When it comes to businesses using open source software, medium and large enterprises seem to get most of the press. However, small office/home office (SOHO) setups with 10 employees or less may see even greater benefit from switching to open source applications.

Despite warnings about loss of privacy, security, reliability, and accountability, vendors are in a headlong rush into the "cloud" and reduce computing to something like the old-fashioned telephone network: smart network, dumb user interfaces. Red Hat is positioning itself to jump on the cloud bandwagon; is it any better when it's an open source company?

The recession is proving to be an opportune time for Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) as it continues to grow revenues and earnings. According to Red Hat executives, the growth is coming at the expense of rivals and as a result of customer confidence in the abilities of Linux and Red Hat's JBoss middleware platform. The growth of Red Hat's business is not however a sign of bloat.

Hewlett-Packard is making an effort to support non-commercial Linux distributions on its servers and other vendors' business hardware. But you wouldn't know it from the black hole of fanfare regarding its new collaborative portal.

Canonical's relationship with Dell has faced intense scrutiny in recent months, but the partners showed unity today by unveiling Ubuntu Moblin Remix Developer Edition. The offering, based on Moblin version 2, is optimized for Dell's Inspiron Mini 10v netbook. Here are some more details plus some anaylsis of the Canonical-Dell relationship.

Novell's distribution line in Britain is cut by 25%

The potential impact on the ability of users, developers and IT departments to consume cloud services via a common set of tools is, according to Brian Stevens, Red Hat's CTO, "epic."