Microsoft's Office suite is the most widely used set of business productivity tools-and, as such, will pose the greatest barrier to adoption of Linux desktops for most companies. In large part this is ...

For years, the Linux app gap was the primary dealbreaker that kept people away from the OS. If you needed professional ...

Even coming out of a challenging year, Linux momentum continues to build. A new survey of 428 IT professionals from organizations with $500 million or more a year in revenues or over 500 employees, ...

Linux use in computer servers running business applications was reported in 53 percent of the 500 North American companies surveyed by SG Cowen and Co. for its Core Technology Survey, released this ...

Linux is ready to spread from Web servers into mainstream applications at the heart of businesses, according to companies exhibiting at the Linux Expo in London's Olympia conference center on Thursday ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

IBM Corp. and Novell Inc. have teamed up to drive Linux adoption among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with new packaged bundles of Novell’s Linux distribution and IBM’s software and servers.

Just read this on Barron's Online: Is the growth rate of Linux adoption slowing down? UBS software analyst Heather Bellini asks that provocative question in a rundown this morning on the findings of ...

‘I expect some of you are here to see me because you’ve never seen anybody from Novell before,’ Novell Chairman and CEO Jack Messman quipped at the start of his keynote address Wednesday, opening this ...

Over the next 12 to 18 months, Linux will strengthen its hold in the data center and make significant inroads on Microsoft Corp.’s desktop monopoly. This will be driven by the pending release of the 2 ...

Asian companies are increasingly running their server applications on the Linux operating system, driven primarily by cost concerns. A new survey of 850 companies by Gartner Asia-Pacific revealed that ...

The Linux platform is home to a vast and highly diverse ecosystem of open source software applications. These programs are developed through a collaborative process that often relies heavily on the ...