November 8, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Last of original SCO v IBM Linux lawsuit settled
Well, that took long enough! But, what’s this? The lawsuit still lingers on in one last case from the company that bought SCO’s Unix operating systems. While at the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Napa, California, I was bemused to find that … Continue reading
April 6, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Why not the best? Red Hat vet Paul Cormier takes over as CEO
In 2001, it was anyone’s guess who would be the dominant business Linux company. Yes, Red Hat was in the running, but so was Caldera, SUSE, and TurboLinux. And, there was still a reasonable chance that Sun with Solaris could … Continue reading
March 18, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe
I cut my teeth on mainframe computers. My first system administration language wasn’t — as you might guess from my Unix/Linux background — Borrne or C shell, but rather, IBM 360 mainframe Job Control Language (JCL). So, the notion that … Continue reading
October 2, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on IBM and Canonical work together in financial services
Yes, IBM bought Red Hat, but as Chris Wright, Red Hat‘s CTO, recently told me, “We’re fundamentally a separate entity from IBM.” Want proof of that? In NYC, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, Ubuntu Linux‘s parent company, and Ross Mauri, general manager … Continue reading
January 3, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on The top 5 Linux and open-source stories of 2018
Last year was among the best of times for Linux and open-source. It was also the worst of years. The top five Linux and open-source stories tell it all. The top 5 Linux and open-source stories of 2018 More>
December 19, 2018
by sjvn01
Comments Off on IRS Linux move delayed by lingering Oracle Solaris systems
The enterprise server market belongs to Linux now. Clouds, web-servers, you name it, Linux runs it. One of the biggest reasons for this remains that Linux is cheaper than the alternatives. But that doesn’t mean Linux has all its way … Continue reading