Maybe more than you think, so don't jump ship if you're already using reliable alternatives, like VxWorks or QNX. Those might actually be cheaper in the long run.

Gateway has announced they plan to launch a Web Pad by this Christmas featuring

a Transmeta chip and Linux.

Microsoft.NET shows that Microsoft knows that the future lies in Web-enabled applications. It also signals the death knell for Windows. If you were doing some mission-critical work via a Web browser wouldn't you choose Linux.

Linux would be perfect if it ran MS Office but the same problems that plague Windows also come with Microsoft Office.

IBM is working with developers to make applications portable between 64bit Linux and its next-generation 64bit Unix operating system, codenamed Monterey/64.

Linux SMP support has been smoothed out in the stable kernel since the release of 2.2 and dual Celeron 533s plus a motherboard can be obtained for less than $330 USD. So what does that mean for your next system purchase?

One of the things that make the open source movement so unusual is that as it has developed over the last twenty years or so, it has done little self-documenting.

The IBM developer kit for Linux, Java 2 Technology Edition, version 1.3 is a development kit and runtime environment that contains IBM's just-in-time compiler,

enhanced with a unique mixed mode interpreter and a re-engineered Java 2 virtual machine.

If Chinese consumers wanted an operating system, they had to fork over the money. As an alternative, they have been developing Linux, which is not only safe, stable and user friendly but, most importantly, it's free.

LINUX is a powerful, scalable and reliable operating system that is well suited for the Indian environment. What makes it ideally suited for the Indian enterprise?