Red Hat's Good Quarter: What's the Problem? [06/30/2009]OS Roundup: The enterprise Linux heavyweight posted some great numbers this quarter, but is good news from Red Hat good news for Red Hat?
Redmond's Latest Woe: OS Irrelevance [06/23/2009]OS Roundup: Is Microsoft losing the war on two fronts? Enterprises continue to opt for XP over Vista and Windows 7, and Internet Explorer is now lame and leaking share.
Unix Hits the Big Four-Oh [06/16/2009]OS Roundup: Happy birthday, Unix. There's much more to be said than 40 years old and not yet dead.
What's the Future for OpenSolaris? [06/09/2009]OS Roundup: From Java to Solaris, Sun brings myriad good technology to the table, technology that Oracle will likely exploit and monetize.
Vista -- The Most Secure Enterprise OS? [06/02/2009]OS Roundup: No, not really, though Microsoft argues otherwise. But Linux, OS X and UNIX aren't all that secure either. Here's why.
The Pursuit of the Flawless OS [05/26/2009]OS Roundup: Eurocrats and the normally sober American Law Institute have some ideas about how operating system makers and other software developers should write their code. Will anyone listen?
Marketing the Desktop OS [05/19/2009]OS Roundup: Is the key to desktop OS success tied to its server connection? That would explain Apple's and Window's success -- and Linux's many false starts.
What Oracle Wants [05/12/2009]OS Roundup: It's official: Oracle has Apple envy. And Cisco envy. And when it grows up, it wants to be just like IBM.
Windows 7 Prepares to Face Off With Newly Popular Desktop Linux [05/05/2009]OS Roundup: Desktop Linux deployments now exceed 1 percent. With Windows 7 on the horizon, will it continue to expand, or will the OS hit the wall because it just isn't Windows?
Windows 7, Microsoft's Midlife Crisis? [04/28/2009]OS Roundup: Moving on can be hard, whether in life or in the data center. To alleviate the latter, Microsoft typically offers backward compatibility. With Windows 7, it goes one further with XP mode.
Apple Fan or Fanboy? [04/27/2009]Are you merely a fan, or have you moved into a whole other realm?
So, Oracle and Sun, eh? [04/21/2009]OS Roundup: What's in it for Oracle that wasn't there for IBM? Lots -- if you look closely.
HP-UX to Cure All Corporate IT Ills [04/16/2009]OS Roundup: HP is selling the new version of HP-UX as the antidote to your IT headaches. But looking at the bigger picture, is Unix really a vaccine in the face of Linux?
Apple's Latest Muddle [03/31/2009]OS Roundup: The wheels may be coming loose on the OS X Apple cart, as the gadget-maker struggles for a niche in the computer and operating systems market.
IBM and Sun -- Why? [03/24/2009]OS Roundup: Because all roads lead to the cloud, and the cloud leads to services.
Linux at the Tipping Point [03/17/2009]OS Roundup: Lean times for Unix likely mean good things for Linux.
What's the point of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server? [03/10/2009]OS Roundup: Would the world be a better place without it? That may sound a touch brutal, but it's a question that must be asked. Here's why.
Microsoft and Its Three Biggest Threats [03/03/2009]OS Roundup: Pirates, Linux and Apple are Microsoft's biggest three competitors in the client OS market place. The different ways it treats them reveals which one it really fears. Hint: It's not the one that makes you walk the plank.
Ubuntu Makes Cloud Strategy a Big Joke [02/24/2009]OS Roundup: There was no shortage of puns last week when Mark Shuttleworth unveiled Karmic Koala, the next version of Ubuntu, slated for release in late 2009, as well as Canonical's cloud computing strategy.
Is Your OS More Secure Than Mac OS X? [02/17/2009]OS Roundup: All operating systems are insecure, but some are more insecure than others. The key is knowing which these are.
Linux, Windows Seek Strength in Competition [02/10/2009]OS Roundup: Much can be said about improvement through competition. Take OSes: The variety of Linux distros may be ensuring Linux grabs an ever-increasing share of the enterprise server OS market, Windows pretends to compete against itself, and Apple, well, Apple just doesn't bother.
Windows Market Share Persists, Despite Apple's Marketing Glitz [02/03/2009]OS Roundup: Think Apple's such a master at marketing? Then how do you account for Microsoft's long-standing hold on the desktop? A hold that Windows 7 aims to make even tighter.
Linux vs. Unix Values Evident in Red Hat, Sun Market Valuations [01/27/2009]OS Roundup: With Sun's market valuation being roughly equal to its cash reserves and Red Hat's far exceeding its earnings, is the all-knowing market making a statement about which has the better technology, or is one of them being fattened up for sale?
Apple, Linux Miss Golden Opportunity to Snag Desktop Market Share [01/20/2009]OS Roundup: Neither Apple nor the Linux distros reaped much benefit from the Microsoft product breach known as a Vista. With Windows 7 now on the horizon, is a mainstream, non-Windows desktop a lost cause?
Salesforce.com Goes Down. Big Deal? [01/13/2009]OS Roundup: Last week's outage stoked alarmists' fears about cloud computing. Meanwhile, FreeBSD 7.1 hit the street with ease, while Windows 7 got caught in a traffic jam and Mac OS X 10 remained in the parking lot.
Amid Doom and Gloom, Opportunities for Microsoft, Apple [01/06/2009]OS Roundup: It's only the first week of January, and already 'recession,' 'credit crunch' and 'challenging economic environment' are being used to describe the new year. Sure, 2009 will see some big losers, but innovation tends to thrive in economic downturns, and winners will emerge.
News Next-Generation Web Experience on Its Way [June 26, 2009]
It may be impossible to predict what innovation will bring, but it is possible to predict some of the attributes of the future.
Tutorials Make It Snappy With Vim [June 22, 2009]
Tip of the Trade: Learn how to set your own abbreviations and mappings in the ever-useful Vim.
Reviews XPerience ClearBox Enterprise RADIUS Server [January 27, 2009]
No matter how much experience you have with RADIUS servers, XPerience Technologies' ClearBox's low price point and seemingly high feature set aims to have something for you.
