Red Hat is up very sharply whereas Novell wobbles and disappoints

Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open source-based cloud computing will be solving many problems in the real world, open source advocates have predicted.

Open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the remainder expect to deploy it in the next year, according to research from Gartner. However, 69% of organizations don't have a formal policy for evaluating open source usage in their organizations, according to the Gartner survey. This opens up potential liabilities for intellectual property violations.

Lawyers for Amazon.com promptly served the students’ Internet service provider with a take-down notice, and on Thursday the students complied and removed the tool.

The global economic crisis is taking its toll on many technology companies and Mandriva, the Linux company based in France, has now taken a hit.

Running an open source company is not like running a proprietary company. But how different should it be? Does the difference include publicly beating your breast about mistakes both real and imagined?

UNIX is being attacked by Linux from the top and bottom ends of the market. The signs are that it is losing the battle on both fronts.

Even as the economy went into a nosedive, Wyse Technology Inc.’s thin client sales continued to climb higher. In fact, Wyse — which increasingly promotes Linux-based solutions through channel partners — says the company generated record revenue in October. How is that possible? Here’s the scoop.