From eWeek.com

A global survey of open-so­urce enterprise users of Alfresco software has found that deployments of Red Hat Linux have grown twice as fast as those for Novell SUSE Linux since Novell signed its controversial patent and interoperability agreement with Microsoft in November 2006.

From TECHWORLD

French Linux vendor Mandriva said no to dealing with Microsoft on open source patents - the third Linux vendor in a week to do so. In a statement on his company blog , Francois Bancilhon, CEO of Paris-based Mandriva, said, "We don't believe it is necessary for us to get protection from Microsoft to do our job, or to pay protection money to anyone."

Zimbra the leader in Open S­ource Messaging and Collaboration has just appointed UR Solutions to be its partner to help market and support the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), one of the hottest open source software products available today. A proud user of the fantastic new product for the past few months, UR Solutions believes they will be the perfect partner to market ZCS as one of their premier open source ­solutions. The ZCS has been eating up the market share of its closest rivals MS Exchange and Lotus Notes for the past year, with over 9,000,000 paid subscribers around the world.

CensorNet, the world's favorite open source Internet Web Filtering & Management solution for Enterprise, Education and Personal use, recently appointed UR Solutions to be one of its resellers in the Philippines.

CensorNet addresses the growing concern of users accessing unsuitable and offensive material on the Internet in a powerful, reliable and cost effective way. Consistently CensorNet is chosen as the best alternative to commercial filteri­ng solutions. CensorNet fits in perfectly with UR Solutions array of Linux-based and open source software products.

From Baseline

If there is any question that technology initiatives must respond to business needs, it is put to rest by what readers of this magazine say they're focusing on in 2007.

From DesktopLinux.com

A school district technology director is making wholesale changes in her employer's IT system by migrating most of 5,000 Windows desktops to a new setup based primarily on Linux-powered desktop PCs and thin clients. The change aims to reduce annual costs, offer many more applications, and use less energy.

From Computerworld

Advocates and users of free and open source software (FOSS) technology believe that it is too late for any form of crus­ade to discredit FOSS as it is already widely used.

The sources made the statement following reports that some private software firms are now using marketing funds to mislead enterprises towards adopting the open source strategy.

From DesktopLinux.com

Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of Ubuntu, and Linspire Inc., the developer of Linspire and Freespire, on February 8 announced a technology partnership to integrate with each other's Linux distributions. Linspire/Freespire will be based on Ubuntu, rather than Debian, and Ubuntu will integrate with Linspire's CNR package installer/updater.

From Packt Publishing

From eWeek.com

Opinion: 2007 is the year that attackers get more creative. The low-hanging fruit is gone.

I'm always annoyed when it comes to the end-of-year retrospectives and predictions, especially the predictions. "More of the sam­e" is never an acceptable answer, even if it's true, because it's boring. But I do think that the security landscape has been changing over the last year and should accelerate in 2007.­

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