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Linux: A very popular open source operating system that runs on a variety of hardware platforms including x86, Itanium, PowerPC, ARM and IBM's entire product line. Based on many design...; Full Linux Definition >>

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Getting your new Unix server: I know a dozen or more people who work as Unix sysadmins for big organizations in which most of the really critical stuff runs on Unix, but Windows get pretty nearly all of the money, all the people, and all the attention. In every case the Unix gear is either...; Tags: productivity, linux, infrastructure, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-08-01
Unopposable Linux vs immovable ignorance: Last week's discussions on why desktop Linux often fails in big organizations drew, among many knowledgeable comments, this note from "webninja": Interoperability and integrationI tried Linux at home for a couple months, just to see how real it was as an alternative. The one...; Tags: productivity, linux, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-07-31
Leveraging Linux to sell yourself: If you work at a fairly junior level in the typical corporate IT environment your bosses will probably be treating you as a technician of categorised skills whose opinions and expertise outside of the narrow job box they have you in are neither of interest nor of value. Basically...; Tags: strategy, productivity, linux, infrastructure, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Appliance computing: Last week's comment on the increasing futility of fighting the PC security wars on current terms drew a comment from a discussion contributor I don't remember hearing much from before. Here's part of what "Gary" had to say: The problem is that we're fighting...; Tags: productivity, linux, infrastructure, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Why desktop Linux fails in big organizations: I believe that the key reason Unix hasn't taken over the generic office desktop has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the people and processes involved.Thus the generic corporate PC user I talked about yesterday would be completely unaffected if someone snuck in overnight and...; Tags: enterprise policy, linux, productivity; Blog posts 2007-07-25

Trying to clarify the Sun Ray difference: Frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht had this to say last week in response to my comment that the Sun Ray does no processing and isn't, therefore, a client-server client: thin, fat, or otherwise: Smart, Thick, Thin, DisplayIt's all word games. Depending on how you define...; Tags: sun, security, linux, hardware, government, deploying sun rays, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-07-17
Staffing for Linux, not distribution X: Back in the mid to late 1970s the battle for control of corporate IT was in full swing. One side, the corporate data processing group in Finance, maintained an almost absolute ideological purity with deep commitments to one vendor and the One Right Way while, on the other, line...; Tags: standards, linux, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-07-10
Compromise: Compromise is generally considered to be a good thing: you have one agenda, I have another, but a compromise provides the middle road we can both support. Right? Not always, and almost never on strategic or design issues.In both cases a compromise means that somebody's holistic vision of what something...; Tags: enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-07-09
Mainframes, IFL, and Linux: (Note: This is a re-run - from May 16, 2006)The IFL, or integrated facility for Linux, is a mainframe CPU license that's limited to running Linux.Novel has yet to post SuSe licensing costs for the new z9 series mainframes, but charged $13,999 per year per "processing engine" on the...; Tags: linux, general, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-07-02
Laptop insecurities: Last Thursday's issue of an Information Week newsletter I get included an editorial comment by CMP editor Barbara Krasnoff about the problem that data on laptops can be examined by airport security and other government agents on the pretence of looking for prohibited classes of pornography or other materials.As she...; Tags: sun, security, linux, enterprise policy, development; Blog posts 2007-06-28
Distance makes the switch go quicker: Which is a better sign of open source progress: Microsoft is changing Vista, based on a Google complaint. A major British retail chain switches to RedHat Linux.I think it's the latter. Because in all our talk about desktop Linux' market share, we're focusing on the wrong people.While most reporters, and most commenters,...; Tags: resellers, marketing, infrastructure, enterprise policy, development, applications; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Shadows over Linux: Do you know what NexentaOS is? It's an example of things to come, things that scare IBM and Red Hat: a complete ZFS bootable openSolaris distribution combining the Gnu and other open source utilities with a Solaris kernel -and it's downloadable free of charge from opensolaris.org.Right now it's an early...; Tags: sun, linux, general, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Xandros deal is Microsoft water torture strategy: Long-time readers of this blog may remember how two years ago I sat down to lunch with Marc Fleury, then running JBoss.Fleury was celebrating because he'd signed a re-sale agreement with Microsoft. The deal was superior to one IBM offered, he told me, in that it did not interfere with his...; Tags: strategy, resellers, patents, microsoft, management, linux server os, linux desktop os, linux, legal, enterprise policy, distributions; Blog posts 2007-06-05
Microsoft forces hard questions on open source: A Microsoft spokesperson "confirmed it has no immediate plans to sue" over patents. In a statement mailed to ZDNet UK, Microsoft confirmed it would not litigate for now.No immediate plans. For now.Open source is getting played.Microsoft is holding a sword over the head of all open source users, and all...; Tags: development, enterprise policy, general, legal, linux, management, mass market, microsoft, patents, strategy; Blog posts 2007-05-24
Chess is not Checkers: The other night I went to sleep thinking about Gödels incompleteness theorem as a kind of juvenile twaddle: a quailing in the face of the infinite more appropriate to Mahler than Bach - and apparently got up somewhat later to celebrate of one of those mid night...; Tags: linux, general, enterprise policy; Blog posts 2007-04-30
Linux silly season hits Dell: When Dell says "lets have a conversation" the company really means exactly what Hillary Clinton does.Show me the money.Instead, Dell has this questionnaire. Asks where Dell should put its Linux -- on what model computers. It asks which Linux you prefer.Its nonsense.Linux isnt Windows. Open source is not something you...; Tags: open source, unix, operating systems, dell computer corp., linux; Blog posts 2007-03-14
An army of lawyer ants face GPL Version 3 decision: The folks at eWeek report that Sun will release OpenSolaris under GPL v. 3 when that license becomes final, probably some time this spring. The current version of the draft is dated September, and runs to about 4,400 words, as against 2,500 for the current Version 2 license, which came...; Tags: general, linux, software licensing, enterprise policy, legal, strategy, linux desktop os, linux server os, publishing, digital-rights management, version 3; Blog posts 2007-01-17
SCO bankruptcy called imminent: Groklaw reports, quoting documents filed by Novell, that SCOs bankruptcy is "inevitable" and "imminent."Novell was replying PDF to SCOs opposition to its motion for summary judgement, which could end the case. Pamela Jones of Groklaw also says the documents hint Microsoft and Sun were actually buying SCOSource licenses, and that...; Tags: general, linux, software licensing, enterprise policy, legal, patents, microsoft, management, novell inc., sco group inc.; Blog posts 2007-01-09
Linux war over was most read story on open source blog: The most read story on the open source blog this year was last months link to an IBM-sponsored study with the provocative headline The War is Over and Linux Won.The evidence was a study, sent by our SOA expert Joe McKendrick, indicating that most enterprise managers plan to increase their...; Tags: operating systems, unix, microsoft windows, linux, blog, open source; Blog posts 2006-12-19
Linux management was 2nd most-read item of 2006 at open source blog: My February piece on a survey claiming Linux is no tougher to manage than Windows was the 2nd most read item on this blog in 2006.The survey of 200 managers was sponsored by Levanta, which produces a Linux-based change management product. The item drew 7 trackbacks and numerous comments, concluding...; Tags: microsoft windows, blogging, operating systems, unix, open source, linux, linux is, blog; Blog posts 2006-12-18