Choosing a Linux Distribution for Your Business

If you’re confused about the different flavors of Vista in the store, then the varieties of Linux available will leave you gasping like a fish on a dock. Distrowatch, a site which tracks Linux’s different versions (or distributions, as they are called in the community), has well over four hundred listings. Faced with so many…

Mainsoft Brings .NET 2.0 to Linux

Enterprise CIOs typically have to make a platform decision about whether they will run enterprise applications on JavaEE or .NET 2.0. It’s a decision that can also limit the development options available to developers. Software vendor Mainsoft has been offering an open source Mono-based .NET solution called Visual MainWin, which helped solve the issue for…

IDC: Linux Ecosystem Worth $40 Billion by 2010

NEW YORK — Sizing the Linux market ecosystem is no easy task. Downloads of Linux operating systems and applications are not an accurate measure. Analyst firm IDC, however, has a handle on the market and its size, and it’s large. At the Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit, which kicked off Wednesday in New York, IDC analysts…

New Company Launched to Spread Linux

Five major Linux supporters are backing a new company whose goal is to acquire patents and offer them royalty-free in order to extend open source operating systems worldwide. The Open Invention Network (OIN) launched today with undisclosed financial backing from IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony, according to the companies. The company’s members said…