Linux adoptions are to grow in the next three to five years at nearly triple the rate of Windows, according to Oracle. In an interview at the LinuxWorld conference in Sydney, the database company ...

Microsoft's Office suite is the most widely used set of business productivity tools-and, as such, will pose the greatest barrier to adoption of Linux desktops for most companies. In large part this is ...

Linux use in computer servers running business applications was reported in 53 percent of the 500 North American companies surveyed by SG Cowen and Co. for its Core Technology Survey, released this ...

Linux is ready to spread from Web servers into mainstream applications at the heart of businesses, according to companies exhibiting at the Linux Expo in London's Olympia conference center on Thursday ...

Over the next 12 to 18 months, Linux will strengthen its hold in the data center and make significant inroads on Microsoft Corp.’s desktop monopoly. This will be driven by the pending release of the 2 ...

IBM Corp. and Novell Inc. have teamed up to drive Linux adoption among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with new packaged bundles of Novell’s Linux distribution and IBM’s software and servers.

ZDNET's key takeaways Arch and Fedora are two different Linux distributions.One of these is better suited for those with less experience.Both are outstanding Linux distributions that can be used for ...

Just read this on Barron's Online: Is the growth rate of Linux adoption slowing down? UBS software analyst Heather Bellini asks that provocative question in a rundown this morning on the findings of ...