My good buddy Preston Gralla would have it that “Windows doesn’t just dominate the desktop, but the server market as well.” Eh… I don’t think so.
For proof, Gralla points to the latest IDC (International Data Corporation’) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. This report covers the worldwide server market’s factory revenue.
What Gralla and other people miss is [...]
It’s Monday morning, everyone’s hammering the servers, and your customers want the information yesterday. Part of the remote branch IT blues is that it can be darn hard to get quick access to the data stored at the company’s central office when you need it Right Now.
With Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has [...]
I’m on a social network; you’re on a social network, these days it seems we’re all on at least one social network–like Facebook, Twitter, etc. etc–if not two, three, or even more.
To be exact, the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s December 2008 tracking survey found that 35% of adult internet users now have a [...]
More than ten-years ago, I helped Linux’s adoption a little bit along by proving out that Linux and Samba actually worked faster than the then dominant Windows NT operating system. Today, as we bid the ‘noughts’ adieu, everyone uses Linux from devices, such as DVR (digital video recorders) and smartphones; to the Internet where everything [...]
Red Hat is the number one Linux company, but they haven’t been interested in the Linux desktop for years. With the open-sourcing of SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment), that’s changing.
SPICE, like Microsoft’s RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and Citrix’s ICA (Independent Computing Architecture), is a desktop presentation services protocol. They’re used for thin-client desktops, [...]
