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Indeed, "open source has gone from being a foreign oddity to a lot of users to being associated with cost savings and flexibility," Jay Lyman, an analyst for enterprise software with the 451 Group, told LinuxInsider. "I'm not surprised to hear vendors and users saying it's increasing."

"While SourceForge may be best known for its repository, its business has been sustained mostly by its Slashdot and other media sites, and advertising and ThinkGeek e-commerce site," said Jay Lyman, open source analyst for The 451 Group. "The company's greateropportunity is i...

"Wherever you see paid support, there's typically some parallel free support," Jay Lyman, an enterprise software analyst with the 451 Group, told LinuxInsider For example, traditional systems integrators and consultants are now increasingly involved in open source. If an enter...

"The Cloud OS and Good OS are interesting, and they definitely mark a trend toward a more lightweight, nimble, browser-based OS approach for mobile devices, particularly netbooks and MIDs (mobile Internet devices)," Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group, told LinuxInsider Clo...

"This is a serious issue, rightly rated critical by Red Hat. And while there may not be cases of widespread exploitation of it, it does require prompt and direct response. I think Red Hat is doing that, and in the end I think this issue will be highlighted by the company's response," Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group, told the LinuxInsider...

Microsoft naturally would like for every enterprise user to run Windows, but it also realizes that nearly all enterprise data centers and server rooms have multiple operating systems, explained Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group "If you look at the two fastest server [oper...

"[Open XML] might be considered by some an open standard. However, the process and fast-tracking has prompted not only skepticism and controversy, but also appeals from a number of nations that are ISO members," said Jay Lyman, an analyst at the 451 Group "There are some who w...

"Linux makes sense in thin-client computing for a number of reasons. First, when you're cutting costs on the hardware and resources required for thin clients, you probably don't want to see savings eaten up by licensing costs for the [operating system]. Linux is free and now supports almost all of the user applications required in typical settings," said Jay Lyman, an analyst with The 451 Group.

Hardy Heron's server version "continues Canonical's efforts and aspirations to move some of Ubuntu's desktop success onto the server," Jay Lyman, an analyst with the 451 Group, told LinuxInsider Likely target users of the release are midsize and smaller organizations, Lyman ad...

Red Hat has already diverted some of its focus and attention from Fedora, its community Linux, so "I'm not totally shocked" by this announcement, Jay Lyman, an analyst with the 451 group, told LinuxInsider. "This isn't the first time they've said, 'we're really not that interested in the desktop.'"...

"This is pretty big news, and obviously a surprise to many folks," Jay Lyman, an analyst with the 451 Group, told LinuxInsider. "Szulik's always been fixture at Red Hat, and we're wondering, why now?" Szulik's wife is reportedly seriously ill, but the change may be at least in...

Jeremy Allison, a prominent open source software developer and Sambaproject cofounder, announced last week that he would be leaving Suse Linux vendorNovell over the company's patent pact with Microsoft ...

Financial heavyweights are among the first IT customers to take upMicrosoft's offer for Linux -- delivered to its Windows customers throughRedmond's recent deal with Novell, which signed up its Suse Linux forthe interoperability and patent partnership last month ...

Mozilla released the first security reinforcements for Firefox 2.0, the latest version of its popular Web browser, providing users of the open source softwarewith fixes for five critical and three minor security holes ...

With version 9.1, the latest iteration of its free Web browser,Opera joins competitorsMicrosoft andMozilla by prominently featuring anti-phishing and anti-fraud measures ...

Semiconductor makerHynix announced Monday that it has developed a smaller dynamic random access memory chip using a 60-nanometer process that -- at 800 MHz -- is the world's fastest. The improved DRAM reportedly delivers 1 GB capacity along with the blazing speed, which tops the performance of existing 667 Mhz DRAM chips ...

IBM last week unveiled a new Open Collaborative Research program, through which technology and results from IBM Research will be made available to the faculty and students of several top universities: Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue, Rutgers, UC Berkeley and UC Davis ...

XenSource wants itsopen source Xen virtualization technology to win over large enterprise customers, and now the company is eyeing smaller, wider markets with new virtualization products aimed at Windows and more mainstream IT users ...

Heavy open source software user and Internet search giant Google this week unveiled a fully open source version of its Google Web Toolkit, GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, available for free under the Apache 2.0 open source license ...

Microsoft andNovell this week touted results of a recent survey -- sponsored by both companies -- indicating that nearly all IT customers at large organizations overwhelmingly approved of their Windows-Linux interoperability and patent protection deal ...