat has largely bypassed embedded Linux to focus on...
[January 8, 2004, 7:35]
News Roundup: The Business Of Linux
News Britain's second annual Linux Expo -- held in London last week -- reflected the new popularity of the open source operating system as it moves from being purely a developers' and enthusiasts' favourite and begins courting the corporate world.
[June 8, 2000, 8:23]
OSDL To Push Linux For Mobiles
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative on Monday to bring the open source operating system to mobile phones. It's also set up to spur development of applications...
[October 17, 2005, 9:35]
Red Hat Announces Real-time Additions To Linux
News Open-source specialist Red Hat has launched a "real-time" addition to its Linux operating system, which it claims will make some features run 100 times faster than rival technologies. It is the first commercial implementation of Advanced Message...
[December 4, 2007, 13:03]
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]
Red Hat's Pricing Attacked By Dell
News Red Hat needs to lower its prices, or risk losing customers to free versions of the open-source operating system, the Dell executive who oversees the partnership with the Linux seller said on Tuesday.
[December 8, 2004, 12:30]
Linux 'not Just For Power Users'
News Linux advocates hoping to convert Windows users to the open source operating system are more likely to succeed with technophobes and very inexperienced computer users than with Windows power users. The researchers' view is supported by Jon Oxer...
[April 6, 2005, 9:30]
Could Novell Kill OpenSolaris?
Blog Sun's just opened its developer conference with the long-delayed launch of OpenSolaris, the open source version of its Solaris operating system. OpenSolaris Arrives Just to Die", says Practical Technology, pointing out that Linux has come on in...
[May 7, 2008, 12:59]
