Linux will be the major server operating system by 2009, at the expense of proprietary Unix operating systems from HP, IBM and Sun.
It's starting to look like 2001 will be the year Linux gets down to business. Systems managers who used to ask how the open source code crept in the back door now ask if they can get the server to run it through the front door.
A new server survey from Netcraft finds that administrators are taking their time patching e-commerce servers, potentially leaving them open to newly discovered attacks.
Web services security specialist Forum Systems has teamed up with Computer Associates to create an antivirus device to protect XML applications, an area expected to see a rise in attacks.
Internet Security Systems (ISS) are today claiming the compromise of one of their servers by malicious hackers over the weekend was set-up by the company as a part of a research project.
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Reading the news via the handy (though often-ignored) AvantGo on my Pocket PC recently, I encountered an advertisement for a white paper from Microsoft offering a case study on costs of ownership for Linux versus Windows. This has the potential to be either informative or tragic, I said to myself, as I chose to download a copy.
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Linux will be the major server operating system by 2009, at the expense of proprietary Unix operating systems from HP, IBM and Sun.
A new server survey from Netcraft finds that administrators are taking their time patching e-commerce servers, potentially leaving them open to newly discovered attacks.
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Academic says the operating systems of the future will be called Windows and Linux, no matter what they look like.
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.
Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, says that using a server for multiple tasks on different operating systems not only reduces datacentre clutter, it makes deploying new applications easier -- and also has "green benefits".
Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.
Microsoft this week gave customers a look at forthcoming development and management tools that are part of the company's long-term plans for the product.
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These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
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