The tax authority in Lower Saxony, Germany is migrating 12,000 desktops to SuSE Linux and the open source KDE desktop. The project, which is moving the taxmen's PCs onto open software, is "one of the ...

The company running the German railway system has moved half of its servers to Linux, and expects to have more than 300 Linux servers in operation by the end of this year. The company responsible for ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

TUXEDO Computers is rebasing TUXEDO OS on Debian, moving away from Ubuntu. The German Linux hardware company launched TUXEDO ...

German open-source software company SuSE has been ordered by a Munich court to stop distributing copies of its Linux software in Germany. Lawyer G?nter Freiherr von Gravenreuth was awarded a temporary ...

A German state has signed a major contract with Novell for the supply of Linux server and desktop products to 33 universities. North Rhine-Westphalia has selected Novell for the supply of its IT ...

Following a recent pilot, the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein has made the decision to move away from Microsoft products, and begin using Linux and LibreOffice on its 30,000 PCs. In a ...

It's been nearly a month since the strains of the 175 th Oktoberfest died down, but the reasons to celebrate live on. Behind the scenes at the Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office), the diplomats are ...

Momentum to migrate from Microsoft Corp. products to open-source software is rapidly gaining in Germany, where numerous companies are reacting to the U.S. software giant’s licensing policy. Small and ...

The SCO Group Inc. has resigned its membership in a German Linux association after the group asked the company to provide more information about its recent claims that some of its Unix code has ...

The German Federal Finance Office has implemented what its technology supplier, IBM Corp., is calling one of the largest Linux-based mainframe deployments in Europe. The Berlin-based authority has ...

The first court fine was issued in the SCO/IBM Linux legal saga recently, but it wasn’t in a U.S. court. A court in Germany ruled that SCO must pay 10,000 Euros ($10,800) in damages for violating a ...