PalmSource has joined MontaVista's Mobilinux Open Framework partner program and MontaVista has joined PalmSource's Palm Powered Mobile World (PPMW) program. Between them, PalmSource and MontaVista plan to help further accelerate the development of next generation Linux-based mobile pho...

The consortium wants to be the central repository where software patents and patent pledges are housed for the benefit of the open source community and the industry. When asked if the Commons would make any difference, OSDL general counsel said it would make the open source community '...

VMware says it expects the Community Source program to yield a richer and broader set of partner solutions that are well integrated with VMware virtual infrastructure products. Its partners can contribute shared code or create binary modules that extend interoperability and integrated ...

IBM said its new Linux approach would address critical business issues faced by both IT and line-of-business decision makers and claimed it make its customers more competitive in an on-demand world. Its formula equates on-demand real-time transformational efficiency with open systems, ...

SlickEdit v10 was awarded the 2005 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Product Excellence Award for 'Best Application Development Tool' this week in San Francisco. The award, managed by the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in conjunction with the show's organisers IDG World Expo, was announced ...

Appro International today announced that LinuxWorld Magazine in conjunction with the show's organizers IDG World Expo has named the company's Appro's XtremeBlade Cluster Solution as the winner of the 'Best Clustering Solution' category for the Product Excellence Awards at the LinuxWorl...

'Scalix stands out with its clear market focus and an SMB focus, too,' said LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards judge John H. Terpstra, as Scalix won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for 'Best Messaging Solution' here in San Francisco at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005. SYS-C...

'I expect that Release 2 of the Oracle Cluster File System will be distributed with version 2.6.14 of the public kernel,' said Andrew Morton yesterday as Oracle announced at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco the general availability of OCFS 2 as a free alternative to propri...

Xandros won a major award here at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo yesterday: Xandros was chosen as the 'Best Desktop/Productivity/Business Application' in LinuxWorld's Product Excellence Awards, managed by the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in close collaboration with IDG World Expo and...

Open source middleware proponents ObjectWeb assembled a set of vendors to join the project and agreed to co-lead the Project Management Committee (PMC). WTP was formally launched in June 2004 based on initial contributions from eteration, Lomboz, and IBM Rational Application Developer.

Alacos, enabler of organizations to transfer settings and application data from Windows desktops to Linux, will announce two new products: Linux Migration Agent Network Server Edition and Thin Client Migration Agent.

At LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco this week, Arkeia is showcasing its data protection solutions supporting Novell SLES9, MySQL v4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Arkeia's Network Backup Solution will be demonstrated in the MySQL and Novell partner booths as the first professional net...

PathScale has certified a new four-socket systemboard from Supermicro Computer Inc. for use with its PathScaleInfiniPath HTX InfiniBand Adapter. The Supermicro H8QC8/Eand the PathScale InfiniPath interconnect are being displayed in thePathScale booth at the LinuxWorld Conference and Ex...

'Every time one of our Linux blades had a hard disk crash, it took the better part of a day for one of our admins to get a new one up and running with the proper configuration,' says Arty Ecock, Manager of Enterprise Systems at City University of New York. 'With the Intrepid M disaster...

'Customers deploying performance-intensive applications on 64-bit Intel processor-based systems can experience enhanced scalability, performance and cost reduction with MKS Toolkit,' said Melissa Laird, an Intel general manager.

Linux Networx has announced its first annual Linux Networx User Group Conference, to be held in Snowbird, Utah September 12-14. The event is planned to provide a unique opportunity for existing and potential customers to receive training, listen to testimonials and network with industr...

An enterprising group of students at the IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark, has launched what it hopes may become 'The Linux of Beers' - it has created an 'open-source' beer by publishing its recipe and brand under a Creative Commons license.

Mike Shaver, founding member, Mozilla project and technology strategist, Mozilla Foundation, will be delivering a keynote address at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco next month titled, 'Flash Point: Reigniting Web Innovation.'

With the close of the Tarantella acquisition, Sun now owns all assets of a leading provider of software that enables organizations to access and manage information, data and applications across virtually all platforms, networks and devices, according to a company announcement.

He did it while he was CEO of NCR Corp through cost-cutting. Can HP's new CEO Mark Hurd (pictured) now do it again at HP? 14,500 employees may find out today - the hard way. In a move expected to save as much as $1.5BN annually, Hurd is widely expected to announce today major cuts in H...

In what may appear to be an abstruse argument to those not intimately involved with spec development, the recent criticism of Apple may appear to be confusing and perhaps irrelevant. But it goes to the heart of the ongoing debates between open-source software (OSS) advocates and the cr...

Wind River is expanding its industry-leading Linux solutions to address critical developer needs across all phases of the Linux development cycle.

A leader in embedded Linux technologies and development tools, TimeSys Corporation, has introduced LinuxDepot and LinuxEngine, new 'Linux Customization' solutions aimed at meeting the precise feature, footprint and hardware requirements of any embedded device.

The innovative features of a Linux-based Mobile Desktop called 'Mobilis' have already attracted three major clients viz. ITC (for health and education), Reva Electric Car Company (for its dashboards) and some South African Universities for their students, said the company's CEO yesterd...

Micro Center is going from today to be offering Linspire pre-installed on a number of PowerSpec desktop computers. The Linspire/Micro Center partnership follows recent market research reports that predict revenues from desktop Linux PCs will grow to $10 billion by 2008.

Mainframe customers who are looking to quickly leverage the business and technical benefits of Linux and open source software received a boost today, according to IBM and Red Hat, as they announced zSeries mainframe customers can now order a solution that includes IBM's Integrated Faci...

Novell has expanded its commitment to enterprise-class security by acquiring Immunix, Inc., a leading provider of host-based application security solutions for Linux. AppArmor, the Linux application security system, will from today be called Novell AppArmor.

'If you're not running Linux, it's difficult for an emerging Internet business like ours to get funding,' says Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster. The entrepreneurial search engine and advertising network, based in San Francisco, says it has reduced its operating hardware costs by 60 perce...

The city of Munich has pulled the plug on what was to have been the biggest Windows to Linux migration – of over 15,000 PCs - over patent concerns.

The SCO Group 'should provide AutoZone with a clear, direct explanation of each of its infringement claims so that AutoZone can frame proper responsive pleadings,' writes AutoZone its first formal response to the action yesterday - a motion to the court to stay the suit until SCO's thr...

Daniel Robbins yesterday resigned from his development responsibilities for Gentoo, including his role as Chief Architect and as manager of release engineering. A non-profit foundation guided by a board of trustees will henceforth control the copyrights of the Gentoo distro's GPL code....