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A former Microsoft executive who helped shape the company's initial response to Linux has joined a company selling open-source media software.

Speaking on the eve of Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo, which begins in Sydney today, [Gartner research vice-president Bob Hayward] said 2005 would be an "interesting" year for Linux on the desktop.

While open-source software is new to the Middle Kingdom, Beijing is looking to change that. Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik explains why.

South African steel pipe and fitting merchant AIG Sales previously used a Dos-based accounting and inventory system to run its business. But a growing customer base and a need to trade electronically with customers meant the company needed to upgrade its systems. After evaluating the options, Phillips says AIG chose to work with Sage Line 500 on Linux, configured, installed and supported by Sage Enterprise Solutions authorised business partner, Unisource.

BEA Systems today claimed "significant milestones" in its open source efforts including code releases, updated tools and additional support for its Apache Beehive web applications and services development platform.

The Knoppix LiveCD GNU/Linux distribution is a valuable tool for such tasks as Web browsing, system administration, enthusiast experimentation and tinkering, and free software advocacy. "Knoppix Hacks," written by Kyle Rankin and published by O'Reilly, is a companion book to Knoppix that includes a CD of Knoppix 3.4 2004-05-17. It's a fine complement to a useful distribution.

Sun Microsystems plans to announce a free version of its Solaris operating system Monday, taking a page that Red Hat tore from its playbook in 2003.

SCO and BASIS Participate in Co-Marketing Program to Provide Joint Software Solutions for Customers

Tom has reviewed the Novell Linux Desktop, a new desktop for enterprise customers.

The abrupt resignation of Novell Vice Chairman Chris Stone this month may have a negative impact on the company's relationships with the open-source and Linux communities.

Here at NewsForge, we have explored "What to do if you're involved in a code theft dispute." In that article, we made the assumption that the involved parties are ethical and professional. In this story, we'll examine a specific and well-documented situation in which unfounded accusations were leveled against a free software project, describe the tactics used by such assailants, and explain how to successfully deflect these attacks and diffuse the situation.

Red Hat last week released Fedora Core 3, the latest version of its cutting-edge Linux distribution, including a redesigned version of Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux). While the software is aimed at developers and enthusiasts, it is seen as a testing ground for technologies that can later be built into the enterprise distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). SE Linux is a case in point: Red Hat and other SE Linux developers have used the feedback from the version included in Fedora Core 2 to make the system more usable in the real world.

In the near future, what trends can we anticipate within the software sector? It seems that you can’t read the table of contents in a technology-related trade magazine these days and not find an article about the growing open-source software phenomenon. So why is there a for-profit interest in a topic that’s most often associated with the word FREE?

Mobile News Trolltech, provider of leading technologies for Linux and cross-platform software development, has announced that Motorola has chosen Trolltech's Qt/Embedded Linux development platform as the foundation for its upcoming E680 and A780 mobile phones. The E680 and A780 represent the latest in a series of handsets Motorola is building on the Trolltech/Linux platform, following the Motorola A760 phone announced last year.

ZDNet Australia is reporting that Microsoft does not believe Mozilla Firefox is a threat to Internet Explorer. Steve Vamos, who heads the software giant's Austrialian operation, does not believe IE's market share is under attack from Firefox. "I'm not sure that that is the reality," he said. "I have seen comments around that but there is nothing I can refer to that really supports that." Vamos admitted that he has never used Firefox.

PC Welt, the German computer magazine, claims that Microsoft has shipped its popular Windows Media Player with sound files that are edited with an illegal copy of SoundForge, a commercially available Sony program for manipulating audio.

Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) has started a debate on a bill to implement “free software” in government institutions ... the proposal was introduced October 21 by AN deputy Luis Tascon and urges the five independent branches of Government: Executive, Legislative, Judiciary, Moral and Electoral including all official entities to adopt free software as an exclusive working platform via the GNU/Linux operative system.

Voyager Capital has become the first I.T. venture capital firm to join the Open Source Development Labs, a non-profit organization that promotes the growth and adoption of Linux. Venture capitalists are showing an increasing level of interest in open source software firms.

In a deal aimed at helping corporate IT decision-makers feel more comfortable about moving to open-source software offerings, Hewlett-Packard Co. will now provide first-call support for JBoss Inc.'s open-source application server.

Seeks Damages for Anticompetitive Microsoft Business Practices in 1994-96 Period