Sean Michael Kerner

Asia’s dominant Linux distribution, Turbolinux, has notched another win to provide the operating system for the China Ministry of Railways. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under the agreement Turbolinux will install and deploy Turbo HA, its high availability server application on 160 servers as well as 300 copies of Turbolinux Server. The […]

Citing increasing customer demand for open applications, IBM has launched a new Open Software Client Services blueprint for customers in Brazil. Big Blue said it plans to take a “consultative-based approach” in the retail, financial and government sectors in order to help Brazilian business migrate to an “open” environment. The new offering will target niches […]

The open source Mozilla Foundation, which traces its history to AOL’s Netscape, is about to release Mozilla FireFox 0.9, just four months after changing the browser’s name from Firebird to Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation, which was created out of Netscape in July of last year, said the FireFox release is still considered to be a […]

A set of separate decisions came down on Friday in SCO’s litigation against IBM and Novell . It would appear that both cases will continue well into the rest of the decade, with the IBM case extended and the Novell case given the go-ahead to continue. In March, SCO asked the court to spin off […]

Given the rapid growth of Linux in the technology industry, it might be easy to overlook other open source Unix variants. But recent numbers from research outfit Netcraft show that past is prologue. FreeBSD , that other Unix variant, has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year. Call it the stealth-growth open source […]

Offshoring accounted for less than 2 percent of IT layoffs in the first quarter of 2004, according to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which has begun culling which jobs are lost to firms overseas. The numbers helped provide new data in the debate about how many IT jobs are actually being shipped off-shore […]

As it battles on to claim copyright infringement in select parts of the Linux kernel, Lindon, Utah-based SCO Group reported second quarter revenues that were about 52 percent lower than the same time last year. The company said its net loss for the quarter was $15 million ($1.06 a share) in its fiscal second quarter, […]

Security researchers have found multiple potential security flaws in one of the main tools of modern open source code management, the Concurrent Version System. However, new versions of CVS have already been issued that correct the flaws. CVS, a source code maintenance system, has become the standard software configuration management (SCM) system of the Free […]

Linux desktop vendors Xandros and Linspire (also known as Lindows) are offering more desktop software for less, and, in the case of Xandros, for nothing. Xandros is giving away a version of its Linux Desktop Operating System for free. “Our principal aim is to spread the use of desktop Linux as far and wide as […]

Having survived the recent industry slump only to grapple with reports of increased offshoring, the morale of IT workers has sunk to an all-time low, according to new research from the Meta Group . The Stamford, Conn., firm said that in a survey of more than 650 companies, 72 percent of respondents identified low IT […]

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor Interwoven Monday announced OpenDeploy 6, the company’s automated Integrated ECM Platform and Web Change Management Solution. OpenDeploy 6 is the latest release from Interwoven’s Web Change Management initiative, which was first announced last year. It allows IT administrators to consistently and easily deploy ECM assets across an enterprise. “OpenDeploy 6 […]

Linux vendor Red Hat has added another weapon to fight virus exploits, a patched Linux kernel that takes advantage of the NX security protocol. “It addresses one of the most common security exploits for viruses,” Red Hat spokesperson Leigh Day told internetnews.com. NX security makes use of the NX x86-based feature in AMD’s 64 bit […]