IT Blog What are Red Hat, Novell and Canonical going to have to do in2008 to in order to dominate the desktop and server Linux market? Let's take a moment and assess the situation. Red Hat is the dominant force in Linux right now. They own the enterprise market. SUSE is also supported by many IHVs as a ...
IT Blog CNET news is reporting that Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik is stepping down effective January 1st and handing control of the world's most popular enterprise Linux provider to former Delta airlines COO James Whitehurst. The article reassures us that Mr. Whitehurst is a good pick, as he used to be a progr...
IT Blog Yesterdays news that Oracle had entered an agreement to buy Sun sent a bit of a shock wave through the open source community. After weeks of pondering what an IBM buyout of Sun would mean, the IT community now had an entirely different scenario unfolding. The news was the first thing I noticed w...
IT Blog MySQL execs took to the road this week, talking up the database's increasing relevance to big businesses. The message at a Boston event Tuesday night, was that Sun Microsystems' buyout of the open source database company gives MySQL easier entry into very large accounts. "We're getting in to see For...
IT Blog Consider this the second in an occasional, meandering series of articles on Linux done right. These arent meant to boost the sales of any particular vendor, but instead are meant to show other end users, IT managers and decision makers what to look for when vetting applications and operating syst...
disaster recovery, Backup & recovery, Hardware issues IT Blog LAS VEGAS - There was a big push at this year's HP Technology Forum to convince end users to migrate off other systems to HP servers. This was my first year at the event, so I'm not sure if it was something new or not, but it was readily apparent. For example, on all the computers at the event wher...
IT Blog The Wizard, by user seanmcgrath on Flickr. Last week, we wrote about some early storage industry predictions for 2010 from analysts and users, but more industry experts have since checked in with their outlooks for the coming year. Here are a few of the themes from these latest predictions from Sy...
IT Blog Jesse at SanGod wrote an interesting post the other day entitled "Enterprise storage vs....not." I have a cousin. Very well-to-do man, owns a company that does something with storing and providing stock data to other users. I don't pretent do know the details of the business, but what I do know is t...
Strategic storage vendors, Data storage management IT Blog With Oracle and the European Commission(EC) on the verge of reaching agreement over the former's proposed possession of MySQL, hopefully this is the last time I talk about the latter's confounding lack of understanding about the open source market. While the EC has now spent well over three month...
Oracle-Sun deal, MySQL, European Commission IT Blog Over the past few months I've heard some mixed reviews from Oracle end users about Oracle's support services. Some folks I've spoken with say they get upset with certain Oracle support representatives who seem to be inexperienced. One person even went so far as to say that he purposely tries to ge...
Oracle database administration, Managing an Oracle shop, Oracle applications IT Blog The other day I stumbled across a blog post titled In defense of SQL -- in this post, blogger Kenneth Downs asks, So am I the only one who likes SQL? Is he? Apparently SQL has a bad rap among development languages -- people tolerate it because they figure they have to, but they think it...
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