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A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.

The Mambo foundation has issued a statement in a bid to dispel what it claims to be "huge misconceptions" that have circulated in the media about the foundation and project.

Compiere, in Italian, means to accomplish, fulfill, deliver. The seven-year old open source ERP, which provides integrated customer relationship management (CRM), partner relations management (PRM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and online analysis processing (OLAP) for free, may sound too good to be true.

Schools, help-desks and call-centres are among the key target groups of a new Linux-based 'thin client' system launched by local open source outfit Cybersource.

DSL rollouts have increased 39 percent worldwide in the first nine months of 2004 to 85.3 million subscribers, according to new research from Point Topic for the DSL Forum.

Impi Linux, an Open Source software project geared towards promoting the widespread adoption of Open Source software in Africa, will be launching Impi Linux 2 at a South African Open Source Installfest on the weekend.

Did you know that 36% of developers prefer commercial versions of Linux and 15% prefer a non-commercial version, but that the majority of developers (49%) say that it doesn’t matter? Were you aware that, on the desktop, KDE has moved ahead of GNOME for the first time? (65% versus 56%, with a good many developers using both).

One question on everybody’s mind when they are thinking about Linux and how it will fit into the enterprise mould is that of whether the number of known distributions — believed to have reached approximately 130 — is helping or hurting Linux. This week at “CA World” in Las Vegas, a handful of the Linux world’s most influential activists gave their viewpoints on that issue.

Tthe founder and chief executive of UK-based IT analysts Bloor Research, Peter Bloor, has speculated that Sun ought to buy a Linux company (specifically, Red Hat or SuSE Linux).

The South African National Disaster Management Centre (SANDMC) claims to be able to provide its worldwide users with a single, integrated view of all potential natural disaster hazards, vulnerabilities and risks, thanks, in large part, to the computational ability of Mathematica.