Last year, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik thought Sun Microsystems\' open source-based alternative to Microsoft\'s widely used Office software would encourage broader use of the Linux operating system on desktops and perhaps loosen the iron grip of Windows.

Open source interest groups have been putting pressure on national governments to make the move to open source products. Debate over the issue is active in New Zealand, Germany, Mexico, and Taiwan, to name just a few.

Four distibution companies--SuSE, Caldera, TurboLinux, and Conectiva--are planning to formally announce the formation of a single UnitedLinux distribution, which is tentatively planned to be released at the end of 2002.

Everyone knows about Linux on IBM Intel servers, most people know that IBM is doing well positioning Linux on mainframes, but few people know that IBM is also pushing Linux on the mid-range AS/400 (iSeries) lines.

In his first interview since the UnitedLinux announcement, Caldera chief executive Ransom Love explains how the project will work, and why the Red Hat question is in fact a red herring.

The \'Ready for Real Business\' Linux roadshow, hosted by IBM and featuring speakers and demonstrations of Linux technology from around the Middle East, will open in Bahrain on Sunday.

Over the past few weeks, a new type of trade war has been brewing in a number of smaller, poorer countries around the world. Country after country has begun to evaluate whether to mandate Open Source software for government agencies and schools. Microsoft has fought back with its own form of free programs. However, countries comparing Open Source to Microsoft programs are considering a lot of other factors completely unrelated to the technical merits of the two platforms.

Since Joe Barr\'s article criticized my dealings with SIGLINUX, I would like to set the record straight about what actually occurred, and state my reasons.

The IA64 processor family is the fruit of a common effort between HP and Intel to introduce a replacement for the venerable but outdated Intel386 platform. The IA64 was designed from the ground up for excellent performance in the server environment as well as in the workstation space.

Reuters will announce plans Thursday to bring its financial information software to Linux in conjunction with Red Hat, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, sources said, a major achievement for the comparatively young open-source operating system