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While the loudest buzz in the operating system/hardware arena has been the news of Apple's jump to Intel CPUs, another story that may be of more interest to enterprise datacenter managers involves two completely different operating system/CPU platforms - Linux and HP's NonStop servers.

Open source ERP developers are ready to roll with ERP-on-Linux products designed specifically for SMBs. Open source ERP suites for SMBs include Compiere, OfBiz, TinyERP and ERP5.

Unified Threat Management Software Provides Enhanced Features and Performance, Including Support for the Linux 2.6 Kernel

To assist the MySQL 5.0 Quality Assurance process, MySQL is looking for as many users as possible to test 5.0 in general, and specifically key features such as stored procedures, views, triggers.

Open source developers porting Microsoft's Indigo and Avalon subsystems for Windows to Linux or Unix will have to go through Microsoft before getting their hands on Windows APIs and protocols.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has a strong base here in India, and Richard Stallman has met the leaders of the country on more than one occasion. But with proprietary software businesses being so dominant and influential, all an average IT professional sees is a tug-of-war. We spoke with two open source business leaders -- David Axmark, co-founder of MySQL AB, and Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO of CollabNet -- to understand the benefits of an open source IT economy for a country such as India.

Early in my GIS career, I wanted to produce digital maps at home. Of course, I couldn't use tools I had access to at work due to licensing and cost restrictions. This led me to investigate open source GIS and mapping alternatives. I dove in and never looked back.

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com readers have lots of questions about the various open source and Linux-based e-mail systems available today. To get some of them answers, we caught up with our resident open source messaging expert, Julie Hanna Farris, who is also the founding CEO of Linux messaging company Scalix Corp.

The Schools Linux User Group volunteers yesterday rolled out ten Linux-based laboratories. And they did this before midday.

One of the many myths surrounding Linux is the one about it being difficult for beginners used to Windows. One distribution that proves this is not so is Kurumin Linux, a small Brazilian Knoppix-based distro maintained by Carlos Morimoto, who has become a personality in the Brazilian Linux community. Because it is based on Knoppix, Kurumin offers solid hardware detection accuracy and works natively as a live CD, and it's much easier to install on a hard drive than Knoppix thanks to a set of installation scripts that alleviate a lot the pain in the process.

A former senior manager from IBM's software group in Australia, Max McLaren, has been appointed general manager Australia and New Zealand of the Linux vendor. McLaren replaces Gus Robertson, who was recently promoted to an Asia-Pacific channels and alliances role.

Ever since the release of Google's Web Accelerator tool, there have been many who follow the search engine industry questioning the purpose and the effects of prefetching.

The SchoolTool development team and the Shuttleworth Foundation today released SchoolTool Calendar, an open source calendar server for schools. One of Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth's original 'big ideas' SchoolTool has suffered a few false starts but today but pulls through.

A South African network services and computing solutions developer has been appointed support and distribution partner for NoMachine's NX server and business software solutions.

Chairman of the No. 1 PC maker says he'd be interested in becoming a switcher himself if the opportunity ever came up.

On the heels of its recent acquisition of Brazilian Linux vendor Conectiva and name change from Mandrakesoft to Mandriva, Mandriva acquires Lycoris, a maker of user-friendly desktop Linux distributions.

Chairman of the No. 1 computer maker says he'd be interested in becoming a switcher himself if the opportunity ever came up.

The launch of Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris, the open source version of its Solaris OS, should be greeted as pretty good news by its reseller partners, say analysts.

Founder and chairman of the No. 1 computer maker says he'd be interested in becoming a switcher himself if the opportunity ever came up.

Without a formal policy governing free software use, one of Australia's largest general insurers has developed an application using free software and in the process has given code fixes back to the community.