"Basically, we were uncomfortable making our customers choose what to run our software on," says Craig Downing, vice president of product management at AccPac, which was recently acquired by rival ...

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has officially released the beta version of Ubuntu 25.10, codenamed "Questing Quokka". This is a big deal because it's the last ...

Long time IBM watchers must have a good natured laugh when they see headlines like: “IBM announces large mainframe-based Linux win.” Ten years ago such a headline would have been laughed at as some ...

When Joe Poole looks at his IBM zSeries mainframe, he doesn’t just see a powerful system running traditional corporate workloads. He sees a distributed Linux environment that’s starting to save his ...

RECENTLY, I accompanied one of my colleagues on a trip to visit two companies competing to provide back-end services for InfoWorld. One of the companies has been doing business with InfoWorld for ...

Ruth Schall remembers when vendors and fellow IT directors would look at her network and scratch their heads. “I would get calls, and people would think we were freaks. They’d say, ‘What are you doing ...

Linus Torvalds officially announced the stable release of the Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. Its arrival was delayed for a few hours, Torvalds said, "because of a last-minute bug report resulting ...

The KDE team has released KDE Plasma 6, the biggest update to the free and open source desktop environment since Plasma 5 launched nearly ten years ago. Those changes should have a big impact on ...

I read an interesting article this morning on Canonical’s usability testing of offline e-mail readers Evolution and Thunderbird and wondered “who cares?” The thrust of the article was whether or not ...