Enterprise applications for Linux

Netcraft August Web server report: Apache down, Microsoft up

The executive summary for Netcraft's latest Web server market share report says it all: "Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position." Or does it? The

Virtual directories: Identity management and data integration panacea or placebo?

Virtualizing directories is an increasingly-deployed technique for handling some identity management issues, secure data sharing and centralization of data resources. Among other things, a virtual directory enables integration of user identity information in disparate applications in an...

Replacing Microsoft Small Business Server: IT pro asks for open source software alternatives

David Crook, a consultant and 20-year IT veteran, has issued a challenge -- via SearchEnterpriseLinux.com -- to the open source community. He tells me he has a shiny new IBM xSeries server "sitting idle waiting for something to make its life a little less boring." His first thought was to install...

Linux application server landscape shifts, but still beats proprietary software

We're working on another series at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com: application servers! We want to know what's new, what people are using, and why. We want to get the bottom of how things have changed over the past few years because, basically, a few years in technology is like 10 years to everyone...

IBM’s second annual open source analyst meeting

Take one multi-billion dollar company, add a sprinkling of inquisitive analysts and a smattering of open source software, and you'll have the annual IBM open source analyst briefing, which happened last week. Analyst Joe Clabby, who's...

Watch out Oracle — MySQL rising (to 40%)

From Stephen Shankland over at CNET comes good news for MySQL fans:

You now can discard any lingering traces of doubt that the open-source MySQL database competes with the incumbent proprietary products from Oracle, Microsoft...

Lotus-on-Linux notes: Money talks; beta is betta’

Today I talked to Red Hat integrator Troy Webb -- managing partner, InCentric Solutions, LLC -- and Lotus on Linux was the first subject he brought up. Turns out Lotus on Linux has a big money angle in two ways. InCentric has helped about a dozen businesses moving Lotus off Windows and onto RHEL4...

Zend Technologies Updates Zend Core

Another post, another list. I've been told blogs, like Letterman, love lists. Zend Core 2.0 updates include:

• Certified PHP, extensions, database drivers, web services support and all other components required to...

Of Linux migrations and interoperability with Windows

Complete ousters of an operating system from any IT environment are pretty rare in this day and age of heterogeneous data centers, but I managed to find one in Northern California at the Windsor Unified School District. The IT staff there was tasked by school...