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Open Source software is likely to dominate the Software as a Service (SaaS) segment for reasons of economy and community building says market researcher Gartner: Open Source is cheap, and communities keep it popular.

The results of the election are confirmed: Debian veteran Steve McIntyre has won the Debian Project Leader (DPL) election in the third round of voting.

According to reports, the department of education in the Australian state of New South Wales has decided to install Open Office on its 41,000 computers.

For over a year now, the Linux Driver Project (LDP) has offered free development of hardware drivers. Novell gave its employee and the project initiator Greg Kroah-Hartman a sabbatical for driver programming; Kroah-Hartmann recently published a status report.

The Brazilian election authority has announced that voting systems based on Linux will be used for the election later this year.

In a announcement made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chip manufacturer AMD attributes job losses to poor figures in this quarter.

It's official: Microsoft's Office Open XML format (OOXML) has been accepted as a new standard at a second hearing