That's one upshot of Thursday's settlement between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, according to industry analysts who predict that the Netscape browser--currently at version 7.02--will now move from a neglected orphan of AOL Time Warner to a candidate for euthanasia.

Opera Software today released Opera 7 for Linux, offering Linux users a faster and better Internet

experience. The new version includes major new features changes from Opera 6 for Linux as well as a

built-in e-mail client, not previously available in Opera for Linux.

The president of India added to a growing foreign-relations headache for Microsoft with a speech in which he advocated broader adoption of open-source software.

Business application powerhouse SAP is tapping MySQL's open-source database software in a deal that should let the smaller company accelerate its development plans.

It’s being billed as the solution that will deliver the masses from computer illiteracy. And so it was hardly surprising when a recent MAIT-organised seminar on “Open Source Software: A New Direction for India?” drew a larger-than-expected audience that stayed on till the very end.

He came, he saw, but did he conquer? The hush-hush visit of IBM chairman Samuel J Palmisano (51) to India for the first time last week stirred a hornet's nest and made the IT industry wonder about the Big Blue's game plan in the Indian sub-continent.

Linux has improved significantly in the last two years, a new study released Thursday has found, with a version from SuSE edging out that of rival Red Hat in the businesses features race.

Citrix has outlined plans to develop a Linux version of one of its key security products--because customers believe that using Windows servers for access systems exposes them to too many security risks.

Despite SCO's warning to businesses that their use of the open-source operating system may make them liable for breach of copyright, Meta Group is more positive.

IBM is shedding light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a leaning toward the Linux operating system.