IT Blog As a journalist, I get perturbed when I see talking heads on TV (on issues political, technological or otherwise) "attack the messenger" when the message they're delivering isn't something they agree with. The theory is, of course, that if you can discredit the person, then the public will not focus...
IT Blog In an obvious swipe at its larger rival, Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. crowed this week that SUSE Linux Enterprise has surpassed all other Linux distros with 2,500 vendor-certified applications running on top of its operating system. If true, this would be quite astonishing since Raleigh, N.C....
IT Blog This post was contributed to by Pam Derringer, News Writer On the third anniversary of the 2006 Microsoft-Novell pact, Novell is touting 475 customers who have bought SUSE Linux Enterprise certificates from Microsoft under the settlement. Under the controversial agreement, Novell agreed to give Mic...
IT Blog This morning I was sipping my coffee and browsing what my Twitter friends were saying, when I discovered some big news had been released today. Urged by customer demand and OEM concerns, Red Hat and Microsoft have announced a virtualization interoperability partnership. Matt Asay, a fellow Twitterer...
IT Blog Looking for an interoperability hook at the Red Hat RHEL5 party in San Francisco took me down two familiar paths as Paul Cormier, Red Hat vice president of engineering, said that virtualization via the guest OS and Samba were the mainstays of their virtually non-existent interop program. During the...
IT Blog 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 else...
IT Blog Last week, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com editorial director Jan Stafford mentioned that the new Microsoft Windows Server 2008, which launched on February 27, has features designed to give it a Linux feel: Any new Microsoft OS prompts Linux users to scratch their heads and ask, "Why pay lots to upgrade f...
IT Blog Today's featured member, Orangehat, has all kinds of experience, dating back 36 years: Starting in mainframes, he's worked with Novell, Windows, Linux, and Unix. He also has an array of certifications, though not all of them are current anymore, from CNA to CNE, MCNE, CCNA, OCP, and more! No wonder ...
IT Blog The VMware Certified Professional exam isn't the easiest exam in the world, nor the hardest (many diverge on whether Red Hat, Citrix, or Cisco win that title for their premier certification levels), but it's rapidly becoming one of the most sought-after enterprise certifications available. Since I'm...
IT Blog SearchSecurity.com's Carolyn Gibney interviews David Foote of Foote Partners on his latest skills and certification data. Foote says there's reason for those in the security industry to be optimistic.