On Wednesday, Aug. 6, Oracle Corp. launched a new Linux partnership program and announced 15 new Linux partners at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Although Oracle has thousands of partners, it created a special partnership program...
Oracle wants to run its clients' entire stack. It wants to be one throat to choke. It wants an unbreakable contract. Oracle's announcements concentrated on the large enterprises that have become its specialty by Dana Blankenhorn
NEW YORK - When Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. brought out the Eee PC last year, it created a whole new category of tiny, cheap laptops. Despite its success, the computer had one confounding element: Its keyboard was really...
Posted by Jason Perlow @ 8:02 am Where’s the hot chicks? Ok, so we still have INTEROP and CeBIT but still, does anyone really care as much about those shows anymore now that we have excellent dissemination of marketing and demo...
Just about everyone, it seems, is on a mission August 7, 2008 (Computerworld) SAN FRANCISCO -- William Hughey, an independent Linux and open source developer in Bainbridge Island, Wash., was here this week to explore his ideas...
Yahoo/PC Magazine: "What's holding Linux back? When asked what they would have the Linux community improve, all three OEM representatives named power management. HP's Mann added the lack of good wireless support. John Hull,...
Thursday August 7, 8:00 am ET SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zimbra has announced that Canonical, sponsors of Ubuntu, the fastest growing Linux distribution, will give users direct access to Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, which...
Posted by Dennis Sellers Aug 7, 2008 at 7:31am Gravity Applications has released Searchlight (US$99), which lets users search their Macs from all machines at their office or home, and even from their iPhones. It has an AJAX...
A fast, fast-booting, implementation of GNOME aimed at netbooks and older hardware has emerged, and shows "a lot of promise." LXDE has already stacked up a heap of commercial partners, including gOS, a distribution favored by...
A tiny embedded development startup called Linuxstamp is shipping a tiny open-source computer comprised of only six integrated circuits (ICs). Demonstrated this week at LinuxWorld's "Linux Garage" exposition on a Linux- and...