France awards contract for secure Linux system
556622
A five-company consortium has been awarded a â¬7 million three-year contract by the French Ministry of Defence to build a Linux-based multi-level secure operating system.
581266
France Telecom makes 'substantial and significant' investment
302970
Red Hat has announced a partnership with Unisys and the availability of security updates to their Enterprise Linux offering today.
666617
(InfoWorld) - European car manufacturing giant PSA Peugeot CitroÃ«n has agreed to one of the Continent's largest-ever deployments of open-source Linux software on desktop computers. As part of a multiyear contract with Novell, the French company will install Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop on up to 20,000 computers in addition to 2,500 servers, the U.S. software vendor said Tuesday. The announcement comes on the same day thatÂ Microsoft's new Vista operating system and Office 2007 software suite become commercially available for consumers. Charles King, principle analyst with Pund-IT, a technology research firm, referred to the size of the Novell contract with Peugeot CitroÃ«n as "significant" and the timing of the announcement as "very interesting." "The migration to Vista will require a significant hardware upgrade," King said. "The costs associated with this upgrade will open the door for companies to consider alternatives." Officials from Peugeot CitroÃ«n were unavailable for comment, but Novell said in a statement, quoting an IT representative from the French company, that support for Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop and the user-friendly design of the software were key factors in the selection process. The opportunity to lower IT costs through open-source software almost certainly had to be another factor, King said. Novell provided no financial details of the contract. With Vista and Office being powerful IT tools, King believes that many companies will start asking themselves what sort of functionality their employees need on their desktop computers and, equally important, what they are willing to pay for this functionality. With Vista and Office 2007, King warned, some companies could be purchasing way more functionality then they need. "Let me put it this way: Do you need a Ferrari to go to the neighborhood shopping store when a mini-van will do?" he said.
25291
The French Ministry of Defense has signed up Paris-based Linux vendor Madrakesoft SA and a consortium of companies to develop a highly secure Linux operating system for business, defense and government uses.
683235
The consortium plans to make bringing Linux up to the Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5), which is part of an internationally recognized security certification called Common Criteria, its first effort.
157631
France signed more than two billion euros (2.8 billion dollars) of civilian and military contracts with Morocco on Monday during a state visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
529793
Tresys Technology, a leader in network security technology and services, and a primary contributor to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), today released a beta version of its Tresys Brickwall(TM) Enterprise Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
534415
Novell says its deal with Microsoft is helping its Linux business.
720484
Growing importance of Linux in the enterprise is focus of event.
587682
A consortium of European companies, including Linux-distributor Mandrakesoft, has been awarded a three-year, $8.6 million contract to boost security of the open-source Linux operating system, the companies said Thursday.
308412
France, Britain and Germany announced today that they had reached a formal agreement with Iran that commits the country to suspend production of enriched uranium in exchange for an array of possible rewards.
509673
The pact was seen as an affirmation of the importance of Microsoft's competitor, Linux, and of the need to satisfy corporate customers who want to run both operating systems.
714356
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50021)  has announced the addition of "Computer  Hardware in France" to their offering.
312265
TechWeb - Chipmaker provides Linux tools to reach growing market there.
548447
German state signs contract with Novell for the supply of Linux server and desktop products to schools serving 560,000 students.
97523
PARIS - A group of European research institutions and open-source software companies has launched an effort to build new tools that will make it easier to do complex IT projects based on Linux and other open-source software, they said this week.