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CIO confidence; a dead cat bounce?

At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation’s chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains – is this a dead cat bounce?

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Ubuntu 10.04 to support iPod, iPhone, iPad out of the box

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Another barrier to Linux adoption is set to fall with next month’s major Ubuntu release – version 10.04, otherwise known as Lucid Lynx – bringing iPod support right out of the box.

This breakthrough is bound to be a game-changer in the land of Linux and if anything in Ubuntu 10.04 is set to make the fabled “year of the Linux desktop” come closer, this is it.

We’re talking about a new level of hardware compatibility, and not the likes of finding the right printer or WiFi adapter. Support for Apple’s range of devices will make Ubuntu more accessible to legions of potential users in one move.

Let’s step back a bit - program compatibility with Microsoft Windows has always been a major problem on the desktop. Oddly enough, users generally recognise that a Macintosh computer works differently to a Windows PC, but when it comes to Linux confidence seeps away.

This isn’t a big issue on the server side, where Linux has a strong footing – but for regular home and office users it’s a big thing to try and work with a computer that just “looks different”.

Let me illustrate and then explain what Ubuntu is doing about it.



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