The city of Munich will not start its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year later than planned and three years since it decided to go with the open-source operating system. The ...

The migration of around 300 business applications from Windows to Linux is one of the biggest challenges facing the city of Munich, which has embarked on one of Europe’s largest open-source projects ...

Microsoft Corp. spent a considerable amount of time, money and energy trying to convince corporate IT shops that moving from Windows to Linux servers wouldn’t make sense — but at least for now, it’s ...

BOSTON – Linux is easier to deploy and maintain than its reputation might suggest, IT company executives said at LinuxWorld this week. “Together, let’s work on the few remaining holdouts and get them ...

The biggest-ever Windows-to-Linux migration--the city of Munich's 14,000 desktops--has been put on ice while legal issues are settled. The switch has been temporarily suspended over fears incoming EU ...

Poor IT governance has prevented the IRS from making progress on a long-term effort to migrate 141 legacy applications from proprietary vendor software to open-source Linux operating systems, ...

All of our backend processing has been running on Sun/Oracle Sparc systems under Solaris 8-11 for a number of years. In an effort to get out from under the pricey Oracle environment, we've recently ...

The deal expands an existing relationship and poses a competitive threat to another BEA partner, Sun Microsystems. Sun derives much of its revenue from its Unix-based Solaris operating system and ...

SAP HANA runs only on Linux — which means it could run on distributions other than SUSE — but Oppenkowski said that the experience that SUSE had with getting SAP HANA up and going over the past few ...