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IBM envisions a greater role for mobile devices, thin clients, and other embedded systems in enterprise computing. It has announced a "client model" enabling customers to deploy, manage, and provision business applications and data to client devices such as shop-floor terminals, PDAs, and cell phones, and to traditional thick clients.

Victoria-based Remora Technologies has announced it will be offering a range of locally supported Linux and Solaris Notebooks in Australia, according to the company's media release.

While many Red Hat users progressed from Red Hat's versions 7 through 9 into Fedora or Enterprise Linux, some individuals and firms may have been too highly leveraged with production servers to just drop everything and migrate to new operating system installs.

Linux and open source acquisition costs are a fraction of comparable proprietary options, but those savings are often offset by high integration, maintenance and support costs. However, that shouldn't sway enterprise CIOs and CTOs from using open source, a recent Forrester Research Inc. report says.

Before we begin, here's what XFce's website has to say about itself: XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. It's based on the GTK+ toolkit version 2.

Robust D2D support, data protection on intermittently attached systems and "Synchronization Module" are key deliverables

Red Hat Linux’s enterprise desktop is already on the market and the announcement of the company’s return to the desktop was mostly spin. According to Lineox the enterprise desktop software is just a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 with some program packages removed and some added.

Open source software represented by the Linux operating system still faces great difficulties in becoming a booming business in the next few years, despite its fast growth and support from the Chinese Government, said a senior industrial analyst.

Tony Yustein, CEO of SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc., outlined during a press conference Tuesday why the company chose to change its dedication from Microsoft technology. "Close to 70 per cent of all of the Web sites today are hosted on a Linux platform. Windows market share has eroded from a high 35 per cent in mid 2002 to the current level of 21 per cent," Yustein said. "It appears that Microsoft has lost their focus and drive specifically for this market."

Microsoft has filed a new complaint against Lindows, Inc. in Dutch courts, despite a product name change and corresponding website name change to Linspire. Microsoft has asked the court to levy a 100,000 Euro per day fine against the operating system competitor. A hearing on this request will be held on May 11, 2004.

Open-source company JBoss on Monday said Intel has joined other investors in its recent $10 million round of funding.

Another brief discussion on the lkml looked into the complaint that a Linux server can occasionally bog down paging data in and out of swap. This time, the proposed solution was the usage of a userland dynamic swap creation daemon, such as swapd or dynswapd. The latter's home page explains, "dynamically de/activates swap files and partitions as required, creating and deleting swap files as necessary." Unfortunately, as Paul Jackson points out, there is little gained for the average user as hard drive space is inexpensive and any amount of swap can usually be allocated permanently.

Open source and patents will collide in the courts predicts a new white paper released by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, or AdTI...

Late last month, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio provoked some pretty harsh rhetoric on open source community sites with a report on her organization's survey on the major operating systems currently used in businesses. While rabid Linux advocates might not be thrilled, realists should be jumping for joy.

One day while doing my daily browsing through the web, I came across a message board post that was in response to a Linux zealot's rant. It went a little something like this, "If Linux had the market share of Windows, and Windows was the underdog you would be saying how great, and easy to use Windows is, and how it just works." My first reaction was of anger and dismissal, "Linux is open source Linux uses protected memory..." But the more I thought about it the more it disturbed me because I knew it was true. What do you do when you think an opinion you have may be in jeopardy of being wrong? You compare the facts and sort out the myths.

By carefully taking into account the nature of the products and services being provided by the organization, the revenue models for providing those products and services, and the culture of the organization's developers and programmers, you can develop an open-source policy that meets the unique needs of your organization.

This latest release from the 1.4 branch features only bug fixes (no new features) and will be mainly of interest to developers building products from the stable branch. Most end-users will want Mozilla 1.6 or the upcoming Mozilla 1.7.

What an exciting KDE summer! Release dude Coolo is planning the KDE 3.3 release for just 3 days before "aKademy" starts: The release plan was published on Saturday for discussion! Developers should make sure to get the stuff listed they plan to have ready for 3.3 in the planned-features document as soon as possible. KDE 3.3 Alpha is prepared around May 23rd and June 1st will see the first freeze (excluding outstanding listed features and i18n strings) kicking in.

Astaro Corp. today announced availability of Version 5 of its Astaro Security Linux, which now includes Intrusion Protection and added Virus Protection for HTTP and http://FTP...Available immediately from Astaro solution partners, licenses start at $390 for 10 users.

The University of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design Institute Open Source conference opened Sunday with a three-hour session on Free and Open Source Software as a social movement with Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Project leading it off.