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Linux Journal: The Hosting Service Provider for Superior IP Performance

When you're tasked with ensuring the highest possible performance levels for IP applications, your choice for a hosting service provider is clearly Verio. Verio's robust portfolio of Linux-based services delivers state-of-the-art performance, reliability, and security. Verio Linux VPS, Linux MPS, and dedicated servers are based on the...

Tags: Verio Inc., IP, Linux Journal, Linux, Business Services, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Network Technology, Networking, Software

White papers 2008-06-16

Linux Journal features Skype Server build tutorial

Linux Journal features Skype Server build tutorialSince I don't pay for a subscriptionIt is impossible to read that article. In any event, its a hack. When will Skype come out with a NATIVE Linux port?

Tags: Skype Server, Skype Technologies S.A., Linux Journal, server

Discussion threads 2005-12-07

Linux Journal features Skype Server build tutorial

In the January, 2006 issue of Linux Journal, there's an article entitled "Build A Skype Server for Your Home Phone System."Written by experienced Skype developer Andrew Sheppard, the piece (currently available online only to Linux Journal subscribers - is a step-by-step guide to:Setting Up Linux to work with Skype...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Server

Blog posts 2005-12-06

Additional Resources

The original open source niche remains just that

the niche is expandingWhile M$ if on the ropes firing its employees, FOSS companies are hiring and getting infusions of capital from forward looking investors.Nopethe money is not there, and never will be.Yeah, and they are hiring and expandingJust look at the stewards of some of the most "successful" open...

Tags: open source, F/OSS, Sun Microsystems Inc., OH WAIT

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Can a Windows geek learn to love Snow Leopard?

David Alison's BlogEd, have you seen David Alison's blog? He was a long time Windows developer that switched to Mac. His blog has a wealth of information about the trials and tribulations of switching. If you've not already, I suggest you have a look.http://www.davidalison.com/NoWhile I can't comment on Snow...

Tags: Operating systems, Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., WMA, Apple Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Linux group buys up 22 patents

The Open Invention Network - an IP company created to protect Linux from patent lawsuits - has purchased 22 patents formerly owned by Microsoft and which appear to impact Linux, The Wall Street Journal reports. The group purchased the patents from Allied Security Trust - a consortium...

Tags: Patent, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-08

What do Linux vendors want with those former Microsoft graphics patents?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a group of open-source backers is poised to purchase 22 graphics patents formerly the property of Microsoft. The patents in question seem to include some or all of the 3D-graphics-related ones that Microsoft purchased from SGI in 2002. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Linux, Patent, Microsoft Corp., Graphics, Open Source, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-09-08

News to know: FCC and Apple, AT&T; Windows 7; SAP; iPhoto vs. Picasa

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: FCC eyes AT&T, Apple rejection of Google Voice apps full text of letters Garett Rogers: Apple and...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Google Picasa, Apple iPhoto, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Government

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Two questions about Microsoft's future ...

Two questions about Microsoft's future ...The evil of subscriptionHow would an OS subscription be anything other than a complete rip-off to the end user? There are so many reasons why a subscription system would fail and fail badly. The cost of implementation, activation issues, anti-piracy concerns. All of this and...

Tags: Piracy, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., antipiracy, operating system, software

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Is Microsoft getting serious about education?

Microsoft has been the de facto choice for schools and businesses alike for some time in terms of both operating systems and productivity software. OpenOffice, Linux, a Mac resurgence, and cloud-based applications, however, have certainly put pressure on the company, especially in the educational sector where tight budgets and...

Tags: Education, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, OpenOffice, Operating Systems, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Windows 7: Good enough to pay for?

I finally installed the Windows 7 release candidate that the folks from Microsoft were kind enough to pass on a couple weeks ago at the Intel Classmate Ecosystem Summit. I could have installed it on my Mac, but I already have Vista running with Boot Camp with a fair...

Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-27

Stratus Avance 1.5 - A Simple, but Powerful, Way to HA/DR for SMB

There, I got three acronyms into the title of a post!  That was just about as much fun as getting the Wall Street Journal to unknowingly publish a pun as part of a quote! Now that I've said that, let's get down to business. Lee Kaminski, a...

Tags: Stratus Technologies, Small And Medium Business, Avance, Avance Software, Virtualization, Storage Management, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Microsoft's Pink: Let's leave the 'iPhone rival' label off

Microsoft's Pink: Let's leave the 'iPhone rival' label offWinMo 7 is vaporware! ...2010.. c'mon.. vaporware!apple is likely to have an OS update with basically everything people have complained about it lacking and more and WinMo 7 aka the ghost is a year away... you've got to be kidding me.. MS.....

Tags: Linux, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Cellular phones, WinMo 7, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, iPhone rival, phone, Pink, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Is MySQL done under Oracle or is there a fork in its future?

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software, says the term "Oracle and open source has always been an...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-04-23

WSJ: Microsoft makes less than $15 per XP netbook

In a piece about Windows 7 in today's Wall Street Journal is a starting bit of information: that Microsoft "takes in less than $15 per netbook for Windows XP once marketing rebates are taken into account -- far less than the estimated $50 to $60 it receives for PCs running...

Tags: Wall Street Journal, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Christopher Dawson, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Windows 7 Starter Edition: opportunity for Linux on netbooks

People are excited about Windows 7. Overall, reviews of the betas are overwhelmingly positive and it looks as though not surprisingly Microsoft has learned from the giant mistake that was Vista. There's just one potentially sticky wicket for Redmond: Windows 7 Starter Edition. I bring...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-19

HP studying Android for netbooks

There was a scene in Microsoft's "Lauren" commercial where she holds up a netbook computer and says "This is like a phone." She's not the only one thinking that way. The latest buzz is that Hewlett-Packard is testing Google's Android, an operating system designed for mobile phones,...

Tags: Google Android, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operating System, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Microsoft adds 'Skywing' to Windows defense team

Ken 'Skywing' Johnson, a well-known hacker famous for his work on bypassing several Windows anti-exploitation mechanisms, has joined the software maker to help make it harder to compromise the operating system. Johnson, who teamed up with another recent Microsoft hire -- Matt 'Skape' Miller -- on several...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Defense, Shostack, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-25

IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herring

IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herringDatabases galoreIBM has a pile of databases besides DB2, like IMS, the Informix products, Universe/Unidata, Cloudscape also called Derby and JavaDB, etc. MySQL is accretive to share, at least, and IBM is well-versed in maintaining multiple database product lines.only IBM...

Tags: Servers, Databases, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herring

Someone has floated a trial balloon, through a leak to the Wall Street Journal, that IBM is in "talks" to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion. The only party that would leak this information is Sun itself, and it smacks of desperation in trying to thwart an unwanted acquisition, or...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nope, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18