Linux versus Windows

Why Novell fan left NetWare, SUSE behind

Leaving Novell, despite years of loyalty, for Red Hat Linux At Red Hat Summit last week, I talked to a Novell NetWare diehard whose relationship with and love for Novell died, well, hard. This is...

Microsoft’s patent FUD –> target Red Hat?

Comments made today by LinuxToday editor Brian Proffit on his blog The Hoosier Penguin resonate with what IP attorney John Rabena told me yesterday in our interview, "

Microsoft ramps up the FUD machine

Is Microsoft becoming the next SCO? Linux-Watch.com seems to think so, especially in light of this...

Oracle, IBM, NEC to market Linux in Japan

Some international Linux-related news for you this afternoon:

Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to...

Friday Fun: Linux and Microsoft get together

Microsoft and Linux, together at last! [Via

Nagios map in pictures — plus CentOS!

Microsoft’s Port 25 turns one year old

It seems like only yesterday that Microsoft's Bill Hilf was calling for calm on Port 25, a Web site the guys in Redmond set up to give readers a look inside the Microsoft Open Source Software...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

I wasn't actually at th Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 launch today (I watched the webcast), so I have no idea if there were balloons or clowns, but from the look of their web site, I am quite certain that someone from their marketing department has...

Linux servers are green servers

Unfortunately, I think I am like a lot of people in that I don't really think about what happens to a server when it's time to send it off to that big happy data center in the sky. In reality, that big happy place is oftentimes a landfill, into which the

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...