As enterprises gain comfort with the principles of service orientation and begin adopting SOA for large-scale, business-critical applications, they must invariably grapple with the traditional 'ilities,' e.g., reliability, scalability, and agility that challenge the architects of deman...

The astonishingly rapid rise of virtualization technology has made it a vital component of any Enterprise IT strategy today. And the technology is triggering dramatic changes in product offerings and business practices to support virtualized operational models. These breakneck speed de...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with integrated virtualization, provides a seamless deployment solution bridging both on-premise and cloud computing. As part of this solution, Red Hat Network offers a common set of management and automation tools across on-premises deployments and the Amazon...

When it comes to cutting I/O cost, power, management and real estate requirements in blade servers, the ideal I/O solution is a single, unified I/O adapter that can provide required services for all data center traffic types - LAN, SAN and IPC. This is because blade server form factors...

My own personal install of Leopard seems to be having periodic trouble completing a shutdown on the 17' MBP. Annoying? Yes. Worthy of posting something inflammatory such as 'wrong with Leopard's spots'? Doubtful. So, in looking at eWeek's Microsoft Watch's latest article, I leave you w...

My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000 experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-t...

Now that Leopard is out and everyone is, I suspect, feverishly reformatting their laptops and desktops to install the retail copy of Leopard, developers can finally start sharing their Leopard code samples. Rather than me sitting around making up stupid reasons why such-and-such code s...

Let's consider the pages of a traditional corporate Website. They include an 'about me' page, a contact page, a careers section, and probably a page with news and press releases. The words look good on paper, and, more than likely, a committee gave the final sign-off on the site's cont...

The Nigerian government recently chose the Intel Classmate PC and Mandriva for an educational project, selecting it in spite of a competitive offer by Microsoft. But now it seems the Nigerian government is replacing Linux by Windows on the Classmate PC, although they paid for the Mandr...

What I am going to do in this regular column is feed my habit by highlighting some of the books I am reading, and (mostly) enjoying. (I will only rarely write negative reviews; it's a rare book that I 'do not put down gently but throw across the room with great force' after all.) Geeks...

In the run-up to its numbers Thursday there was chatter on Wall Street about Rackable maybe being an acquisition target. CNBC linked it to IBM. Such rumors have been in the air on and off since Rackable caved under competitive pressure.

There's an earlier agreement between the two companies involving Turbo with the Open XML format and the use of the Windows Media Format. Under the new deal, Turbolinux desktops will include Live Search. According to Turbolinux CEO Yano Koichi, 'When strong Microsoft customers are evalu...

SCO Group asked for approval from Judge Gross of the bankruptcy court last week to sell off Unix to the highest bidder, which means York Capital Management, a financial firm. If SCO does receive $36 million, Novell and IBM (and perhaps others) will certainly be hoping that the money wi...

SCO has gotten a $16 million bid from York Capital for its Unix business. Coupled with the $10M line of credit York is ready to provide, it's money enough to keep SCO's litigation against Novell and IBM going and to underwrite its budding mobile interests, the company says. SCO's la...

Ballmer then went on to say: 'There are plenty of other people who may also have intellectual property. And every time an Eolas comes to Microsoft and says 'Pay us,' I suspect they also would like to eventually go to the open source world. So getting what I'll call an intellectual prop...

Red Hat is looking for middleware partners but says that JBoss requires an 'integrated' consultative pitch - rather than a product approach - to higher-ups in the enterprise, which translates into a longer selling cycle that Red Hat claims will mean bigger deals. It is unclear whether ...

'We have put everything into this latest commercial release to make it our most complete offering to date,' said Larry Kettler, President and CEO of Linspire, Inc., as Linspire yesterday announced the immediate availability of Linspire 6.0 - the latest commercial release of the desktop...

A developer of advanced label and packaging materials for consumer products has eliminated 'server sprawl' in its corporate data center with SWsoft Virtuozzo operating system virtualization software. On typical a day, AET Films runs approximately 45 Virtuozzo virtual environments on th...

