Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Spanish banking giant BBVA is switching its 110,000 staff to use Google’s range of enterprise software.  The deal is the biggest that the search giant has signed with one company…

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has been showing off the first models of its XO 3 tablet at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The British government withdrew its open standards policy after lobbying from Microsoft, it has been revealed in a Cabinet Office brief leaked to Computer Weekly.

Made by British-based firm Canonical, Ubuntu TV is a free and open source interface that the company hopes manufacturers will build into forthcoming ‘smart TVs’.

Google has been working to augment its defensive patent portfolio with the intent of deflecting the litigation that has targeted its embattled Android mobile operating system. To this end, the…

With financial backing from the likes of Michael Dell and other venture capitalists, open source upstart Nginx has edged out Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) to hold the title of…

Microsoft has released an emergency patch to address a vulnerability in its web application framework ASP.NET.  The framework allows developers to build dynamic web services and applications, and Microsoft said…

New data released by NetApplications reveals that 46.5 percent of Internet traffic that showed up on its clients websites was from Windows XP. Microsoft has done its level best to…

Why will Microsoft be releasing a persistent virtual machine feature on its Azure cloud platform so users can host Linux? Because that’s what its customers want.  Microsoft’s business customers are…

That’s the very core of the Free Software Foundation’s and Stallman’s beliefs: that proprietary software takes control away from the user, which can lead to disastrous consequences, especially now that…

If the last decade was all about open source, the next decade will be about open APIs. However, as with open source, APIs aren’t necessarily a guarantee of billions in…

As we bid goodbye to 2011, there are lots of stories appearing on what a game-changing year this was for Linux, but my choice for open source story of the…

Over the past few years, Linux adoption rates in the enterprise have increased to encouraging levels. Enterprise users have quoted a wide range of TCO and ROI benefits, and as…

About the only battle I feel comfortable calling at this point is between consumers and vendors. The more vendors try to battle each other through lawsuits, the more consumers will…

Red Hat announced its third-quarter fiscal 2012 earning results on Monday, showing continued growth. For the quarter, Red Hat reported revenue of $290 million, which is a 23 percent year-over-year…