To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 high quality free Linux eCommerce applications. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to set up their own online shop.

Is there a formula for what open source software should cost? Maybe not, but open source vendors should endeavor to make pricing transparent

Zack Urlocker of MySQL fame was at the Stanford Accel Symposium earlier this week and, along with some other open-source heavyweights, participated on a panel that attempted to cull some lessons learned in building open-source businesses.

ThinkFree deal allows the open source Phoenix HyperSpace Shell to work with Microsoft Word and Excel file formats

Being in the security business, I am constantly surprised by how many companies continue to rely on security practices that they know to be poor.

It may be open source, but Linux has frequently required corporate support, including from the proprietary software market.

Which companies haven't made virtualization announcements this year? Not to be left out of the coverage of the recent virtualization collaboration announcements, which seem to be all the rage these days, Novell and VMware have announced an agreement which will allow for independent software vendors to create fully supported custom virtual appliances built with Suse Linux [...]

For the quarter, Novell's sales fell by 7 per cent to $214.9m and were hurt by a dramatic drop off in software license sales, which fell by 29.7 per cent to $28.3m. Services sales at the company fell even more dramatically, down 31.7 per cent to $27.8m.