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How IBM builds up its store of Linux knowledge
Monday, 06 April 2009
Ask anyone in the IT industry if they could have predicted years ago that a company like IBM would come to be known as one of the biggest users of Linux, and it's doubtful if there would be a single answer in the positive.
 
If Microsoft bought Novell, it wouldn't come as a surprise
Friday, 03 April 2009
The idea that Microsoft would buy Novell isn't exactly that far-fetched. Events on April 1 have proved this.
 
Australia introduces licences for internet users
Wednesday, 01 April 2009
Internet users in Australia will have to take out licences from the next financial year else they will not be allowed to use the web, official sources told iTWire today.
 
Repeat after me: Conficker is a Windows virus
Wednesday, 01 April 2009
Over the past three days, I've heard several general news broadcasts touch on the topic of the Conficker worm, no doubt because it has been widely reported that April 1 will see some real action from this payload of really creative code.
 
Redmond backs off, settles TomTom patent suit
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Microsoft appears to have backed off from a wider confrontation with the free and open source software community by settling the alleged patent infringement case that it filed against GPS device maker TomTom last month.
 
SUSE 11 vs Windows 7: no contest
Monday, 30 March 2009
SUSE Linux 11 has been out less than 10 days but already there are comparisons of the distribution to Windows - all of which are being accepted as compliments.
 
Linux on the desktop:oh, not that debate again!
Thursday, 26 March 2009
What does one make of a statement from the chief of the biggest commercial Linux company to the effect that Linux cannot be a success on the desktop?
 
SUSE can't live with Linux, it can live with XP
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Novell's latest SUSE release, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, appears to be unable to boot from DVD on a PC on which another Linux distribution is installed. If you have Windows XP installed, the same DVD boots as it should.
 
Why it's better to buy Apple rather than Microsoft
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
You have to hand it to Steve Ballmer. The man is never short of inaccurate statistics or words to take a dig at the two rivals which Microsoft has been confronting in recent times - Apple and Linux.
 
When politics does not get in the way of FOSS
Monday, 23 March 2009
Politicians have no incentive to adopt free and open source software - not until someone writes a FOSS application that will ensure that they win the next election. But when geeks are part of a party and the party's policies are furthered by adopting FOSS, then it is a slightly different story.
 
TomTom hits back, sues Microsoft
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Portable GPS car navigation systems maker TomTom has hit back at Microsoft, filing a suit in which it alleges that the Redmond-based company's Streets and Trips software has violated four of its patents.
 
Why IDC-Novell survey is a dud
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Close on the heels of a disastous first quarter, during which it did not sign any large Linux deals, Novell has hired IDC to carry out a survey that has, predictably, come up with some results that have been well spun when being presented to the media to cast the company's prospects in a favourable light.
 
Selling open source to the powers-that-be
Monday, 16 March 2009
The idea of thinking up a hypothetical situation and then asking a group of qualified panellists to visualise how each would react to it is nothing new.
 
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