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The hottest technology for implementing mobile services is the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). This article discusses the advantages of working with the open source gateway for WAP, which performs the protocol conversion between a Web server and a mobile phone.

More companies are using the threat of Linux when negotiating deals with Microsoft, one of the company's senior executives has admitted.

Recently Red Hat announced that it was still in the corporate desktop market, despite having handed off its former desktop product to the Fedora project last September. The new Red Hat Desktop is not available as a standalone product, but as a part of Red Hat's Starter Pack and Extension Pack. The first release picks up exactly where Red Hat Linux 9 (RH9) left off, which is both good and bad.

Although some Linux antivirus software is now available, vendors are waiting for a major attack before pushing their wares.

The best way to get a great deal with Microsoft may be to say you're seriously considering Linux - which is why Microsoft spent Thursday dispelling the 'myth' of open source.

Dual boot FC1 & FC2, FedoraTracker improvements, work on Fedora Legacy, testing of an FC2 LiveCD, the RULE project for minimal installs is spiffy again... And the usual Fedora Core 2 issue round-up, and how to further performance tune Fedora. Touching on some Fedora documentation available, with an outlook of Fedora Core 3, this issue is brimming with links.

The popularity continues to grow for Linux as an enterprise server operating system, as well as a platform for running large database servers.

Ah, they said, but you see we couldn't then indemnify the code. Oh? I am, I said, unaware of any situation in which Microsoft makes good damages to a company if its software fails at the wrong time. That's not what they mean by "indemnify". They mean: they couldn't guarantee that all the code in Windows was valid (insecure, but valid). Besides, intellectual property is all we have in the way of corporate assets, other than maybe our people.

Bruce Perens writes "A recent report by Ken Brown of the "Alexis de Toqueville Institute" casts aspersions upon Linus Torvalds as creator of the Linux operating system kernel. The report attributes ownership of Linux to Prentice Hall PTR as publishers of Andrew Tannenbaum's book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. In the book, Tannenbaum provided the source for an educational toy OS called Minix.

Users of the MySQL open source database will soon have the option of calling Hewlett-Packard for support as the systems vendor extends its US-lead decision to Australia.

Part four: In the final part of this series of articles in response to Eric Raymond, an examination of whether a hybrid model is the way forward

Novell chose this week to showcase one of the success stories it has notched up since acquiring SUSE LINUX from SuSE GmbH last year: the IT systems of McDonald's restaurants throughout Germany are now Linux-based.

When an Albany-based cardiology practice announced they moved to Linux last year, headlines touted the move as an affirmation for the use of open source software. Having a large medical practice with locations in Massachusetts and New York entrust medical records to Linux was a resounding nod to the cost savings and security that has become increasingly associated with the Linux platform. But the real story -- the one that is even more important to end users and IT managers -- is the ROI CCA has realized in their move from proprietary Windows to open source Linux. Dr. Martin Echt and Jordan Rosen reveal the details of CCA's Linux implementation in the full presentation, from their talk at April's Real World Linux trade show held in Canada. Among their key findings, summarized in the article below, Echt and Rosen found that CCA's Linux thin client savings exceeded 37% in just 8 mos. They provide a detailed cost analysis of their migration to Linux . . .