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Article | 28/04/2011 Windows 7 helps Microsoft boost OS share to 78.6%
Microsoft's Windows accounted for 78.6 per cent of worldwide operating system revenue in 2010, up nearly a full percentage point, despite growth in Li...
Article | 23/04/2011 LibreOffice development on track after Oracle move
The Document Foundation on Friday <a href="http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/04/22/libreoffice-3-4-beta-2-available/">announced a second beta</a...
Article | 21/04/2011 Fedora dons the new Gnome
The next version of Fedora will be the first major Linux distribution to use the radically updated GNOME as its default desktop interface.
Article | 20/04/2011 Linux patent protection network gets boost from Facebook, HP
Facebook, HP, Rackspace, Juniper, Fujitsu and dozens of other organizations have joined a group building a defensive patent portfolio to protect Linux...
Article | 15/04/2011 Red Hat becomes cloud service provider
Red Hat officials never seem to stop talking about cloud computing, but until recently all the company's efforts were targeted at helping enterprises ...
Article | 14/04/2011 Red Hat cache move sparks standards spat
By introducing a Java specification for its own Infinispan data grid technology, open-source software provider Red Hat has generated a lively debate w...
Article | 6/04/2011 Bashing Microsoft 'like kicking a puppy,' says Linux Foundation chief
Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won, says ...
Article | 26/03/2011 Red Hat proves that open source is good for business
Critics of free and open source software are fond of making the argument that software must be locked up, patented and jealously guarded if it is to s...
Article | 26/03/2011 Wall Street Beat: IT earnings boost market confidence
Oracle, Red Hat and Micron earnings, along with good macroeconomic news, are pumping oxygen into tech stocks after the tragic March 11 earthquake in J...
Article | 22/03/2011 US government sides against Microsoft in Supreme Court patent case
The U.S. government itself has come out against <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> in a Supreme Court case that ma...
Article | 17/03/2011 Java EE 7 specification gets unanimous approval
The specification for the next version of Java Enterprise Edition has been approved unanimously, <a href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5162">accor...
Article | 10/03/2011 Red Hat 'virtualizes' data with new JBoss ESB
Red Hat has updated its ESB (enterprise service bus) software with an integration tool that allows users to aggregate data from multiple sources into ...
Article | 4/03/2011 Novell steps up to managing enterprise Linux servers
Novell Thursday shipped software for managing enterprise Linux servers made by Novell and Red Hat, taking its systems management approach to a higher ...
Article | 4/02/2011 Red Hat, Google challenge software patents
Red Hat, Google, Dell, and several other companies have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging "poor quality" software patents,...
Article | 3/02/2011 Myriad updates come to open source software
January was a busy month for open source software, with numerous packages receiving key updates and improvements. Since so many have been released in ...