The Linux server market is expected to grow by 35% from last year, according to research firm IDC. Many of these Linux systems are replacing Unix in corporations looking to reduce IT costs. However, ...

The city of Munich will not start its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year later than planned and three years since it decided to go with the open-source operating system. The ...

The migration of around 300 business applications from Windows to Linux is one of the biggest challenges facing the city of Munich, which has embarked on one of Europe’s largest open-source projects ...

All of our backend processing has been running on Sun/Oracle Sparc systems under Solaris 8-11 for a number of years. In an effort to get out from under the pricey Oracle environment, we've recently ...

IBM's 10,000 Australian staff are in the process of being moved over to Linux for file and print serving, as part of a cost-efficiency drive that has been in the pipeline since last year. IBM's Linux ...

Last week the press, especially that segment least friendly to Novell and open source, headlined the fact that 3,000 out of 5,000 Novell employees had the capability to boot Windows on their computers ...

Microsoft Corp. spent a considerable amount of time, money and energy trying to convince corporate IT shops that moving from Windows to Linux servers wouldn’t make sense — but at least for now, it’s ...

The Document Foundation (TDF) suggests migrating to Linux & LibreOffice as a cost-effective alternative to Windows 11 due to hidden prohibitive costs. TDF emphasizes the combination offers modern OS, ...

Can someone direct me to any case studies or books on migrating a domain from Windows to Linux? I've seen a couple from Novell and Red Hat, but they do no answer all of my questions. <BR><BR>I'm in ...

Wow. Did you see the recent Business Week story titled The Linux Uprising? I’m not pointing it out because it’s good (it was pretty poor), but because of what it represents – the leading edge of a ...

Real Software is adding the ability to migrate Windows applications to Linux in an upgrade of the company’s Realbasic tool. Available Wednesday, Version 5.5 of Realbasic includes a conversion utility ...

Red Hat's forthcoming Enterprise Desktop, for example, will use lock-down features and read-only facilities of SELinux to minimize hacker attacks and may include antivirus software, said Havoc ...