Rebecca Reid

Red Hat Inc. is offering a new hands-on course designed for advanced users of its Red Hat Enterprise products.

Red Hat Inc.'s decision to stop supporting its free Linux distribution has caused two Canadian universities to rethink their directions when it comes to the open source operating system.

Bell Canada on Tuesday unveiled a plan that would bring broadband connections to about 200,000 homes in northern Ontario and Quebec over the next four years.

Decision part of an eventful month for Linux

Continuing with its effort to help customers comply with looming U.S. privacy regulation deadlines, IBM Corp. recently introduced nine sets of software, service and hardware bundles designed to help companies more easily and more quickly meet the terms of regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

In an effort to simplify storage for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Hewlett-Packard Co. announced this week it has added two new products to its StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) family and created four new packaged solutions by combining the MSA products with its ProLiant servers.

Lindows.com Inc. last week announced an aggressive push into the Canadian market beginning with plans to sell 30,000 of its low-cost PCs to users in eastern Canada, followed by a move west.

While some companies want to switch to Linux on the desktop, these same firms are often not willing to live without their Microsoft Corp. Windows-based applications. With that in mind, SuSE AG on Thursday launched Wine Rack