A friend recently asked me if I really wanted VMware, a company with a former Microsoft guy in charge, VMware, to buy Novell? His unspoken message was “Wouldn’t that be horrible for Novell’s Linux?” Bless his heart, clearly he hasn’t been paying attention to the relationship between VMware and Microsoft. VMware, a semi-independent fiefdom of [...]
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VMware doesn’t like Windows
September 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Microsoft · Novell · Operating System · VMware · Virtualization · Windows
Windows and Linux: Peaceful Co-Existence With Microsoft and Novell
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Novell and Microsoft are more than happy to help you bridge the gap between Linux and Windows. Once upon a time, bridging the gap between Windows and Linux in the server room or the office was… difficult. Today, while no one’s going to call it easy, Novell and Microsoft have worked hard on ensuring interoperability [...]
Tags: Business · Linux · Microsoft · Novell · Operating System · Windows
Upgrading to Windows 7 isn’t Cheap
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments
I’ve upgraded old XP PCs to Windows 7 and I’ve bought new PCs equipped with Windows 7. Either way I’ve found that it’s not cheap. Now, Gartner, the research company, has worked out just how expensive upgrading to Windows 7 can be for enterprises. In one word, moving to Windows 7 can be described in [...]
Tags: Business · Desktop · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Windows
How to get Windows and Linux to cooperate on the network
August 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re doing, getting the two to meet on the network can seem like it’s almost impossible. Fortunately, [...]
Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Intranet · Linux · Network · Network Services · Operating System · Samba · Server · Windows
Can Windows kill the Internet?
July 19th, 2010 · Comments Off
I’ve long thought that someday Windows security problems could end up fouling up the Internet for everyone. That day may be arriving. That’s not just me being paranoid about Windows. That’s the ISC (Internet Storm Center), the group that tracks the overall health of the Internet, wondering whether the newly discovered ‘LNK” exploit might be [...]
Tags: Operating System · Security · Windows