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TurboLinux Makes Big Moves
News On Monday, TurboLinux launched a full-fledged reseller program. Last, but not least, TurboLinux is issuing new versions of its operating systems. Compared to the efforts that Caldera and Red Hat have put into their reseller programs, TurboLinux has...
[February 1, 2000, 11:56]
Turbolinux Confirms Investor Woes
News Turbolinux, which makes a distribution of the Linux operating system that is popular in Asia, has been forced to issue a statement denying that it has gone out of business, although the company admitted it is restructuring its US operations.
[July 22, 2002, 11:01]
TurboLinux Makes Desktop Debut
News Developers and the Linux-curious will like what they see and experience in TurboLinux's TurboLinux Workstation 3.6, but it won't be suitable for use by most employees. Having originated on the Pacific Rim, TurboLinux is the only version of Linux PC...
[September 9, 1999, 10:59]
SuSE, Turbolinux Pool Linux Efforts
News SuSE and Turbolinux have joined forces for products running on higher-end IBM servers. SuSE, based in Germany, and Turbolinux, based in Japan, announced a strategic agreement on Thursday to jointly develop Linux operating system products for IBM's...
[October 18, 2002, 7:54]
Turbolinux Signs Massive Banking Deal
News The Industrial Commercial Bank of China has signed a deal with Turbolinux to run its open source software in all of the bank's operations. The bank will integrate Turbolinux's operating systems and software across its network during the next three...
[May 4, 2005, 15:40]
Turbolinux Signs Up HP, Compaq
News Turbolinux has signed deals under which Hewlett-Packard and Compaq will promote and sell its Linux server management software, the company plans to announce on Wednesday. Turbolinux got its start selling a version of the Linux operating system...
[January 30, 2002, 9:53]
Ouch! TurboLinux Hit With Layoffs
News One of the four major Linux distributors, TurboLinux, has laid off an undetermined number of its marketing, sales and development staff. TurboLinux confirmed the layoffs, first reported by the open-source enthusiast site Slashdot.
[June 1, 2000, 8:46]
Turbolinux To Expand Across Asia
News Far-east Linux distributor Turbolinux is looking to target the Indian market after achieving profitability in Japan and China. Mitsunobu Okada, the chief financial officer of Turbolinux, told IDG that it plans to send a number of employees to India...
[March 21, 2005, 14:25]
TurboLinux To Go Public In 2000
News Cliff Miller, president and CEO of TurboLinux, certainly hopes so. In a week in which Red Hat's stock price continued to go through the roof and Linux hardware vendor VA Linux prepared for its sure-to-be-hot IPO, TurboLinux began hinting about its...
[December 9, 1999, 14:47]
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]
Turbolinux Drops The 'Linux'
News Turbolinux has sold its Linux business to Japan's Software Research Associates and in the process has completed its transformation into a proprietary software company. Brisbane, California-based Turbolinux, which came to prominence by selling a...
[August 21, 2002, 8:18]
Turbolinux Emphasises Non-Linux Products
News Turbolinux, one of the four companies to win prominence selling the Linux operating system, now is trying to direct attention to higher-level software that runs on many different computers. The software will run on computers running any version of...
[August 31, 2001, 16:19]
IBM Broadens Turbolinux Software Pact
News Turbolinux has been selling IBM's DB2 database software but now will be allowed to sell several other IBM software packages, said Scott Handy, director of Linux solutions marketing at IBM. The companies will share revenue when Turbolinux sells IBM...
[January 10, 2001, 8:16]
Merging Turbolinux And Linuxcare Trim Staffs
News Linux seller Turbolinux and services provider Linuxcare both announced layoffs Friday, shortly before the companies plan to merge and two days after Linux competitor SuSE trimmed its staff. The layoffs affected staff across all divisions of...
[February 12, 2001, 8:52]
Big Bucks And TurboLinux
News TurboLinux, often credited as the No. More than a dozen technology companies pitched in to lay their money down on Linux, the technology, as delivered by TurboLinux. He continued, "We see our investment in TurboLinux as another example of Dell...
[January 18, 2000, 13:55]
Microsoft And Turbolinux Forge Compatibility Pact
News Microsoft has this week taken steps to further its relationship with open-source distributor Turbolinux, under a new agreement attempting to foster ease of use between mixed Windows- and Linux-based devices.
[October 24, 2007, 15:40]
Love: The Competition Is Not Red Hat
News On the evening of Wednesday 29 May four Linux companies -- Caldera, SuSE, Turbolinux and Conectiva -- signed an agreement to create a single Linux distribution for servers. Caldera's distribution team has been merged with Suse's distribution team...
[May 30, 2002, 16:48]
Linux Vendors Move To Standard Platform
News In January the Free Standards Group, along with HP, IBM, Dell Computer, Compaq Computer, SuSE, Red Hat, Caldera, Turbolinux and Ximian, announced version 1.1 of the LSB. As reported earlier by ZDNet UK, US companies Caldera International and...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
Linux Companies Part Ways
News After three months of operating as a single company, Turbolinux and Linuxcare have called off their merger because of difficulties joining the companies' finances and operations. Turbolinux has "more than enough cash to take us to profitability...
[May 2, 2001, 8:08]
Linus Goes Turbo In Japan - Number 1 OS
News The research, published by US-based Business Computer News, gives TurboLinux Workstation J 4.0 a massive 24% share of the current Japanese OS market -- way ahead of Windows 98, Macintosh and all other Linux OSs.
[July 28, 1999, 17:21]
