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Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News Speaking on the first day of the Linux specialist's annual user conference in Boston, Whitehurst said his company need to work on its approach to "mundane" issues such as its own internal systems and managing customer records. [20 Jun 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News In an email sent to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, Stallman criticised the use of open-source software, such as Red Hat Linux, JBoss middleware and Apache web-server software, in the online payment system for the Oyster contactless... [10 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News Symphony 1.0 is now available as a standalone package, running on Windows Vista and XP, as well as on major Linux versions including Suse and Red Hat. IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready... [09 Jun 2008]
Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support
News Smith said: "If it's open source, anyone with the knowledge can fix it - for example, the people who make your Linux distribution, such as Novell or Red Hat. Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for... [02 May 2008]
iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity
News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux diams... [30 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably. [21 Apr 2008]
Open source owes popularity to anti-US vibe?
News Whitehurst also explained Red Hat's business model, saying that payments for support allowed enterprise users to have a version of Linux which they can rely on: "You can sleep at night, knowing that it does not go down. [27 Mar 2008]
Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy
News It's part of the popular combination of open-source development products referred to as Lamp, for Linux Apache Web server, MySQL and the PHP development language, which is broadly used on the internet and within companies. [16 Jan 2008]
Poll: And the most over-hyped event of 2007 was...
News And back in November readers ranked it below Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux as their OS of choice. But if the folks in Redmond are looking a little red-faced after blowing up all those unwanted 'Wow' balloons, silicon.com readers are also convinced... [03 Jan 2008]
Stories of the month - November 2007
News Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP.iPhone in the UK: Hands up who wants one? Encryption certainly seems to be the buzzword of the month - it could have saved a lot of red faces in Whitehall if only those HMRC CDs had been encrypted. [29 Nov 2007]
Vista - businesses not convinced
News Forty-four per cent said they are "considering" alternative operating systems - mostly Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu. Furthermore, adoption of Linux continues to gather pace, with a particular emphasis on the desktop emerging. [26 Nov 2007]
Novell in the pink after bedding Gates
News Novell's main competitor in the Linux market, Red Hat, announced its quarterly results last week. Novell has claimed its Linux business has grown by 243 per cent over the last three quarters, and it has credited its deal with Microsoft as a big... [01 Oct 2007]
UK 'a closed shop for open source'
News Linux kernel developer and Red Hat fellow Alan Cox told delegates at the Westminster eForum event: "There is more open source work being done in Guatemala. The UK's failure to make use of open source is a "scandal", according to open source experts... [13 Sep 2007]
Citrix snaffles XenSource for half a billion dollars
News Xen is included in the two most used Linux server distributions from Red Hat and Novell and also works on Microsoft Windows. Citrix Systems has said it intends to acquire open source virtualisation company XenSource for around $500m, a day after... [16 Aug 2007]
Vista: Businesses rethinking quick switch
News While Linux has made considerable inroads in the server world and Apple has been able to substantially boost its market share in the consumer market, the corporate desktop remains solidly in Microsoft's domain. [16 Aug 2007]
