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by Sam Varghese
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Tuesday, 02 January 2007 |
You'll see these words in more than one article penned by the pundits. Every year since about 2003 has been called the year of the Linux desktop - and then, when that fails to transpire, those who predict these things set about rehashing their predictions for the next year.
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by Sam Varghese
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
The deal which Microsoft and Novell signed in November has started showing some positive results - for Microsoft.
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by Sam Varghese
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006 |
The Debian Project has missed the target date for release of version 4.0 of its GNU/Linux distribution. And thereby hangs a fairly long tale, with money being at the centre.
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by Sam Varghese
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Monday, 18 December 2006 |
Open source company MySQL AB, which puts out the well-known database of the same name, has made a couple of moves this year, both of which have passed without much comment.
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by Sam Varghese
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Friday, 15 December 2006 |
It's often difficult to figure out the motivation behind a particular study - until one finds out who has commissioned and paid for it. The so-called tech consulting companies would love it if the consumer believes that they have conducted an "independent" study. The worrying thing is that not many people blow their cover.
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by Sam Varghese
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
You know that a company is on its last legs trying to prove something when it turns to surveys in order to drive home a point. Novell has reached that stage in trying to plug its deal with Microsoft.
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by Sam Varghese
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Monday, 11 December 2006 |
A non-profit organisation that describes itself as "the centre of gravity of Linux" has just gone through its second round of sackings in as many years though on the surface it does not seem to be exactly short of funds.
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by Sam Varghese
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Friday, 08 December 2006 |
There are many things about GNU/Linux which merit complaint. But it is extremely doubtful whether anyone can find anything to complain about with regards to the versatile nature of the operating system.
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by Sam Varghese
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
It is difficult to find a better case of bad timing than Novell's announcement this week that it would be implementing support for Microsoft's OpenXML format in its (Novell's) version of OpenOffice.org.
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by Sam Varghese
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Monday, 04 December 2006 |
Next April, the Ubuntu Foundation will complete three years and six releases of its GNU/Linux distribution. It will also be the point at which the project begins to acquire a distinctly commercial hue.
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by Sam Varghese
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Friday, 01 December 2006 |
Visbility is everything these days. Even if you're not really doing much, you can easily give the impression of running the show.
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