Oracle and Sun Microsystems have expanded their alliance to include support for Oracle products on the Sun line of Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and Linux systems.
Sun Microsystems has entered into a global alliance with Red Hat to distribute its Enterprise Linux operating system.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) has aligned with government`s open source strategy, following its implementation of the KnowledgeTree enterprise document management system.
The concept of open source software is starting to catch on, says Douglas Reed, MD of DataPro.
At a Sun Microsystems technology update held in Sandton recently, the company said it is improving its strategy to deliver added value with its various operating environments.
South African organisations are pooh-poohing a letter sent to Linux distributors in May by Unix licence-holder the SCO Group, which claims that aspects of the Linux operating system are direct copies of Unix System 5.
International research firm Gartner expects ITxpo in Cape Town to stir up heated debate on telecommunications policy, Microsoft and open source software.
Sun Microsystems has introduced the Sun Fire V60x and V65X rack-optimised systems.
Dell Computer SA has provided Lewis Stores branches around the country with customised Dell PowerEdge 600 servers running Linux.
Liquid Thought has been commissioned by the Shuttleworth Foundation to develop an open source content management solution and redesign its Web site.
The next version of Novell`s NetWare software will offer customers a choice between a NetWare or Linux kernel, says Doug Knight, the software vendor`s VP of network infrastructure products.
The Symantec Enterprise Firewall for the IBM eServer iSeries 270 running Linux has been released.
AfriBiz has begun a feasibility study on starting a local open source publication.