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Xerox PARC, Apple, Microsoft: these companies and more have contributed to the ubiquitous but evolving WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointers) user interface. According to Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu is poised to revolutionise the menu this April.

Bruce Perens looks a bit disoriented as he comes into the hotel lobby, looking for me. "Anyone here called Sam?" he calls out. The tiredness is evident on his face after the long haul from the US to Australia.

Dell has chosen SUSE as the first Linux distribution available on its Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service.

Two months back, Red Hat developers Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers proposed a fundamental change to the structure of Linux in the shape of the Journal daemon, meant to replace the venerable syslog.

Open Ocean Capital, which backed MySQL, has invested over $US1 million in Zentyal, developer of the Linux Small Business Server.

Edward Naughton is at it again. The lawyer from Brown Rudnick has for the third time alleged that Google is violating the terms of the GPLv2 under which the Linux kernel is distributed.

Telstra is offering virtual servers to large and small businesses from $200 per month, claiming the potential to save SMEs thousands of dollars.

  Kerio Connect 7.3 is a more appropriate messaging and collaboration server for organisations with between 50 and 500 employees than Microsoft Exchange or Google Apps, company officials claim.  

Worldwide use of Windows 7 has finally passed that of Windows XP, according to one web tracking company.