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Shipping Company Abandons Open Source Software for Integrated E-Mail and Operating System
White Papers Leading Baltic shipping company Lisco Baltic Service, which has cargo and passengers ferry lines from Lithuania to Germany, Sweden and Russia, decided to update its ageing Open Source IT infrastructure.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
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...
[May 31, 2009, 21:42]
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]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
News Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the open source operating system OpenBSD, said Linux developers should work to improve the quality of the code, according to an interview in Forbes . IBM, HP and Sun have come under criticism before...
[June 17, 2005, 13:00]
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]
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]
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]
Debian tipped for February release
News The long-awaited next version of the Debian open-source operating system is most likely to be released in February, according to members of the Debian community. In addition, most of the software bundled with the operating system will be updated to...
[January 26, 2007, 11:22]
Red Hat, 3G Lab design wireless OS
News The companies will jointly develop an open-source operating system, but Linux won't be part of the deal, Red Hat and 3G Lab plan to announce on Tuesday. In open-source software such as Linux or eCos, programming code may be freely viewed and...
[July 31, 2001, 10:22]
China, Korea and Japan close to open-source deal
News Three North Asian countries are closer to signing a deal to co-develop an open-source operating system to replace Windows, according to the Japan news daily Nihon Keisai Shimbun. It is likely that this new effort requires international cooperation...
[September 1, 2003, 13:00]
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]
Indian adoption of Linux surges
News Linux is reaching further into government offices, with several state and private organisations in India adopting the open-source operating system. To counter the growing influence of open-source software, Microsoft is considering sharing source...
[February 13, 2004, 9:10]
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]
Torvalds gets legal protection force
News The Open Source Development Lab will pay its law firm to represent Linus Torvalds, the Linux operating system founder and leader who this week was subpoenaed in connection with a $3bn suit against IBM.
[November 14, 2003, 10:05]
Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
News The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code.
[June 30, 2008, 16:20]
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]
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]
