IT Blog At CIO.com today, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth gives a nice year-ending top ten list on a topic he's surely familiar with on the most intimate of levels: Ubuntu. More specifically, Shuttleworth talks about the Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Best for Enterprise Use. In the list Shuttleworth runs d...
IT Blog In the world of open source cloud computing few topics have collected more attention recently than the ongoing development of OpenStack, the cloud computing project launched by NASA and Rackspace. So, some people may not have been too surprised when Canonical said last week that OpenStack, and not E...
IT Blog If a Linux distribution is not named after a Red Hat, does it still exist? Do sports teams improve their chances with Linux-inspired monikers? Do Linux administrators need to learn fencing to keep up with the tech industry? No, I'm not trying to throw you back into the fog that was the college phil...
IT Blog LinuxCon 2009 wrapped up on Wednesday evening with an Intel-sponsored party at McCormick and Schmick's in Portland, Ore. This was the final, and flashiest of three evening events that occurred during the course of the event. Monday night featured "Bowling for Penguins" at Grand Central Bowling, a fu...
IT Blog The hype around cloud computing may have subsided, but the issues around adapting and adopting the underlying model are as hot as ever. The enterprise IT headline of the week in The Wall Street Journal was, after all, that IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems. Why? GigaOm thinks IBM wants to bols...