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Linux has gained further credibility in the enterprise after most IT managers said that they would consider the open source operating system as a platform for email. Over half of respondents to a recent survey indicated that they would seriously consider switching to Linux messaging over the next two years, if there was no disruption to end users.

Reaffirming its position in the Linux space, HP today showcased its strategy for the open source community in India at Linux Bangalore/2004. HP is the Platinum Sponsor of the event.

Over the last several weeks, many readers have brought up the fact that Microsoft signed on as a sponsor of this newsletter at the beginning of November. At the same time, the last several newsletters have dealt with a report issued by a research firm that was critical of Linux.

Running a business based on open-source software is possible, as we found out when we interviewed Steven Noels, a Belgian consultant and member of the Apache Software Foundation

Mandrakesoft achieved an operating income of 0.86 million Euros ($1.14 million) and net income of 1.39 million Euros ($1.85 million) in Fiscal Year 2003/2004. Per share, operating income was 0,18 Euros ($0.24 per share) and net income 0.29 Euros ($0.39 per share).

In small offices and large corporate networks, IT administrators have to manage hardware and software inventory. Keeping track of manufacturers, components, devices, IP addresses, operating systems, installed software, and licenses on an ever-changing company network is time-consuming, and such information is difficult to keep up-to-date. Here are six open source products that can help you manage the task.

SugarCRM offers a suite of customer relations management software. Sugar Sales is available in both an open and a closed source edition. The closed source package, Sugar Sales Professional, includes an Outlook plug-in and some additional features not found in the open source edition. I tested Sugar Sales, the open source version, which is available under a variant of the Mozilla Public License. I found the software has a lot of good things to recommend it, but still suffers from the incompleteness of many version 1.0 products.

Venezuela, following in Brazil's footsteps, has joined the club of countries that are adopting and promoting free or open-source software, in a bid to save money, achieve technological independence, and strengthen alliances among countries of the developing South.

Assisted by IBM and lagging behind rivals Hyperion and Business Objects, Cognos has released a version of its ReportNet enterprise-reporting platform that's compatible with Linux. RedHat and Cognos will jointly market ReportNet. MySQL Might Have Jumped the Gun.

Richard Stallman, the man who coined the term "free software", and others in the community understand their biggest threat. The right a patent grants to its holder to exclude others from making, using or selling their invention is a direct contradiction to their aspiration to allow software to be freely copied, distributed and modified. Little wonder also that Microsoft has latched on to the ambiguity this issue has created. Steve Ballmer's open industry email highlighted indemnification along side costs and security as Windows' three key strengths over Linux.

Oracle and Novell announced Tuesday that Oracle's latest database, clustering, application server, collaboration solutions and enterprise applications are now available for and supported on Novell's latest enterprise Linux operating system, SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) 9.

Sybase announced it has tailored its Linux-based database to run on rival IBM's eServer OpenPower systems, providing customers more choice in the increasingly popular market for Linux systems.

Prudential Equity Group upgraded Red Hat to "overweight" from "neutral weight" and maintained a $17 target price, saying the software company remains the leader in the Linux market, which is among the fastest-growing segments in enterprise software.

While on its face the Wiki model sounds more likely to produce trustworthy information than a blog, the facelessness of Wikis give some observers pause. "With blogs, over time you can figure out who you can trust," said Dan Kennedy, media critic for the Boston Phoenix. "With the Wikipedia, you don't know who's contributing to it."

MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is unsurprised by the recent rise of commercially viable open-source companies such as his own. I wonder: Why didn't this happen sooner?" he said to silicon.com in a recent interview. Though Mickos has a long-held belief that open source is the superior software development model, it's taken the rest of the world time to catch up.

Welcome to this year's 47th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Debian flyers have been moved to Alioth for easier maintenance and contribution. Despite the upcoming release of sarge, another update to the current stable release is being prepared.

In this piece, GuyFawkes expounds on computer software, hardware, and the limits (and possibilities) of human interaction with the mechanical realities of design and fabrication with their accompanying and sometimes most annoying "laws".

Customers Can Confidently Deploy Oracle's Proven Grid Technology on Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9

The Linux Show -- an original Internet radio offering -- is shutting down. It's been part of the Linux and Internet scene for seven years, but it has run into financial difficulties and lack of sponsors make it impossible to continue.

In the market for a hybrid engine? Netscape's new Web browser might be just the ticket. As of 8 a.m. PST Tuesday, Netscape fans were test-driving a prototype Netscape browser that runs on two different browsing engines: the Mozilla Foundation's Gecko engine, which powers up the Mozilla, Firefox and older Netscape browsers, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer engine, which many consider the de facto Web standard.