Stories by: Juha Saarinen

Users of Red Hat's Linux distribution can take some solace in Big Blue promising to keep existing support contracts going.

New Zealand vendors of Linux distributions have received requests from Red Hat to remove from their websites all trademarks, including names and meta tags, referring to the US company.

New Zealand open source advocates have attacked legal action in the US which has thrown the Linux market into confusion.

Once there was the word processor, the spreadsheet and the desktop database. In 2003 there is the Office productivity suite, or in Microsoft's case, the Office System.

Auckland ISP Orcon Internet is in the firing line of anti-spammers after a bulk email with a reference to one of its customers went out to recipients worldwide.

Another week, another security hole discovered, and even more work on top of your normal duties to plug it. Sounds familiar? Maybe it's just me, but security issues seem to make up a far greater proportion of your average sysadmin's duties than ever before.

Microsoft Corp. suffered so much deadline dilation with Windows 2000 that some analysts think it's probably the reason for Linux getting a solid foothold in the server market (latest IDC figures put the Linux share at between a quarter and a third of the NOS market, just behind Microsoft Windows NT).