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  • What's next with hypervisors?

    The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.

  • Security rundown for the week ending Sept. 2

    A mish-mash of security issues came up this week, everything from how to protect virtualized environments to a system that protects copper in utility sites from robbery and a story about digital certificate thefts.

  • Microsoft extends SUSE Linux partnership

    Extending a partnership established in 2006, Microsoft has renewed a working agreement to resell SUSE Linux and help develop new Windows interoperability tools for the OS, Microsoft announced Monday.

  • Nonprofit helps government expand open source software usage

    The U.S. government is still very much a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/082310-microsoft-open-source.html">Windows</a> world, but a group dedicated to bringing <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/opensource/">open source</a> software into public agencies says it is seeing progress on several fronts.

  • GPL faces test in German court

    A court case that open-source advocates say could have major repercussions on the GPL opened in German district court in Berlin Tuesday.

  • Windows 7 helps Microsoft boost OS share to 78.6%

    Microsoft's Windows accounted for 78.6 per cent of worldwide operating system revenue in 2010, up nearly a full percentage point, despite growth in Linux servers and Mac desktops, according to Gartner.

  • State Street modernizing with cloud, Linux technologies

    State Street Corporation says technology must evolve to meet the increasingly demanding needs of financial services, and within its own data centers is adopting new cloud-like technologies and placing a greater emphasis on Linux and open source.

  • Microsoft to WP7 app developers: Use our open source licenses

    Microsoft has prohibited developers from using GPLv3-licensed open source software in any application distributed on the Windows Phone Marketplace. But Redmond is pushing mobile application developers to use packages based on an open source license created by Microsoft.

  • IBM cloud patching system highlights virtualization research

    IBM's research division is working on several virtualization projects that could boost security of cloud computing networks, reduce data center power costs, and improve the ability to run multiple hypervisors and operating systems, including Linux and Windows.

  • Why Novell is worth $2.2 billion to Attachmate

    Novell has long since lost its position as a dominant vendor in the operating system market, but the vendor's long, slow decline didn't change the fact that Novell still has some valuable technologies.

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