Red Hat says anti-US feeling is fueling open source uptake

That’s what Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst said at the Open Source Business conference this week, but isn’t that all too simplistic?

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Time for Sun to join the Eclipse empire?

Eclipse is now arguably the biggest unified open source project out there, offering several important frameworks that allow a constant expansion of its activity into new domains. Sun, which was initially reluctant to join the behemoth, focussing on its own NetBeans, now needs to rethink, and embrace the global benefits.

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The datacentre is dead, says HP

The company cut down 80 of its own datacentres, and bought facilities consultancy EYP to help design its consolidation efforts. HP’s strategy was backed by market research, which found that CIOs thought their datacentres to be inefficient, inflexible, would rapidly run out of capacity and only offered “short term solutions.”

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Open source’s exponential growth explained

Two researchers sit down and track all the coding that has been going on, and discover that the formula is simple: the more code that is created, the greater the pool of code that is available for others to use and build on, which tends to drive even faster creation of new projects.

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XP-based Eee PC predicted to outsell Linux

Think about it. The Windows XP version costs nearly twice the cheaper, Linux-based one. Yet the company forecasts that Asus could be shipping around three million Windows Eee PCs and two million Linux ones before the end of this year. Tall tale or what?

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Bristol City Council saves with ODF

Implementing StarOffice for 5,500 desktops in Bristol saved 1.1 million GBP (1.4 million euro) in comparison to the total cost of implementing Microsoft Office.

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Accounting package that calculates carbon footprints

Now, why didn’t we think of that? British software firm Access Accounting has incorporated a tool within its accounting package that will enable enterprises to assess the carbon footprint of individual users or departments within the company.

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Cost factor keeps green IT down on priority list

A survey carried out within the 150-member Corporate iT Forum reveals 81 percent to have pushed green computing issues further up their agenda compared to that of last year. But cost remains a crucial sticking point.

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How the V word frightens Microsoft

Now, I’ve been going to press launches for 25 years, and all of them talk about the new features and how they’re better/faster/cheaper/ than the competition; this was the first time where much of the talk – at Microsoft’s Windows 2008 launch – centred on a feature that’s not yet been delivered. The Hyper V, its own take on virtualisation.

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NHS IT suppliers face £1.5bn shortfall

The government has paid suppliers £1.5bn less than planned for the National Programme for IT in the NHS.

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