[Dell] could hardly do better than to buy Red Hat, or possibly Sun or Novell, for two reasons. The first is that buying Red Hat might be the least painful option for Dell getting into software in earnest, as it would offer Dell a close analog to what it has done to hardware: a commoditized software business that depends heavily on low-cost assembly and distribution.

Open-source software is quietly gaining ground well beyond the data center.

What's ahead in the coming year? Open source giants' latest releases and security- and energy-conscious networks, to start!

While commercial Linux distributor Red Hat has not grown enough to justify the ridiculous valuations that Wall Street put on the company when it went public a decade ago, the company is more or less on track to break $1bn in sales in the next couple years.

When you say 'open source', you may be clear about what you mean. However, others are twisting the term for their own ends, says open-source expert Mark Taylor.

Browser security seems to be a big issue this week. First we had the IE patch drama, then comes a dust-up over whether Firefox is fit for enterprise use. The Mozilla browser topped enterprise app whitelister Bit9's list of popular apps with security vulnerabilities. Why? One major reason was because Firefox typically relies on the end-user to allow updates and new patches.

I’ve been hearing a lot from open source software vendors about internationalization and more specifically, localization of their software by, logically, local community members and contributors that take the code and run with it in Japanese, Russian, Spanish and a variety of other languages in places all over the globe.

The Indian Express migrates to Red Hat (press release and amusing videos)