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Embedded Linux enabled engineers at Zultys to incorporate an astonishing range of functions and features in the new Zip 4x5 phone. Alongside VoIP features impressive in their own right, the 4x5 offers an integrated VPN router, switch, firewall, and analog phone. But wait -- there's more!

HP's enterprise assault with SuSE for desktops and notebooks is no problem, says Redmond. Microsoft has said that it is unconcerned by Hewlett Packard's plan to offer Linux on business PCs.

In a bid to turn potential interest into action, Linux support shops such as IBM (Quote, Chart) and Timesys are trying to nudge customers off the fence about whether to switch. In the process, they have their eye on Windows NT, which is being phased out as an older enterprise operating system, as a potential in for Linux. For example, IBM has been touting its Windows-to-Linux roadmap. And Timesys has rolled out five white papers discussing the 2.6 kernel.

I call her ITina, short for IT in a Box IT-100. She's a petite little number, smaller than my laptop computer, stylishly cased in grey and adorned with colorful LEDs. She's a Linux-based server with a wide range of capabilities. Though she's a classy package, she's neither high-priced, at $1,395, nor high-maintenance.

It might have seemed to be the best possible week for boosters of the Linux open-source operating system. As their nemesis, Microsoft Corp., was getting sanctioned by Europe for anticompetitive trespasses, computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. gave Linux a new vote of confidence, and the largest Linux distributor posted strong financial results.

Are you tired of using third-party tools to send out routine notifications and emails to your clients? Or, do you want to send your newsletters with individual names of people in the beginning. This series of articles helps you achieve this.

Confluence, a declarative programming language that generates RTL code, C language models, and formal verification models, is now available under the GNU General Public License. The new Confluence 0.9 release also adds executable simulation models, automatic HTML documentation, and a new standard library.

This is the last installment in our look at Linux, open source and free software...Today's open source movement, while harboring some who would follow Stallman to the barricades, is generally business-friendly. Your business, and your Windows network, can be "open source friendly," too.

VIA has released under the GPL a software development kit (SDK) and sample Red Hat Linux 9 application exploiting the Padlock Advanced Cryptography Engine (Padlock ACE) embedded in newer VIA processors. VIA says its PadLock ACE technology uses an advanced PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) public key model and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption to enable the creation of ultra-secure pathways between users.

Linux isn't just making the news pages in the USA and Europe, it is just as prominent elsewhere - as the following item from the Indian Express Group's flagship newspaper, The Indian Express, illustrates.

Novell plans to overtake Red Hat as the world's biggest distributor of Linux.

Melbourne-based open source solutions provider Cybersource has taken aim at the small and medium enterprise market with an offering that will provide all the server needs of such businesses for under $2000.

PHP Development Team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.3.5. This is primarily a bug fix release, without any new features or additions.PHP 4.3.5 is by far the most stable release of PHP to date and it is recommended that all users upgrade to this release whenever possible.

With the release of the 2.6 kernel, Linux's position in the embedded world has been cemented.

Will open source become the predominant development model for software? "It's just a matter of time," Lotus founder Mitch Kapor told an audience of software developers this morning.

Greenpeace UK has updated its IT systems and chosen to use Linux in three of its four systems because it was the 'sensible' choice

William Shakespeare convincingly argued that when it comes to roses and matters of the heart, nomenclature is superfluous - because that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. However, the Bard would have to concur that, for best results, the technology industry should demand rather more clarity in its definitions.

“Love, Peace and Linux,” an IBM banner proclaims at New York’s Times Square. Across the seven seas and 13 rivers, in the land of the Mahatma, Linux is engulfing India’s computing environment thus creating lot of discomfort to companies like Microsoft.

Hewlett-Packard Co says it is yielding to large clients' demands and expanding Linux distribution -- a decision that could force Microsoft to reconsider some of its corporate pricing for Windows. HP announced a wider partnership on Wednesday with Novell Inc and plans to package its SuSE version of Linux with computers bound for corporate clients.

The acquisition of Hamburg, Germany-based SuSe by Novell in 2003 paved the way for Linux developers, and the larger open source community of which they're a part, to move into the world of mainstream computing.