Practical Technology

Sun has released the first update to its recently purchased desktop virtualization program, now called Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0. While not a major update, it does bring improved performance and 64-bit operating system support to the popular open source virtualization program.
VirtualBox, now part of Sun’s xVM series, runs on a wide variety of host operating [...]

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While the worldwide server market’s factory revenue grew 6.4% over the last year, according to the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Track, Linux server revenue was running ahead of the curve at a growth rate of 10%.
The economy may be tanking, but the worldwide server market still did $13.9-billion worth of business in 2008’s second quarter, [...]

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You know zombie movies. You chop ‘em. You set ‘em on fire. You machine-gun ‘em and they just keep coming.
They’re scary at first, but then, except for the very best zombie movies - Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later - the zombies get to be pretty darn boring. SCO, the zombie that wanted [...]

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Love him or hate him, if you were in the Linux business, Ransom Love, former CEO of Caldera, now SCO, and mid-wife to UnitedLinux, was impossible to ignore.
One of the very first to champion Linux in business, had he had his way, Novell, not Red Hat, would now be the major business Linux vendor.With [...]

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BIG BLUE IS TRYING TO PUT a happy face on its 64-bit Unix strategy. But many people still are hopping mad over how IBM is handling the morphing of Project Monterey into AIX 5L, an upcoming operating system that’s supposed to run Linux, SCO UnixWare and IBM AIX apps.
Specificbones of contention include the name of [...]

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