KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced that their recent survey of IT administrators showed that 60 percent of them have no plans to deploy Vista. That’s almost 10% more turning their backs on Vista then in KACE’s last survey in November 2007 . According to the company press release, “42 percent of them said [...]
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Vista Adoption going no-where, IT considering Linux and Mac instead
July 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Apple · Applications · Business · Canonical · Desktop · Infrastructure · Linux · Mac OS X · Microsoft · Novell · Office Software · Operating System · Red Hat · Uncategorized · Windows
Linspire executives exodus?
August 10th, 2007 · Comments Off
According to multiple sources close to Linux distributor Linspire, former CEO Kevin Carmony was not the only executive to leave Linspire at the end of July. Sources say that Chad Olson, the company’s CFO, and other high-ranking officials including the comptroller and the head of the Linux engineering team had also left by July 31. [...]
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What the Microsoft/Xandros deal means for Linux
June 11th, 2007 · Comments Off
Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros on June 4 signed a broad set of collaboration and patent agreements that reminded many of the November 2006 Microsoft/Novell partnership. What do analysts and other Linux vendors think this new deal means for Linux? While the FSF (Free Software Foundation) has tried to block such patent deals with the [...]
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Oracle’s Red Hat rip-off
October 25th, 2006 · Comments Off
No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is erasing Red Hat’s trademarks from Unbreakable Linux and supporting it for less than Red Hat is a bolt from the blue. Or, perhaps, I should say that Oracle is firing [...]
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