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WPC is one of the most important IT conferences in Italy, as it focuses on bringing to Italian developers the latest information on the future of IT from a Microsoft Windows-centric point of view. The 2004 edition was held in Milan last week, and for the first time in the history of this event, the sponsors held a second conference during the first three days in the same place: the PC Professionale Conference.

VA Linux Systems Japan announced the release of 'VA Balance', a highly effective, high-availability load balancing software fully integrated with Linux OS and ideally suited to enterprise systems.

Microsoft warned Asian governments on Thursday they could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of its Windows software.

A lot of Linux distribution reviews are centered around the ease of installation, new applications or versions of included, and generally how the reviewer 'feels' about it. Naturally, this is somewhat flawed by bias. While this is part of a review process wouldn't these reviews be better served with some number comparisons? What are your thoughts on how to more quantitatively benchmark linux distros?

Sun Microsystems head honchos Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz often equate Red Hat with all of GNU/Linux. After interviewing both of them on Monday during the day-long Solaris 10 launch event in San Jose, I understood their frame of reference on this matter and many others much more clearly. For the first time in several releases, Solaris is actually a threat to the other players in the operating system market, but Sun's market outlook and publicity strategy may be working against the merits of Solaris 10.

Just because Firefox is free and open source doesn't mean developers aren't cashing in on the popularity of the Mozilla Foundation's new browser.

Desktop Linux provider Linspire Now Natively Supports Latest Versions of Windows Media. Many popular music sites remain inaccessible as Microsoft's Digital Rights Management restricts Linux playback.

Japan's leading mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, has just made it even easier for handset vendors to produce smartphones using Linux. It has just launched a common software platform for its 3G FOMA handsets. DoCoMo will license the platform to handset vendors, aiming to improve time-to-market and cost-effectiveness.

Maker of 99.999 Percent Uptime Fault-tolerant Servers to Join OSDL Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux Working Groups

New Linux-based software platform for 3G mobile phones will be put into practical use in three new handsets: NEC N901iC, NEC N900iL, and Panasonic P901i.

The open source world is shaking the traditional IT world by its roots, not only through its non-conformist approach to licensing agreements and ownership of source code, but also through its broad-minded views on solutions implementation and its determination to crush the crippling concept of vendor lock-in.

Lulu.com is the brainchild of Red Hat founder Bob Young. With Lulu, Young offers would-be publishers, whether book authors, musicians, photographers, or artists, the opportunity to expose and sell their work for little or no upfront investment. But Lulu.com is more than just an on-demand publishing house. True to the open spirit, it is also a community -- a haven where artistic people can gather to share experiences and seek advice from one another. They can network, looking for opportunities to collaborate and muster up creative synergy. It is open and it is free. And now, it is for software developers too.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--When Sun Microsystems releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system--one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more competitive with Linux.

Accommodating large patch sets in Linux is expected to mean forking off of the 2.7 version of the platform to accommodate these changes, according to Andrew Morton, lead maintainer of the Linux kernel for Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).

Microsoft has warned Asian governments they could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of its Windows software.

CURACAO, NETHERLANDS ANTILLES -- When I agreed to speak at this island's first-ever free/open source conference last Wednesday, I was warned that Linux and open source were not well-known here. This was not true, but most of Curacao's Linux and open source software users thought they were alone. Indeed, it turns out that almost every major IT-related business here was already using Linux, and that most plan to use it more in the future. This saddened Microsoft employee Edwin Marchan, who also spoke to the approximately 75 local IT leaders who came to learn about Linux and open source, but everyone else went away happy.

In part one of this interview, Linspire CEO Michael Robertson discussed how Linux is going to effectively rip the tablecloth out from under Microsoft's enterprise market share. In part two, he describes how his company hopes to achieve success in laying out its own buffet of Linux offerings.

Microsoft Tuesday came as close at it may ever get to supporting UNIX and Linux when it took a minority stake in integration vendor Vintela. The Lindon, Utah-based Vintela has been cranking out software over the past few months to extend Windows-based authentication, management, and monitoring capabilities to UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems.

Taken from a White Paper published on http://www.ibm.com, this article summarises the benefits of Linux and Intel-based servers in cutting the cost of enterprise computing according to an IDC study for IBM and Red Hat.

In the past week at OSDir we took some time to install and built screenshot tours for Tao Linux 3.0 Update 3, Kurumin Linux 4.0 Alpha 1, Fedora Core 3, and Kaella 1.2 Beta 2. Be sure to check it out.

A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here.