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How's this for back-to-school fashion: More than 20,000 Indiana students are now Linux-enabled under a state grant program to roll out low-cost, easy-to-manage workstations, which are running various flavors of the open-source operating system.

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The head of Microsoft's open source software lab has extended a helping hand to Mozilla Corp. if it's interested in making sure the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client run under Windows Vista.

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Disagreements over what should be included in the free software license's next version have pitted the movement's leaders against each other

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The open-source movement, which has long made inroads into corporations via Linux and other enterprise-level software, now has a potentially bigger target in its cross hairs: the PBXs and network routers from companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. that form

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Red Hat shares plunged 24% to close at $14.83 on Nasdaq, suffering the company's biggest one-day share drop since the open source Linux software distributor went public in 1999.

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Solaris is Sun's version of the Unix operating system. Schwartz has said that, since Sun opened up the code to Solaris, some 70 percent of Solaris downloads are installed on servers made by rivals Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc. and IBM.

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is determined to shape Linux's future, and he's not waiting for someone to ask his opinion. In a sign of the central role of Linux in Oracle's future, Ellison said this week that Oracle will strip the Red Hat trademarks and symbol

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What Oracle did wasn't without precedent, but it crossed a line that some parts of the open source community saw as violating the spirit of the technology. The service businesses of technology giants such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard have offered support fo

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Microsoft is partnering with Zend Technologies, whose founders were integral in creating the open-source PHP language. PHP runs some of the world’s most popular blogs and the Wikipedia website.

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The entire concept of making code freely accessible for others to view, use and even modify would appear to clash totally with the commercial software strategy of SAP. So why is the world’s largest vendor of business software so interested in open sourc

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Linux and Open Source Blog: Ten reasons Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows

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The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and GlassFish reference implementation (currently open-sou

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In all the blah-de-blah over the moves by Oracle and Microsoft into open source a very important point is missing, namely the motivation of enterprises in moving toward open source. It's not the cost savings. It's not the community. It's not the name of t

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Bill Hilf is trying to convince open-source developers that they can work with and not just against the software giant

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Analysis of Sun's release of Java under the GPL 2.0.

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Deal with Novell may have been motivated by need to avoid infringement claims.

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Group of vendors holding open-source patents challenges Microsoft.

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The data is based on surveys and customer interviews.

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