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At LinuxWorld, Cendant, Citigroup, and E-Trade talk about what swayed them to open source, and what it'll take for them to expand its use.

Eben Moglen is convinced the software industry is returning to being about a free exchange of ideas and code. The lawyer for the Free Software Foundation said during a keynote at the LinuxWorld Summit that the IT world will return to a time before large businesses co-opted freely licensable software for proprietary products.

The deliberately simple nature of the Palm operating system was so inspiring to Rick Broida that in 1997 he started a magazine, Tap, dedicated to devices using the handheld operating system.

Toronto, May 25, 2005 - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (http://www.lpi.org), the premier professional certification program for the Linux community, worldwide, will offer reduced price certification testing during LinuxWorld Italy on Thursday, May 26, 2005, at the Crowne Plaza Milan Linate Hotel, in San Donato Milanese (Milan, Italy).

The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the release today of the second round of Firebird 2.0 public Alpha kits for immediate download and testing. This version of Firebird 2 is an alpha version, meant for field testing only and not for use in production.

Major open source business applications - like those that cover collaboration and enterprise resource planning (ERP) - don't seem to be making a big impression on company decision makers in 2005.

Although Linux is growing meekly when it comes to end-user usage and interaction, the overall experience of using a Linux distribution has turned out to be a positive one for numerous beginners. In recent years, Linux has made advancements in leaps and bounds, which has led to its adoption by many corporate users as well as regular desktop users. Though it’s still not in a perfect state, the rapid pace of development in numerous areas of Linux promises a bright future, nonetheless.

Novell posted a quarterly loss on restructuring charges, while revenue rose slightly from a year earlier, but shares in the software company dropped after both fell short of expectations.

Nokia is allowing open source developers to use its patented technology to develop the Linux operating system.

Nokia has announced its patented technology may be freely used in the Linux kernel, making the Finnish mobile phone giant the newest computing company to begin offering intellectual property protections to open source programmers.

Some of you may already know that Vmware does not install on Slackware Linux without some serious coaxing. Others may not. This HOWTO is aimed at the latter crowd. In other words, this HOWTO is for you. Read the full column at Mad Penguin.

Developers of the open source Linux operating system are about to lose a crucial software tool that lets them keep track of version changes. The loss could delay Linux development and even make the operating system more vulnerable to security breaches.

Red Hat will release the Netscape directory technology it acquired last November as open source next week, according to a report. The move gives Red Hat and other Linux distributors an open-source challenger to proprietary systems such as Microsoft's Active Directory, Sun Java Enterprise and particularly Novell's eDirectory.

In the same theme of mixed commercial and free software - LAMP and Java developers and administrators may find a welcome convenience in leanring about blueglue from Open Logic.

Enterprise Linux users at the New York conference say their switch to the open-source operating system brought big cost savings and reliable security. But what are the risks?

In 2003, John Hansknecht, the director of technology at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, had a tough decision to make. The school had about a hundred older computers running Microsoft Office 97 and Windows NT, and some kind of upgrade was clearly required. It would have been an easy decision to simply upgrade to Microsoft Office 2000, but that would have required replacing all the computers with more powerful systems -- a large expenditure which could be better spent on other technology needs. Hansknecht had a better idea: OpenOffice.org.

A company official tells LinuxWorld Summit attendees that using open source in the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet brought quality components and strong overall architecture.

Fast, cheap and reliable, Linux is here in the enterprise; where are you?

In this entertaining yet edifying essay, Viosoft Founder/CEO Hieu Tran sets out on a quest to debug a bug-report filed against his company's source-level debugger. The case leads Tran and his trusty Pomeranian toward a surprising, Sherlock Holmes-like epiphany illuminating the semantic assumptions made by compilers, debuggers, and, especially, users.

Fighting spam in a corporate environment has become a significant annoyance. Software remedies such as SpamAssassin work decently, but require a lot of training before they become effective -- then they need to be re-trained as new spam hits the net. Even then there are false positives with some anti-spam solutions, which can be worse than the problem it's meant to fix. In addition to spam, there are email-borne viruses, Trojan horses, and other dangers to cope with. These problems require more software, which has to be monitored and configured. Wouldn't it be better to have a hardware device that you can just plug into your network and take care of it all for you? I've just spent a week with one such device: Solinus' MailFoundry 1100 email filtering device.