It sounds like an exciting time to be at Red Hat. Its operating systems business continues to thrive, while its middleware business heads into overdrive. Red Hat is putting itself into a position that it could move in a number of different directions (e.g., dramatically building out its middleware business, adding applications, etc.). Success does that for a company.
In general, Linux seems to have a stronger popularity in the East than in the West, with some exceptions (like Cuba). This is perhaps not surprising, considering that it is free software and many of the countries where Linux is most popular have a relatively low income per capita compared to most countries in the West. Or perhaps there is just a stronger focus on free software and Open Source in these regions.
Pure, the British company best known for its DAB digital radios, has launched its first radio capable of receiving internet stations along with an iTunes-like web-based media portal it has dubbed the ‘Pure Lounge’.
One of the things that Microsoft has been silently beating Linux over the head with for the past couple of years is that, since Linux works so well on older, and lower end PC's, it is an inferior, obsolete, and outdated OS. I find FUD like this to be a bit annoying, as the inverse is true of Windows.
I love the GIMP because, like Perl, it makes the easy jobs easy and the hard jobs possible.
