Stories about: Open Source Development Lab

With questions emerging about how Linux was developed and whether it illegally contains code from System V Unix, the nonprofit Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is going on the offensive: It's launching a media campaign to explain in detail how the Linux kernel is developed by a global community of developers.

While continuing its recent embrace of Linux and the Intel architecture, Sun Microsystems nonetheless remains committed to its own Sparc chip architecture and Solaris Unix operating system.

Global consumer products maker The Unilever Group, which earlier this year announced that it will move all of its IT systems to Linux during the next decade, on Thursday became the first non-IT vendor to join the nonprofit Open Source Development Lab (OSDL).

Hewlett-Packard has created a product division devoted to Linux as the company ups its commitment to products based on this open-source operating system.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, is joining the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) as its first-ever OSDL Fellow.

SuSE Linux AG is launching its Carrier Grade Linux operating system for the telecommunications market, and IBM Corp. has announced the opening of its Linux Competency Centre in London to give business leaders a place to see Linux in action in the enterprise.

The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), an advocacy group that promotes Linux use in corporate computing, has hired a 22-year IT veteran as its new CEO.

To hear some people tell it, Linux is taking the world by storm. Unilever, a US$52 billion consumer products giant, is switching to Linux to run its businesses around the world. Major vendors such as IBM, SAP and Computer Associates are porting mainstream business applications and utilities to the low-cost, open-source operating system.

After years of running a complex tangle of Unix operating systems in its global IT server operations, consumer products company The Unilever Group is committing its technological future to Linux.

According to two prominent firms in the prognosticating business, Linux will see continued prosperity in enterprises in 2003.

Linux vendor Red Hat Tuesday detailed the release of its operating system for workstations, and announced that it has enhanced its Linux Advanced Server operating system to add support for "carrier-grade" Linux applications.