Chris Stone, Novell's vice chairman and a key leader of its transformation into a Linux company, resigned from the company Thursday. Novell declined to comment on the reasons for Stone's departure.

As the No. 1 dog in the Linux market, Red Hat gets most of the attention when it makes big moves, such as its fairly recent decision to back OpenStack and reaching the $1 billion milestone. But the ...

Software pioneer Bill Gates always wanted a PC on every desk in the world, but we aren't quite sure he envisioned it happening like this. In much the same way as the cellphone industry took off in the ...

Depending who you ask, you’ll get a different answer about who’s winning the operating system wars. Of course, the Linux people think they’ve won, but here’s the thing–they may be right. Speaking to ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Look for personal computer users to soon get their hardware in the same way that they get their cell phones: for free as part of telecommunications service subscriptions, the executive director of the ...

VMware has been criticized for not embracing open source technology with the same zeal as some of its competitors in the enterprise technology market, but a new hire suggests the vendor is serious ...