Since assuming the mantle of leadership of MySQL AB in 2001, M�rten Mickos has steered the database software company from open source darling to open source powerhouse, multiplying revenue some twentyfold in a very short time. On the eve of the release of MySQL 5.0, Linux Magazine spoke with Mickos about the unique challenges of running the decidedly unique — and very successful — software company. Read More »

With MySQL 5 now widely available, the MySQL founder weighs in on the competition, the future of the MySQL database, and how to manage contributed code. Here’s ten questions with the co-founder and CTO of MySQL AB. Read More »

Asterisk PBX changed the way teleco viewed Linux and Open Source. Things may never be the same. Read More »

Last week, CodeWeavers issued a "Installer Challenge" to improve Wine "until it can run nearly every Windows program."

This sounded promising, so we asked CodeWeavers Founder and CEO Jeremy White to talk to us about the challenge, as well as the state of Wine and CodeWeavers. White had a lot to say about Wine, the state of the Linux desktop and more.

LM: So, first of all, give us a little background on the Installer Challenge.

Yeah, and basically the challenge is that we're trying to take Wine to that next level, we have for the last several years, really focused on a fairly small footprint of applications, making those work well and being glad and hoping that other things would work as well, collateral damage, as I like to call it. Read More »

2.6 is coming, and Andrew Morton, a modest, humble, approachable, and very capable system software developer is leading the charge. Hand-picked by Linus Torvalds for the task, Morton talks about the next production kernel, the kernel development process, and what would happen if SCO won its case against IBM. Read More »

With over two million downloads in 2002, JBoss is arguably the de facto standard for deploying Java-based Web applications. With its advanced features, microkernel architecture, full implementation of the J2EE stack, and an unbeatable price (it's free, available as source code released under the Lesser Gnu Public License), JBoss -- like Linux and Apache -- has been widely adopted by developers and corporate IT departments. Read More »

He may be benevolent and he may be delegating more work, but the Linux kernel remains Linus's project. Read More »

Linux and Open Source have become a key part of Hewlett-Packard's market strategy. HP's chairman, Carly Fiorina, tells us why. Read More »

Jabber stands on the brink of becoming a general-purpose mechanism for allowing people, devices, and programs to interact. How will it play with .NET? Jeremie Miller, Jabber's inventor, offers his thoughts. Read More »

Bruce Perens is one of Linux's most visible evangelists. Here he shares his views on everything from open source challenges HP faces to the danger the term Open Source poses to Free Software. Read More »

Dirk Hohndel, SuSE's CTO, shares his thoughts on the differences between the Read More »

Samba has been called Linux's stealth weapon -- the killer app that allows Linux to replace Windows file servers. Samba's creator, Andrew Tridgell, talks about the origins of Samba and the future of Open Source. Read More »

Dennis Ritchie, the father of the C programming language and one of the co-creators of Unix, shares his thoughts on the open source development model, Linux, and the legacy of Unix. Read More »

ActiveState is a company that will have a profound impact on the future of Open Source. Dick Hardt, the company's CEO, shares his thoughts on the future of scripting languages and Web programming. Read More »

Don't call it the next Microsoft. If things go Bob Young's way, people will think of Red Hat as the Wal-Mart of the open source world. Read More »

Though his company publishes some of the best Linux books out there, Tim O'Reilly says Apache, not Linux, is the battle ground for the open source revolution. Read More »

The guys who gave Linux its very own 800 number look to serve the Fortune 1000, without losing perspective. Read More »

Richard M. Stallman, the Founding Father of Free Software, discusses the Free Software movement and its political philosophy. Read More »

"It wasn't that I wanted to change the world; I wanted to make Linux freely available, but there wasn't any deep philosophical thinking behind it. I want to have fun in my life... I want to do something that matters." Linus Torvalds shares his thoughts on Linux, Microsoft, and life in Silicon Valley. Read More »