Dell will offer Novell Linux software services to its enterprise customers.
Novell has released the Nterprise Linux Services package, which is supported on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server distributions.
Dell, HP and IBM will make Novell`s Linux offerings available to their enterprise customers, Novell announced in SA today.
Progress Software company PeerDirect has announced native support for the Linux operating system in the PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise product suite.
Sun Microsystems has entered into a global alliance with Red Hat to distribute its Enterprise Linux operating system.
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.
Liquid Thought has been commissioned by the Shuttleworth Foundation to develop an open source content management solution and redesign its Web site.
AfriBiz has begun a feasibility study on starting a local open source publication.
A Stellenbosch-based software company, Swist, is to launch its Oracle software offering for the Linux environment at Oracle's international AppsWorld conference in London next month.
The Government IT Officers` Council meets today to discuss a tool, made available by SITA, that addresses open source software (OSS) total cost of ownership. This follows the SA government`s statement tentatively supporting open source software on Wednesday.
Obsidian Systems will distribute the Ximian user-interface for the Linux operating system in SA.