Jacqueline Emigh

Open source development is influencing phenomena far beyond software, including manufacturing processes, classroom teaching, and the types of media now emerging online, said CollabNet CTO Brian Behlendorf, best-selling author Thomas L. Friedman, and other members of a panel of business and technology visionaries. Speaking last week at an executive summit in New York City, Behlendorf, […]

Oracle’s plans for its own Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product, announced last week, follow on the heels of Red Hat derivatives put together by dozens of open source projects, including CentOS, Pie Box, and Startcom Linux. But this week, members of the influential CentOS community voiced strong pessimism over Oracle Linux. In Q&As with […]

Beyond displaying an extensive slate of existing Linux products, vendors at last week’s InfoSecurity show pointed to possible future offerings ranging from a Linux client for a CD-ROM encryption system to a Linux-enabled all-in-one device for securing both physical access and video surveillance. In a sign of the growing convergence between information security and physical […]

To help spur the creation of a lot more applications for Linux, the Free Standards Group (FSG) and technical publishing firm O’Reilly Media have launched the Linux Standard Base (LSB) Developer Network (LDN), a developer’s network loosely modeled after the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). In an interview with LinuxPlanet, Ian Murdock, the FSB’s CTO, said. […]

Under urging from Intel Corp., TransMedia’s Glide online applications suite–an emerging competitor to Microsoft Office–will gain a Linux desktop client in January of next year plus a Linux version of its back-end infrastructure during the March 2007 timeframe. Earlier this month, TransMedia rolled out Glide 2.0, a major update to the company’s online application environment […]

Business and consumer users will soon be hooking up their Windows-based desktop and mobile PCs to more Linux-enabled devices, as witnessed by a new multimedia storage box from HP as well as the planned announcement of new wireless hardware from Symbol later this month. Somewhat hidden within HP’s launch of otherwise Windows-driven consumer products last […]

With business intelligence (BI) heading more widely into Linux these days, vendors are adding more open source componentry in a variety of places, much to the glee of users ranging from financial services firm Tradewinds to health care IT specialist Nequalsone. Traditional BI vendors such as Business Objects and Microstrategies are joining specialized start-ups such […]

As Linux steps beyond the limits of technical applications, business intelligence (BI) is one area that’s leading the way. In a rash of recent BI announcements at LinuxWorld and elsewhere, many vendors are developing new business models, while consciously giving customers a choice between Linux and other operating systems–and in some cases, between commercial and […]

When the Interop trade show unfolds in New York next month, its underlying network infrastructure will be managed and monitored by GroundWork Monitor 7, a new edition of a Linux-based software offering that mixes open source tools with unabashedly proprietary middleware. GroundWork, the company behind Monitor, targets the network monitoring system mainly at companies that […]

In a new initiative to spur more use of open source software (OSS) within the US Defense Department, the department’s Office of Advanced Systems and Concepts (AS&C) has begun teaming up with Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and AMD–along with big systems integrators and “non-traditional” open source companies–to glean insights that will help shorten […]