Gmail can meet the needs of individuals, but enterprises won't trust it until Google frees Gmail and Google Apps from…
The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project on June 9 announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free…
Microsoft supports ODF and OpenOffice is Office-compatible. We'd be in file format heaven, if it weren't for the difference between…
Tom Watson, the man credited with being the UK government's first blogger and encouraging use of open source is leaving…
Sun's new OpenSolaris 2009.06 is faster - and has better networking thanks to Project Crossbow
The European Commission wants more government departments to share open source project code and learnings
Government IT departments can't get open source intalled without political backing, according to a senior figure in the iconic Munich…
IBM, which is seeing a continued resurgence in the mainframe space, is offering new migration services and financial incentives in…
At its recent Google I/O developer conference, Google dished out a preview demo of “Donut,” the 2.0 version of the…
Contracts are drafted to exclude any alternatives and hand the money over to Redmond, say local activists
The open source movement wants to see government contracts open to proper competitive tendering. Let's see how that issue plays…
Free software pact gives supporters something better to vote on than disgust over MP's expenses
£8 million a year to Microsoft, with no public bidding. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, say open…
Open source desktops haven't been a hit so far, but the recession, virtualisation, and the failure of Vista could change…
Business and netbook users of web apps will find Prism a particular time saver and it helps web app developers…
The 3.0 release of OpenOffice left some issues in the productivity suite. This new version makes a good job of…
Users need support in ever more demanding workloads, greening strategies and cloud computing models, which guarantees the mainframe's continuing relevance,…
Novell announced it will create a Moblin-based product for netbooks that it will push to OEMs and ODMs.
Larry Ellison has committed Oracle to investing more in Sun's SPARC, apparently because he think servers are like iPhones. That's…
Despite a mission to make the games as financially and environmentally sustainable as possible, the organisers of London 2012 have…
That more or less completes the 5000 announced earlier. But there could be more in store
Tighter server integration keeps Office ahead of Linux/OpenOffice, but SP2 could create headaches for IT organisations.
Sun has an impressive list of open source projects. How many will survive if Oracle takes over?
Research centre investments can change the way we live, says science minister
The recession has dampened end users' enthusiasm for "green" IT outsourcing contracts
Serving both desktop and server roles, Ubuntu 9.04 comes with build-your-own compute cloud software and a netbook tweaked version.
Windows revenue may be down, but it will take more than that to make Microsoft embrace the netbook
Video: small businesses have plenty to get to grips with in the new budget - this panel advises how the…
Oracle's acquisition will end one of the most inspirational high-tech companies in Silicon Valley history. And it's a sad day…
The question "Oracle good, or Oracle bad, for MySQL?" was generally met with a smile first, then a measured, thoughtful…