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Article | 20/09/2007 Danish school kid's verdict on the OLPC laptop: It's cool!
Negropontes' people's PC is solely aimed at schoolchildren and if they give it thumbs down the large-scale project won't succeed -- no matter what kin...
Article | 20/09/2007 One Laptop per Child machine gets tested in Denmark
During the last 24 hours Computerworld in Denmark has been a member of a small and very exclusive club.
Article | 20/09/2007 OLPC machine may cause an education revolution
If the One Laptop Project keeps its promises, the small green US$100 laptop could very well revolutionise teaching in developing nations. Computerworl...
Article | 19/09/2007 OpenOffice update charts course to new features
The OpenOffice.org group updated its open-source suite of desktop applications on Monday, saying that its new release enhances the ability of users to...
Article | 19/09/2007 IBM composes new Office rival with Lotus Symphony suite
One week after saying it would belatedly join the OpenOffice.org open-source community, IBM on Tuesday released its own version of the group's free de...
Article | 18/09/2007 CodeGear offers IDE for Ruby on Rails
CodeGear is today releasing CodeGear 3rdRail, an IDE for building applications with the popular Ruby on Rails open source Web framework.
Article | 15/09/2007 HP user group looks for Linux desktop from vendor
Hewlett-Packard's decision last month to sell desktop PCs with Linux installed on them in Australia is giving hope to Linux advocates at the Encompass...
Article | 15/09/2007 Acquisition to provide Sun with Lustre file system
Sun Microsystems Wednesday agreed to purchase most of Cluster File Systems' business assets and intellectual property, including the Lustre file syste...
Article | 13/09/2007 BEA's Genesis to back open source, scripting languages
BEA Systems' planned next-generation application platform, called Project Genesis, will feature an open source component and accommodate scripting lan...
Article | 13/09/2007 Microsoft/Novell open Windows/Linux interop lab
Microsoft and Novell on Wednesday swung open the doors on their Windows/Linux interoperability lab and said its initial focus will be around three pro...
Article | 12/09/2007 IBM piles on Microsoft's open document defeat
IBM Monday seized on last week's rejection by the ISO of the Microsoft and Ecma International Office Open XML format and said it would throw its devel...
Article | 31/08/2007 Sun seeks developer help to make Solaris ubiquitous
Sun Microsystems has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the ki...
Article | 29/08/2007 Ask a penguin to see which way Linux wind blows
The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Lin...
Article | 8/08/2007 LINUXWORLD - Dell to offer Inspirons with Linux in Europe
Following up on its Spring 07 announcement that <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/21/Dell-Linux-machines-to-debut-Thursday_1.html">it wi...
Article | 19/07/2007 Open-Xchange and Ubuntu woo small business
Open-Xchange has released an Outlook-compatible groupware server specifically designed for smaller businesses, and designed as a simple, open-source a...
Article | 10/07/2007 TurboLinux to help translate Open XML for Asia
Microsoft is enlisting Linux distributor TurboLinux to help tailor work being done to translate documents between Open XML and ODF file formats for Ja...
Article | 28/06/2007 Google Desktop finally out for Linux
Google launched a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system.
Article | 28/06/2007 Google Desktop finally out for Linux
Google plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday (US time), almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operati...
Article | 21/06/2007 Novell still feisty as it pushes Linux alternatives to Microsoft for SMBs
While Novell's partnership with Microsoft remains the subject of controversy, the NetWare-cum-Linux vendor is still pushing out Linux and open source ...
Article | 15/06/2007 Linux community getting its second wind
Linux is entering its second phase of growth, which will be defined by better cooperation among developers, new licensing options, and a stronger oper...

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