Wednesday - December 24, 2008
Linux has proven that the open source model works -- it addresses two of the biggest challenges for IT professionals: the high cost of infrastructure software and the limitations a closed stack imposes on the enterprise. Open source is particularly appealing for cost savings, vendor neutrality, access to source code and innovation.
Using Linux is one thing -- it is a widely used and contained piece of software -- but using open source software higher up the stack can be unnerving. Unlike the operating system, middleware components are often integrated with other components.
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Saturday - December 20, 2008
It's evolution according to Ron Hovsepian. When the CEO and president of Novell surveys the computer software industry, he sees old molds breaking, big companies getting bigger, customers demanding that barriers between different software be busted down and demands that all things high-tech be made simpler to use.
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Monday - December 15, 2008
A variety of interesting topics are usually discussed on the Linux blogs in an average week, which is why it's often so hard for us here at LinuxInsider to choose a select few to focus on in this column. Luckily for us this time around, last week was no average week.
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Friday - December 12, 2008
The Free Software Foundation filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems on Thursday, alleging the networking giant is in violation of numerous open source licenses. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Manhattan by the Boston-based nonprofit open source software group.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
The Linux operating system owes most of its popularity to the fact that it is open source software and anyone can expand or edit it. But that is proving a double-edged sword for software companies who make a loss when customers switch from commercial operating systems to Linux. So these companies try and make many of their applications incompatible with Linux.
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Monday - December 8, 2008
British residents are finding that access has been restricted to a Wikipedia page about "Virgin Killer," an album by the 1970s German rock group Scorpions. Several British Internet service providers have limited access to the page because it displays an image of the album's cover, which depicts a nude, prepubescent girl.
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Sunday - December 7, 2008
After the tech bubble burst, E*Trade's technology chief, Lee Thompson, needed to find a way to do more with less. In 2001 and 2002, the online stock trading company shrank its tech budget by one-third. "We had to go through and figure out every penny that we were spending and make alternatives to reduce those costs," says Thompson, vice-president and chief technologist of E*Trade.
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Friday - December 5, 2008
Red Hat recently scrapped plans for a massive holiday party. Instead, the Raleigh, N.C., software company will donate the money it would have spent to a food charity chosen by employees. The move comes as the slumping economy is hurting philanthropic donations and increasing demand among the needy.
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Thursday - December 4, 2008
Authorities in the southeastern Chinese city of Nanchang are requiring all local Internet cafes to replace their Microsoft Windows XP operating systems with a Chinese-made system, Red Flag Linux, according to officials and Internet cafe owners. An official with the Nanchang Cultural Discipline Team said the new operating systems were mandatory.
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Sunday - November 30, 2008
In January, James Whitehurst became president and CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat. The 41-year-old came to the software company, which sells and services the Linux open source computer operating system, from Delta Air Lines, where he was chief operating officer and had worked on, among other projects, development of the discount travel Web site Orbitz.
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