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    Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC.

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    So, just what does services heavyweight Electronic Data Systems (EDS) really think of Linux?

  • Linux deviation impedes developers

    Commercial software vendors have a legitimate beef with the current state of Linux. There are three ways to build an application that runs on multiple distributions of Linux, none of them particularly smooth. Didn't we already go through this with Unix?

  • Xbox update shuts out Linux

    An automatic update for Xbox users removes a bug that allowed users to run Linux on their machines.

  • Open source community needs unity

    This week, I asked Linux Australia (LA) vice-president Pia Waugh to elaborate on her recent remarks to a conference about code and culture in the open source community.

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    Competing players are trying to integrate Java development tools, in the face of well-organised competition from Microsoft.

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