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VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) is being heavily hyped these days. Systems come in various sizes, supporting anywhere from 25 to 1,200 users across multiple locations, time zones, and continents, and open source products are available across the spectrum. The reason for adopting VoIP is simple: the cost savings involved with putting voice and data on the same network. The argument for open source in VoIP is similarly simple: solutions that make use of open source software are less expensive than traditional PBX or Centrex systems and proprietary VoIP solutions.

This week is the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, and that means press releases galore. Your editor is going to be picky and choosy about what is presented in the newswire, but indeed look for an abundance of press releases in the coming days.

Review of Linux Kernel Reveals No Infringement of Court-Validated Software Patents; 283 Issued But Not Yet Court-Validated Patents a Conceivable Risk

Wyse to Collaborate withOther OSDL Members to Advance Linux Desktop Initiatives

Leader in Server-Centric Computing Taps AMD Geode(TM) GX 533@1.1W* Processor for Linux Thin Clients

Leader in Server-Centric Computing Delivers Most Advanced, High-Performance, Modular Thin Client Device Available With Linux

The growing normalcy of Linux in corporate computing realm will be on display this week at a show devoted to the open-source operating system.

Program harnesses power of the open source community to identify security vulnerabilities before they are exploited

Longtime Microsoft partner Unisys has begun offering Linux from Red Hat and Novell on its multiprocessor servers, a change of heart that reflects a new seriousness about the open-source operating system.

Sun Microsystems is toying with the idea of buying Linux seller Novell, saying that springing for the $2.64 billion company would hurt rival IBM.

Open Source Risk Management, who offers litigation insurance policies, has found nearly 300 patents that could theoretically be used against Linux. How risky are these patents? How much should you be concerned?

Linux potentially infringes 283 patents, including 27 held by Microsoft but none that have been validated by court judgments, according to a group that sells insurance to protect those using or selling Linux against intellectual-property litigation.

Following are some of the notable technology-related events scheduled for the week of Aug. 1.

The proposed operating-system migration of the City of Munich's 14,000 desktops from Microsoft to Linux was placed in jeopardy Friday, when a Munich alderman petitioned the Bavarian city's mayor to examine the status of software patents in the European Community.

In this Internet jungle, now, also Linux Netwosix has its own IRC Support Channel. After Netwosix-Bugzilla, created to improve the reliability of our OpenSource software, is now available the first official virtual community of Linux Netwosix. Join us today, we will be pleased to help you.

Linux on the desktop might mean freedom from software-licensing costs for some IT departments. But when it comes to evaluating desktop Linux’s TCO, it’s the human cost that is most important. According to industry research company IDC, the staff-related costs of system administration, support, development, and training typically amount to between 50 and 70 percent of the costs of the average enterprise application, when measured over a five-year period. By comparison, software costs for both client and server software total only 8 percent to 10 percent of TCO, IDC reports.

It’s one of the perennial questions facing the open source movement: Is Linux ready for the corporate desktop? Ready or not, Linux is coming.

The Oracle-IBM feud over Linux will ratchet a notch higher at LinuxWorld next week, what with the lethal anti-IBM weaponry Mike Rocha will be packing.

User experience, application availability, ease of maintenance, and stability are often chief concerns when deciding whether to deploy Linux on the desktop. For the Allied Irish Bank, however, the decision to move the 8,000 clients in the company’s U.K. retail banking network from Windows to Linux had more to do with the server than anything else.