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IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork

January 30th, 2012 · No Comments

In a brief note, Ed Brill, an IBM product line manager, announced that IBM has likely seen its last release of Symphony, its OpenOffice fork. Later, in the blog’s discussion thread, Eric Otchet, Symphony’s product manager, seemingly confirmed that this was the end of the road for Symphony when he wrote about Apache OpenOffice the [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Development · IBM · Office Software · Open Source

Where Linux crushes Windows like a bug: Supercomputers

November 14th, 2011 · Comments Off

The faster a computer goes, the more likely is to have Linux at its heart. The most recent Top500 list of supercomputers shows that, if anything, Linux is becoming even more popular at computing’s high end. In the latest Top500 Supercomputer list, you’ll find when you dig into the supercomputer statistics that Linux runs 457 [...]

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Tags: AIX · Business · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Microsoft · Novell · Operating System · Red Hat · Supercomputer · Unix · Windows

Mainframe Ubuntu Linux?

September 7th, 2011 · Comments Off

When you think of “Ubuntu Linux,” you probably think of the community Linux distribution and the Linux desktop. That’s great, but Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, also wants you to think of Ubuntu as a server and cloud operating system platform. To that end, Canonical has been working with IBM to get Ubuntu certified on IBM’s [...]

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Tags: Business · Canonical · Cloud Computing · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Mainframe · Operating System · Server

Red Hat’s biggest enemy? VMware

August 29th, 2011 · Comments Off

Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux distributor, make a try for the top? Might Ubuntu’s Canonical make its big break into corporate Linux? All good guesses, but Red Hat [...]

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Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Development · IBM · Infrastructure · Java · LAMP · Linux · Microsoft · Open Source · Operating System · Red Hat · Virtualization · VMware

Leo Apotheker’s HP never wanted webOS to succeed

August 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment

liked webOS, HP’s Linux-based take on a tablet operating system. I thought it had a shot to be a tablet player. But, then, Leo Apotheker, HP’s new CEO, along with spinning off HP’s PC business, killed webOS. Was it because, as Apotheker said, the tablet effect is real and sales of the TouchPad are not [...]

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Tags: Business · Desktop · HP · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Management · Mergers · Operating System · Oracle · Tablet