Novell's free community source code, openSUSE, moved to rev 10.3 Thursday. The widgetry includes a Linux-Windows dual-boot configuration, an improved user interface, enhanced multimedia support and Microsoft Office file compatibility with the latest OpenOffice 2.3 software. Novell says...

HP says it's going to stop hiding its light under a bushel and advertise the fact that it upgrades its 20-year-old Unix operating system roughly every six months - and has done so for the last three years. It's so taken with the idea that it's even going to start giving the things huma...

SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry's vendors, customers, and users, as well as by t...

Scalix, a Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging company, has released Scalix 11.2, with new features to support hosted multi-tenant environments, the latest Linux servers, and enhanced Microsoft Outlook facilities for mobile devices. Scalix 11.2 allows application service providers (...

Concurrent's NightStar LX debugging and analysis toolkit is now available for two additional Linux distributions - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and openSUSE 10.2 from Novell. NightStar is an integrated Qt-based GUI tool set for developing and tuning time-critical 32-bit and 64-bit applic...

MySQL AB has announced that the Swedish National Police are implementing an enterprise-wide project for building all future IT systems on an open source software (OSS) infrastructure based upon Linux, MySQL, and JBoss. Several existing systems are currently being migrated and all futur...

An international development team has announced the first official release of ProjectPier. Based on widely accepted technologies like PHP and MySQL, ProjectPier offers an open source collaboration solution that can be installed on any shared hosting server within minutes.

Those swinging doors that grace the office of the head of marketing at Red Hat have slapped another exiting executive in the fanny. Old-time Unix veteran Tim Yeaton, senior VP of marketing, has been replaced by Michael Chen, seconded over from Red Hat China, where he was general manage...

I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let...

'Chapter 11 reorganization provides the company with an opportunity to protect its assets during this time while focusing on building our future plans,' said Darl McBride, president and CEO of Lindon, Utah-based SCO Group in a statement accompanying the company's voluntary petition for...

AMD has announced that they will be working on a strategy to open source drivers for their ATI hardware including their X1000 series and HD2000 series. It's been a long time coming as any Linux desktop guy knew to go for the nVidia graphics card because they support open source. I am s...

SourceLabs announced the availability of SASH 2 complete with a major new milestone - integrated support for Apache Tomcat. Comprised of the most widely deployed open source Java technologies used by the Global 2000, new SASH 2 is a robust platform that simplifies the development of en...

SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new spons...

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, which will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative ed...

iPhone, whatever its sales, was disruptive from the moment Steve Jobs first showed it off in January. It immediately started redefining the smartphone business and focused the attention of smartphone makers on the importance of software, according to serial entrepreneur Pauline Alker, ...

Dell reported its fiscal Q2 results Thursday, a week after it confessed that its books were manipulated to meet projections, but Wall Street had to settle for a dry press release. There was no conference call to tease out color and won't be until Dell files its missing financial statem...

Novell has now invoiced a total of $105 million since it cut its controversial deal with Microsoft in November, roughly 44% of the $240 million called for in the five-year pact. They are still 'ramping their relationship in Asia-Pacific,' CEO Ron Hovsepian said. He claimed that there w...

Dell, the world's second-largest PC maker, said late Thursday that its books were cooked by unidentified 'senior executives' to hit financial targets and that its financial reports for fiscal 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and the first quarter of fiscal 2007 can't be trusted. It's going to ...

Novell Inc. added 36 cents to $6.78. The software developer owns the copyrights covering the Unix computer operating system and not SCO Group Inc., a judge ruled in a lawsuit over royalties from users of the Linux computer operating system. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dale Kimbal...

Dell has Ubuntu and now Lenovo has gone with Novell. The world's third-largest PC maker, at least this week it's number three, IBM's hand-me-down to the Chinese, is going to factory-install SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on some of its ThinkPad notebooks and support the operating sys...

In a statement, IBM and Novell said, 'By entering into the agreement IBM gains access to Novell's SMB market leadership, providing new sales opportunities from Novell's existing customer base. In return, Novell gains a strong global partner, allowing it to tap into IBM's worldwide sale...