The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
Microsoft reached an agreement that will allow its Windows operating system, with which most people are familiar, to work with the open source Linux system used by rival Novell.
Linux, the free, open source operating system, continues to hover at a little over one percent.
The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
The company has one product called Acquia Network, which is a set of tools and services for companies using the open source Drupal system.
Linux is an open source operating system developed by independent and corporate programmers worldwide which has much of the functionality of the powerful Unix system.
Competition from rival open source operating system, Linux, is stalling Microsoft's growth in the server market, but desktop dominance remains intact: Windows installed in 94% of PCs being sold.
She says her firm's use of Google's open source Android system should change that, but adds that she wants to see more than just ports of games designed to run on tablets and phones.
With the amount of digital data in data centers growing annually and storage budgets highly constrained open source storage system designs can fill an important niche for data centers and IT people comfortable with installing and maintaining their own hardware.
Much advice on offer online suggests souping up the specification of a netbook so it can run Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, rather than the free, open-source Linux system that is offered as standard on many netbooks.
China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry.
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With the increasing popularity of the open-source operating system, customer demands on Linux are changing, Dryhoff said.
Or having the integrated, open-source software system that allows access to the two 300 Legacy systems of software.
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So an open-source operating system like Android will do well in this market because they save on licensing fees.
Our third leading performer was Novell, ahead 40%, now shifting into supporting users of the Linux open-source operating system.
The fate of Meego, a joint venture with Intel to create an open-source operating system, is less clear.
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Upstart Linux, the open-source operating system that Microsoft speaks of so fearfully, currently runs less than 3% of all PCs.
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Ouya promises an open source Android operating system, and made early headlines by saying that the console would be completely hackable.
There are ubuntu education funds, ubuntu tents at development conferences, ubuntu villages, an ubuntu university - and it's now the name of an open-source operating system.
Google decided to make Android an open-source operating system, which meant that third parties could take the code, tweak it for their own needs, and sell competing Android-based products.
Still, that has not deterred other vendors from experimenting, or at least considering the open-source operating system, as multiple reports of Firefox, Sailfish, and Tizen plan to release new Linux-based experiences in the future.
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Last month at Mobile World Congress the company said it was on track to bring out a phone that runs on the Tizen open-source operating system that it has helped develop in collaboration with Intel.
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Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and software boss, regards this interface crisis as one of the biggest challenges for his firm, alongside the security holes in Windows and, perhaps, the threat from Linux, an open-source operating system.
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Dries Buytaert is chief technology officer at Acquia, a commercial open source software company providing products, services and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
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Its Sparc computer chip and Solaris operating system have been made less relevant by Microsoft Windows, Intel chips and the open-source Linux operating system.
As a rival open-source mobile operating system, Symbian was often compared to Android, sometimes unfavorably.
Apple should also consider including support for the open-source Linux operating system, as well as Unix variants.
Other areas of focus include MeeGo, the open-source mobile operating system that Intel and Nokia are jointly developing.
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