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Microsoft has up and made a 180-degree turn and is now saying it's going to halfheartedly support the Oasis-blessed OpenDocument Format (ODF) foist on it by Sun and the sovereign […]

You feel that? That was the earth shaking. Microsoft is going to support an open source network driver and subnet manager, something it's never done before, at least not that […]

At LinuxWorld the other day Computer Associates promised open source developers a million dollars to get them to built migration kits for CA's newly open sourced late-great Ingres database. Considering […]

Well, Linux has spawned a rare management company, which is odd, you see, because one would have thought that by now there would be a slew of them, but there […]

The SCO Group, wilting a bit under the constant barrage of criticism aimed at it lately for refusing to show the code it alleges Linux copied from Unix, flashed a […]

A team of programmers has released an early beta of an open source media player for Microsoft's Xbox video game console. The rogue player, called the Xbox Media Player, is […]

Outside Jeremy White, the founder and CEO of CodeWeavers, the commercializers of the long-running, never-ending open source Wine Project, which is reverse engineering the Win32 software layer so other people's […]

At LinuxWorld, Sun Microsystems made much of the fact that its new proprietary Sun Linux distribution would cleave to the Linux Standard Base (LSB) specification - it's way of claiming […]

Gartner researchers say it's still unclear whether the fabled open source process works higher up the food chain in areas such as high availability, clustering, systems management and transaction middleware. […]

Stinking chunks of crow was shoved down the throats of open source advocates yesterday after loyal FreeBSD user Edwin Groothuis discovered a Trojan lurking in the source code for some […]

in Sheep's Clothing By Shahin Khan, Chief Competitive Officer, Sun Microsystems My article titled 'Linux on the Mainframe: Not a Good Idea' [2/20/02; http://www.sun .com/executives/realitycheck/reality- 022002.html] seemed to strike a […]

Hewlett-Packard has licensed Jabber, the open source instant messaging platform with the dicey parent, Webb Interactive Services Inc. Denver-based Webb was rescued from imminent demise late last year when France […]

Caldera, which must be worried, says Red Hat's got this Advanced Server thing all wrong - especially the part about trying to attack Unix - and that Linux is only […]

Well, well, isn't Intel on a roll. HP is signed up as one of its telecom server customers and rumor has it IBM and maybe Compaq could be next. The […]

Wind River Systems is transferring its FreeBSD operations including the FreeBSD Mall, a FreeBSD software publisher and services provider, to Bob Bruce. Bruce's involvement with FreeBSD dates back to 1993 […]

The thirtysomething founder of MP3.com, using the rallying cry 'Bring choice to your computer!,' has put together a company called Lindows that he imagines can take on Microsoft and Windows […]

Insiders have drawn our attention to the fact that IBM, the great Linux router, has been strangely silent about open source for some months. The conclusion of course is that […]

Insiders have drawn our attention to the fact that IBM, the great Linux router, has been strangely silent about open source for some months. The conclusion of course is that […]

With IBM having all but killed AIX 5L (LX No 180), the combined AIX- UnixWare-Linux OS, the question becomes what Caldera is going to do for the Itanium. In coming […]

Work has begun on a new Debian-based Linux distribution optimized for multimedia. Developers behind the new Debian Multimedia Distribution (DeMuDi) project gripe that while the multimedia software sector is well […]

There are times you can just smell trouble brewing so we tried drawing Microsoft out on the subject of Ximian and the so-called Mono Project to put Microsoft's C# technologies […]

There are times you can just smell trouble brewing so we tried drawing Microsoft out on the subject of Ximian and the so-called Mono Project to put Microsoft's C# technologies […]

If you read this the first time through, pass by. Microsoft and its C# technologies, the heart of Microsoft's .NET scheme, got a ringing endorsement Monday from a most unlikely […]

This story is unchanged since it broke. Microsoft said Wednesday that it will let OEMs remove access to its browser in Windows XP and let them put whatever icons they […]

The Mozilla open source browser folk finally got their 9.1 beta out the door just hours after our last edition went to press. The event marks the beginning of the […]

Compaq is getting ready to open source its Single System Image Clustering technology, originally Tandem's invention, and make it available on Linux. Compaq says it's talked to the Linux distributions […]

Hewlett-Packard has chosen Debian as its Linux 'design center,' the platform that it's going to do all of its Linux work on. The decision is a sweet victory for Bruce […]

While we had Collab.Net chief Brian Behlendorf on the phone regaling us with how he tried to shove a stick in Microsoft senior VP Craig Mundie's bicycle when Craig was […]

The other day, and to some little fanfare, Sun took that P2P Jxta scheme that it looks like it cobbled together on the quick just so it could go running […]

OEone Corporation, the outfit started last year by former Corel Computer president Eid Eid, has finished work on its promised Linux- based 'operating environment' for Internet devices and is now […]

Ebiz, which fancies itself a Linux company and brags that it's the largest Linux retailer on the net thanks to its Linux Store and LinuxMall, has discovered that no, it's […]

Backup software giant Veritas has entered the Linux market, designating Linux as one of its strategic platforms and releasing its first servers designed to run on Linux. These entrees into […]

SGS-Thomson Microelectronics subsidiary Metaflow Technologies has gone to market with the first commercially available chip from a major manufacturer built around an open source core. Metaflow has introduced a system-on-chip […]

Great Bridge LLC, the start-up that's on the verge of its delayed attempt to commercialize the open source database PostgreSQL, is picking up Postgres experts in the fashion of the […]

Swsoft's open source OpenVZ Linux virtualization software, the basis of the company's proprietary container-style Virtuozzo widgetry, has been ported to Sun's multi-core Sparc-based T1 'Niagara' machines. Containers aren't as, well, […]

Lotus co-founder Mitch Kapor is venturing into the lion's den. Kapor, one of the key people behind the wildly successful Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet of yesteryear, is now the leading light […]