Prejudices and opinions aside, at some point in your career you'll be asked to select a viable Linux distribution for your corporate network. How will you choose? Here are 5 ways.

Vyatta, the feisty open source startup that is trying to take router market share from Cisco and Juniper - is getting an injection of $10 million today. The $10 million is Vyatta's 'C' round of financing and is led by Citrix Systems. That's a decent sized investment from my point of view.

When Canonical first released its Ubuntu operating system, the world couldn’t have cared less. Here was another Linux flavor taking its place in the dark, damp and reserved corner of the operating systems covenant.

Novell Inc, the the No. 2 publicly held maker of Linux software, said on Friday it has no plans to sell itself after an analyst said the company's finance chief considered the idea.

Like many multinational corporations, Microsoft has embraced social networking as a means of making customers feel like participants, not just end users, in a Microsoft community.  When it comes to community-building, however, Microsoft is fighting an uphill battle against the open-source world, which was built around social networking before it was called social networking.

HP has long had a love/hate affair with Linux. On the one hand, HP has long supported Linux on servers. On the other hand, it took HP forever to finally start shipping pre-installed desktop Linux.

Distributor claims public sector take up of open source software is helping to drive takeup

Few people realize it, but a certain software company has generated $136 million in Linux-oriented sales during the past four quarters. Plus, the mystery company’s Linux sales essentially doubled in 2Q 2009. Impressive. So why isn’t this mystery company a Wall Street darling?