Desktops are key to open source success, say Mark Shuttleworth and other open source proponents.
Sybase SA, a Red Hat Linux certified training partner, has announced its certification offering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.
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The BlueBox has launched FREEbase, its free business server platform that runs on either Windows or Linux.
There is a large foreign presence at Futurex 2005, which opened in Sandton this morning.
Software billionaire Mark Shuttleworth says SA is placed to lead the open source explosion.
Microsoft says it doesn`t oppose open source software.
Obsidian Systems will unveil a new corporate image at the LinuxWorld conference and exhibition in Sandton this week.
Tangent will showcase its Meridian solution for Linux in SA next week.
The city of Munich will use Novell Open Enterprise Server and migrate many of its NetWare servers to Open Enterprise Server within the next few months.
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IBM has launched the most significant upgrade to the Informix platform in six years.