At LinuxWorld in San Jose, California, Sun Microsystems announced that it is joining the Gnome Foundation, a new organisation for open community developers that will advance the Gnome desktop as an industry-wide open user environment.
Siltek Telecoms, local Dialogic distributor, says Dialogic and eOn Communications have signed a letter of intent in which the companies plan to develop Linux-based solutions for the communications market segment.
Sun Microsystems says several Linux companies, including Red Hat and Caldera, have signed agreements to redistribute the StarOffice 5.2 office productivity suite.
Obsidian Systems, a Johannesburg-based Linux company, says it has acquired The Linux Warehouse, a Cape Town Linux retailer, in a move designed to allow the company to hand its retailing responsibilities to The Linux Warehouse.
Dell SA and Red Hat have announced an alliance to accelerate commercial adoption of the Linux operating system and to support businesses building Internet infrastructures.
Dexchange, a local Emulex distributor, has announced the availability of Emulex Linux drivers, which can be used with the Caldera, Red Hat and TurboLinux operating systems.
Hewlett-Packard and Intel have released a free IA-64 developer`s kit that enables the Linux community to develop, test, debug and run IA-64 applications for the upcoming Intel Itanium processor.
Hyperion, represented locally by Global Technology Business Intelligence, says it has signed a developer partner agreement with Red Hat Software, a provider of open source solutions.
SGI has made its Pro64 compiler technology available to the open source community in its ongoing attempt to establish Linux as a commercially viable platform.
Too much is being made of Linux as a free operating system, when its real benefits are its features, says Sean Moony, chief technical consultant at MIP Holdings.