European shipments of servers for corporate networks and the Internet grew by four percent in the third quarter, bouncing back after two quarters of declines, research firm Gartner Dataquest announced recently.

European shipments of servers for corporate networks and the Internet grew by four percent in the third quarter, bouncing back after two quarters of declines, research firm Gartner Dataquest announced recently.

The Debian project has been invited to join the Advisory Board of the recently created Gnome Foundation. The Advisory Board is a forum for organizations and companies that have an interest in Gnome to communicate with the Board of the Foundation and work together to support Gnome.

Derek Burney, CEO of Corel Corporation, has responded to speculation that he has put the company's Linux business up for sale by admitting the division is set for radical change.

Collabnet is a company that wants to push the availability of Linux applications and open-source software development further. Co-founded last July by Brian Belhendorf, a co-creator of the open-source Apache Web server, the San Francisco start-up sells services and application-development platforms to software vendors that want to use the open source model of collaborative code-writing in the development of their products.

With value-added resellers doing strong business with Microsoft middleware—at the expense of missed IBM software revenue—IBM's announcement is a move to capture an increased share of software revenue by opening untapped markets in smaller enterprises.

A Massachusetts PC reseller is going co-op in an effort to boost open-source development. Spindletop System Dynamics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will only sell computers and peripherals that it rates the best supporters of Linux and FreeBSD, an older Unix-based operating system.

In what must be one of the most surreal stories we've ever covered, Microsoft has awarded a Linux devotee with one of the company's most coveted patents awards -even though the recipient has never worked for Microsoft.

Compaq has released a pair of ProLiant servers that come preloaded with Red Hat's version of Linux, fulfilling a promise made last summer that the open-source operating system would start being bundled with some of its machines.

"No one was ever fired for buying IBM" is an old saying in the corporate computing ranks. With Big Blue and Linux now so closely intertwined, it seems the word "IBM" in that IT adage could soon substituted with "Linux."