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Don’t Fear Big-Box Linux Development
News of a new Linux graphics-server project called “Wayland” crossed my desk this morning. It got me thinking: are “big-box” open source vendors going to make individual programmers irrelevant?
First, the project itself. Go check out the Phoronix.com article for the technical details; they’re fascinating enough on their own merit. Its creator, […]

Opennet reaches out to resellers
Opennet Middle East and Africa is taking part in a Red Hat virtualisation tour during the next two months calling in at Casablanca, Cairo, Dubai and Riyadh. The reseller-focused sessions will focus on the business and technical benefits of Red Hat virtualisation solutions. Opennet is the master distributor and authorised training […]

OpenSUSE Starts Steering its Own Course

It’s not easy for a Linux company to let go the reins of control over its community Linux distribution. Just ask Red Hat, which started to let go of Fedora and then decided to keep managing it (Red Hat keeps its grip on Fedora). But, now Novell is loosening its […]

JBoss Building New Community Site with Magnolia
Red Hat is a leading technology vendor for its Linux platform and JBoss middleware lines of business. Though it has tremendous in-house technical expertise, Red Hat is actually going to a third party vendor for the technology needed to build the Web content management system for the new JBoss.org […]

Some open source FUD is too lame to deserve a response
Watching Andrew Keen mercilessly beat up the strawman he creates for open source, I was tempted to leave the flame-bait post alone. But then I realized that Keen doesn’t mean to beat up on open source - he actually agrees with it. He simply doesn’t […]