The past few years have seen many open source companies being bought by proprietary ones. Back in 2003 Novell bought German Linux maker SuSE. A few years ago Sun Microsystems bought database maker MySQL in a landmark $1 billion deal, and then la...
By Muggie van Staden
One of the biggest misconceptions about open source software (OSS) in the enterprise is that it is software that can be rolled out without the involvement of a vendor. But in reality, in any enterprise software deployment, the...
The dream of making low-cost computing and internet access available to underprivileged third-world communities is a fairly old one. The poster child of this effort is arguably the One Laptop Per Child initiative, a non-profit formed in January 2005 ...
By Wogan May
Exciting things have happened in the last few months. Apple's released the iPad, a device (or platform, if you will) that's already beginning to shape consumer demand and expectations. Other vendors are scrambling to catch up, with HP...
By Richard Catto
Like most avid computer users, the whole concept of trashing my computer and reinstalling everything from scratch is not something I relish doing because it is a task fraught with many technical difficulties that could easily leav...
Submitted by Tendai Chiguware
I have to admit I was not one of the first people to download Linux Ubuntu 8.04 when it was released some time last year. The reason was that I already had Ubuntu 7.01 Ultimate Gamers Edition (which I believe is the b...
Google recently joined the group of companies supporting the European Commission's investigation into Microsoft over the benefits it gets ahead of its competitors by releasing its Internet Explorer browser with Windows. The complaint was originally f...
