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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".
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Windows platform Vice President Jim Allchin tells developers and Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger that "it's time for the transition," after announcing an April release of Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
Microsoft provides Uptime to help you track your server's reliability. But have you noticed that it doesn't always produce the right answers or displays errors?
Unix has topped the popularity stakes in an IT Manager Channel poll which asked Australian tech executives to rank which server operating system they would opt for in an ideal world.
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Windows platform Vice President Jim Allchin tells developers and Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger that "it's time for the transition," after announcing an April release of Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
Now, after a year's delay, Windows .Net Server -- the mother of all Enterprise Servers--has arrived in beta form, ZDNet puts it to the test.
Sun Microsystems VP John Fowler and Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim show off the Sun Fire X4100, part of the new Galaxy family of servers.
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