Yahoo just running Oracle Linux on a few database servers.

Red Hat is taking a second stab at the embedded systems market.

Despite various attempts at Windows Desktop alternatives, Linux is still best suited to servers, for which Red Hat is by far the most popular choice. With this in mind, it came as no surprise when in May 2002 Red Hat split its product line in two: Linux and Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat's latest offering is a finely tuned offensive into the lucrative corporate desktop market. With the Linux steamroller on a collision course for Redmond the last year has seen a number of major wins for the open source upstart with corporations such as IBM and governments that include Germany, France, China, Japan, Russia and Britain either already making the switch or considering it. And not just for servers, but on workstations too.

Red Hat will announce its first high performance computing (HPC) optimised distro, the Red Hat HPC, on 7 October.

US$10 donation from each one sold to fight AIDS, TB and malaria.

Goliath takes aim at David.

Warns customers and issues security update.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Novell OES to be launched at LinuxWorld.

26 Red Hat customers jump ship.

Entry-level WebSphere version bundled with SuSE.

An often irreverent look at some of the past week's other news.

New update integrates OpenJDK and adds virtualisation enhancements.

Dell gains another open source partner.

Total open sourcing of Java moves closer.

First Linux patent claim is here.

More tools and good support options are just some of the highlights of this server package.