Companies used to give away pens, squishy balls and coffee cups to worm their ways into the hearts of customers. Now, they pass out database software.
Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings.
IBM's iSeries servers have had the biggest announcement since the line was launched. But will users stick with it now it is cheaper and more Linux-friendly?
As the proprietary systems disappear, should we miss them? Some at least are pleased to see IBM's iSeries has at least a bit more life to it.
With dozens of Linux distributions to choose from, it can be difficult to select the distribution that’s right for a particular environment. How do Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE measure up?
As we embark on a new year, the industry hype-machine is slowly warming up to sell us new technologies that will make our jobs easier in 2007. Rest assured though that some problems will remain, like spam.
Is securify a real word? Of course not. It is a term I first heard during a press conference when global services firm EDS was announcing its Agility Alliance in Sydney last March.
After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.
Many network administrators new to Linux find it hard to transition from a point-and-click security configuration interface to one based on editing complicated and hard-to-locate text files. Here are seven easy things administrators can and should do to make their Linux server more secure and significantly reduce the risk they face.
To encourage the broadest possible support for its forthcoming "Storage Tank" technology, IBM will release an open-source version of the software needed to let servers tap into the next-generation storage system.
Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings.
With dozens of Linux distributions to choose from, it can be difficult to select the distribution that’s right for a particular environment. How do Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE measure up?
Ubuntu is the favourite distribution of Linux for use on both desktops and servers, according to a poll of Australian open source enthusiasts.
In an interview with News.com's Ina Fried the Microsoft chief executive talked about where Microsoft's new server products as well as relations with Brussels.
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Dell CEO Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers.
IBM's iSeries servers have had the biggest announcement since the line was launched. But will users stick with it now it is cheaper and more Linux-friendly?
With dozens of Linux distributions to choose from, it can be difficult to select the distribution that’s right for a particular environment. How do Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE measure up?
Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.
Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.
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