IBM has won the right to build a powerful Linux-based supercomputer for the Department of Defense that will be used to design and test weapons systems, the company announced Tuesday. Nicknamed "Stryker," the machine will run at a speed of 10 trillion calculations per second, placing it among the 20 fastest computers in the world...
Adding another chapter to the epic debate over the relative value of the open-source Linux operating system, the Yankee Group has released a report stating that switching from Windows to Linux can be up to four times as costly and take three times as long as upgrading from one version of Windows to ...
As 2003 dawned, Linux seemed poised to take off. However, in March, SCO sued IBM for allegedly using its proprietary Unix code without compensation. Industry experts have expressed skepticism about the suit, but at the same time, research firm Gartner has cautioned clients against embarking on full-...
A little over a year ago, an international consortium of four vendors announced they were pooling their talents and resources to create UnitedLinux -- a new, standardized flavor of the open-source Linux OS. However, UnitedLinux has not made many headlines since then, and SCO, one of the consortium m...
You hear it all the time: "You can't make money off free software." Actually, companies are making quite a bit of money from free software. IBM and HP, for example, have reaped billions of dollars in revenue from Linux. True, they are doing so by bundling open source software with servers and suppor...
Lured by promises of increased security, lower costs or simply the chance to align themselves with a company other than Microsoft, many enterprises are turning to Linux systems. More often than not, that means tapping Linux vendor Red Hat, which has come to dominate the market and has made its name ...
The German government has decided to move its federal, state and local agency IT systems to Linux, citing reliability issues and a desire to reduce its dependence on Microsoft. Toward this goal, the country has signed an agreement with IBM, which will provide related hardware, software and services ...
Sun Microsystems has released its new StarOffice suite of applications, touting the package as an alternative to proprietary software and noting that StarOffice has fewer licensing restrictions. With enterprise pricing as low as $25, StarOffice 6.0 can run on Linux, Solaris and Windows and will reta...
Open-source based software solutions provider TurboLinux has expanded its international operations by opening offices in the United Kingdom and Latin America
Linux vendor SuSE announced this week that it has tapped outsource solutions provider Digital River, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRIV) to turn its online information portal into an e-commerce site
Open-source software solutions developer Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) announced yesterday that it will work with Intel's recently-established Internet Service Provider (ISP) Program to foster development through product, service and support offerings
Lineo, Inc., formerly known as Caldera Thin Clients, has announced an agreement with MeterNet Corp. that is designed to power the set-top TV Internet access market with the Linux operating system (OS)
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