IBM has announced that it will be investing more than US$200 million in the Asia-Pacific region over the next four years. The investment will see Linux-focused centres opened throughout the region, Linux-savvy service personnel deployed, and an increased focus on the operating system as a business platform.

Red Hat has more of the Linux market than its next five competitors combined, but those competitors all are increasing their share faster, a study has found.

Publicly, the new Open Source Development Lab hopes to promote Linux in the enterprise. But privately, the OSDL-funded by HP, IBM, Intel and NEC USA-may be plotting against Sun Microsystems.

IBM furthered its commitment to the open-source movement by announcing that it will contribute its AFS Enterprise File System as well as supporting programming talent, to the open-source community.

HP, Intel, IBM and NEC announced the Open Source Development Lab, the industry's first independent, non-profit lab for developers who are adding enterprise capabilities to Linux.

How Sun's StarOffice came to be unleashed on the open-source community, what StarPortal is, and what it all means for developers.

Oracle and IBM have decided to embrace the platform. Support from two such influential companies surely will make Linux a more tangible and widespread option for businesses.

Oracle is continuing its support for Linux with the rollout of its Forms Developer 6i RAD package. When coupled with Forms Server 6i, Linux developers can build and deploy highly scalable Internet database applications with Java-based user interfaces.

Red Hat Linux 6.2 was awared "Editor's Choice - First Place" for server distribution by Linux Magazine and "Best Distribution" for the third straight year at the recent LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.

People send me stuff, I put it together and test it a lot, when I think a new 2.2 is ready I send it to Linus who then reviews the code to see if there are problems or changes he doesnt like.