Open-Xchange, an open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, continues to gain momentum in Europe and North America. The latest example: Bull, a massive consulting firm in Paris, is offering SaaS and on-premises Open-Xchange to its end customers in Germany. Here are the details.
Read more »Open-Xchange Scores Another Big Open Source SaaS Win
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CloudLinux OS Set to Surface At Parallels Summit
The VAR Guy is booked to meet software giants and disruptive upstarts at Parallels Summit 2010 in Miami. Among the anticipated meetings: A sit-down with Cloud Linux Inc. founder and CEO Igor Seletskiy. The big question: Does the hosting world really need yet another Linux distribution?
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Tips to help users migrate to OpenOffice
The office suite. Ah the importance you hold over the PC user. You help our business to flow, you help us to draft our papers and novels, and you help us communicate. But what of those users who previously were using Microsoft Office or any other office suite?
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Oracle Still To Make OpenSolaris Changes
One of the open-source projects that Oracle hasn't been too open about their intentions with has been OpenSolaris. Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) already closed up last month and there hasn't been too much information flowing out about the next OpenSolaris release.
Read more »VMware vs. Red Hat
Red Hat is making plans to beef up its virtualization management software so it can compete with VMware on a more equal footing in the future.
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Sendmail sets record growth in 2009
Sendmail Inc, the company behind the Sendmail Consortium and open source Sendmail mail transfer agent (MTA), has announced that it set record results for is fiscal year 2009
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Ubuntu for the US authorities
American IT firm Autonomic Resources has been given the go-ahead to supply the US authorities with Canonical's Ubuntu and Landscape products
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Novell and Citrix to collaborate on virtualisation
Novell and Citrix have announced a new collaboration deal aimed at increasing virtualisation interoperability
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Need a job? Learn Drupal
The lack of new jobs continues to be an issue even for San Francisco Bay Area tech companies. So, how are unemployed developers and technologists supposed to find work? One solution: learn new skills.
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HipChat Instant Messaging for Small Business
HipChat aims to provide a happy medium with its business-focused hosted instant messaging service that supports up to 100 people. Although the communication features are limited to text - there's no voice or video as with many IM services - HipChat is simple to set up, easy to use, and the price tag shouldn't make a serious dent in the company coffers.
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Corporate IT won't run Linux desktops because of the 'Skype attitude'
Skype's attitude to Linux desktop users is frankly disturbing. Take a look at the chart of software issues for the Skype client...
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How CloudLinux OS Intends to Compete with Red Hat, Novell
A few days ago, The VAR Guy openly wondered how CloudLinux OS - a new Linux distribution designed for hosting providers - hopes to stand out in a market dominated by Red Hat, Novell and several other emerging options.
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Novell: Linux finally breaks even
Well, that only took six years and change. As part of its discussion of its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 ended in January, Dana Russell, chief financial officer at operating system and systems software maker Novell, said that the SUSE Linux business was at break-even, what he called "a significant milestone."
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Windows server revenue outpaced Linux in Q4
In Gartner's assessment of the server market in the fourth quarter of 2009, X64 servers and blades in particular were singled out as the growth engines. With IDC's similar, but different, report Thursday we learn that the Windows platform was the real beneficiary of the bump in sales.
Read more »Novell: Still Looking for its Mojo
Novell’s latest quarterly financial results, revealed today, were a mixed bag for the SUSE Linux provider. Novell made progress in some areas. But didn’t really thrive in others. Where does the company go from here? The answers will likely surface at the Novell BrainShare. Here are the details.
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