Walmart had made history a few months earlier when it had publicly announced the availability of Linux PCs being sold in its stores. The news received much fanfare and was very well received by Linux proponents. But that celebration might have been too soon. According to AP news the massive chain store is pulling the [...]

Open-source adoption for businesses and corporations come bundled with security concerns and financial projections. HP’s research and development group have come up with FOSSology.org to placate those concerns. In short, FOSSology is HP’s way of addressing open source software management for IT organizations. If HP is successfully able to address concerns of IT staff then [...]

Computer manufacturer Dell is zooming past HP, Acer and others in the open-source arena. Last month Direct2Dell blog reported when Dell started offering Ubuntu 7.10 to US consumers. That was a significant advancement which reinforced Dell’s support for Ubuntu Linux. Once the company noticed the growing trend among the customers to opt for open-source software [...]

MySQL is the industry leading open-source database solution which is widely popular and is used by several multi-billion dollar businesses. Yahoo, Google, Nokia and YouTube along with several others trust and use the powerful database. Sun is paying $800million for the acquisition and will be the new owner of the MySQL AB which is arguably [...]