Richard Hillesley

In-depth Is Linux the disruptive technology, or is it the GNU General Public License which really shook up the open source world?

In-depth Xandros has bought Linspire with a renewed aim of establishing Linux on the desktop, but neither has made the impact that might have been hoped for...

In-depth Linux, HPC and virtualisation have all lead to the rise of cloud computing, which offers a range of efficiencies to companies willing to set their data free.

In-depth Nokia's purchase of Symbian, and promise to take it open source, means three quarters of the world's smartphones could soon be running free software.

In-depth IT PRO looks at how free and open source software is helping academics, researchers and scientists gain a better understanding of space and time.

In-depth Patents and how they're controlled are damaging the way technology is developed - and the Linux case is a key example of this.

In-depth Formula One motor racing is using Linux to help shave another fraction of a second off a lap time.

In-depth Microsoft's troubles in Europe are far from over, as Neelie Kroes, The EU competition commissioner, has warned. We review the past and future options for Microsoft and the European Commission.

In-depth Microsoft's efforts to gain standard approval for its Office Open XML (OOXML) format is about to come to a close. We examine what the International Standards Organisation is looking for and what the likely outcome will be.

In-depth After the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) failed to resolve the differences around Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard, what happens next?

In-depth Delegates from the national standards bodies who contribute to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) met last week in Geneva to decide the immediate future of Microsoft's OOXML data format, ahead of a vote on 29 March.

In-depth In our second interview with Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, we discuss issues of interoperability and the learning curve associated with switching to Linux.

In-depth Mono allows programmers to program in Visual Basic on Linux and run their applications on Windows, or develop in C# on Windows and run their applications on Linux, but remains a controversial addition to the Linux developers' arsenal.

In-depth Sun Microsystems has purchased MySQL and released Java under the GPL. Chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has also speculated that there could be a future release of Solaris under the GPL, but what are the implications of such a move.

In-depth As the biggest open source company in the world, Red Hat stands at a significant crossroads between its open source roots and significant growth in enterprise demand for its products, as underlined by changes made to its management, discontent within its user community and a sharp rise in profits.

In-depth Groklaw is the blog that has made a difference. Created as a personal project by Pamela Jones, better known as PJ, in 2003, its stated purpose was to increase understanding of the law as it is applied to Linux and free software.

In-depth Debian GNU/Linux was the first project to be deliberately modelled on the principles of distributed software development, and provides the core software for many of the more successful commercial Linux distributions. Though Debian does not have the high profile of other Linux distributions the commercial success of Linux may owe more to the Debian community than advocates of Linux in the enterprise are ever likely to acknowledge...

In-depth Thanks to the EU we can now hope for a positive expansion of open standards, innovation and competition on the desktop. In this new environment Linux becomes a compelling alternative.

In-depth With two outstanding shared-source applications awaiting approval by the Open Source Initiative, we look at the implications for the open source and free software communities, and for the credibility of Microsoft's foray into more open software.

In-depth Once the domain of hobbyist software developers, open source software applications - both hosted and locally-installed - are having a major and positive impact on the enterprise.

In-depth The Year of the Linux desktop may never come. Instead, there will continue to be significant encroachment into the territory that Microsoft believes to be its own. This will happen for all the reasons you might expect. Linux is cheaper and more versatile and secure than the alternatives, and most of the arguments for not installing Linux don't hold much water.

In-depth Following a court ruling that Novell owns key Unix copyrights rather than embattled SCO, we look at the colourful and litigious relationship SCO has had with the world of Unix and Linux.

In-depth While Linux is still taking off relatively slowly in the desktop world, the same is not true in the mobile space where many are predicting that we will be presented with a mobile Linux Odyssey in 2012.

In-depth IT PRO speaks to Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth about the future for Ubuntu and Linux as a platform.