After promising to invest more than US$1 billion in Linux, Big Blue says software and system sales have proved more than lucrative.
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Oracle has announced the availability of its Oracle Database 11g on the Linux platform and new capabilities for its Enterprise Edition offering.
Novell has released new software that could boost Linux's glitz and glamour at a time when eye candy is a major feature of rival operating systems.
A leading OpenBSD programmer has accused Sun Microsystems of hindering development of the open-source software for its newer computers, causing Sun to scramble to cooperate with the project in response.
In this candid interview with ZDNet.com.au, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses why he thinks rival VMWare will fail, how the financial crisis will be good for open source, and why cloud computing will be the future.
The long-awaited KDE4 is finally out the door after an extended gestation and a rescheduled launch date. In this inside look at KDE4, we see what all the fuss is about.
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.
Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.
IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.
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