Practical Technology

Portland, OR- Canonical., the company behind Ubuntu, has always had many user and developer fans. Enterprise business fans though? Not so much. Canonical hopes to change that with today’s, July 21st, launch of a virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C software running on the Ubuntu cloud computing platform in private and public cloud configurations. The [...]

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This would be funny if only there weren’t people out there who are fool enough to believe in any anti-Linus lie. I mean, how dead does SCO have to be before its anti-Linux FUD finally disappears into the history books? It’s not dead enough yet it seems. In the latest revival of SCO’s long disproved [...]

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Oh how things have changed. Back in March 1991, Stewart Alsop (PDF Link), venture capitalist and one time editor-in-chief of InfoWorld said, “I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996.” In 2010, while IBM doesn’t break out its profits by individual server line, IBM’s systems and technology group, reported 1st [...]

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OK, hands up, who, like me, was a one time IBM OS/2 user? What? You don’t know OS/2? It was IBM, and briefly, Microsoft’s 32-bit server and desktop operating system that was going to change the world. Then, Bill Gates decided that he’d do better by going it on his own with some operating system [...]

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After covering the war of words over IBM’s use of patents in a business dispute with French start-up TurboHercules and giving my two cents on this open-source family fight, I’d hope the matter would die down. I was wrong. Florien Mueller, the founder of the European NoSoftwarePatents campaign, who started this most recent open-source internal [...]

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