August 11, 2014
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In my recent debate with Ed Bott over Microsoft’s future, the public bought Ed’s arguments that Microsoft will have a bright, shining future with Satya Nadella as CEO. The judge though gave me the win because he agreed that “Nadella’s challenges outweigh his support and time window won out. After all, there are a lot of fix-it jobs to do after Steve Ballmer.”
August 11, 2014
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Chromebooks have proven to be wildly popular in schools. More than a million Chromebooks were sold to schools this spring alone.
For schools, Chromebook math is easy. In Google’s Chromebooks for Education program, each device can cost as little as $279 and they’re easy to manage from a centralized console. For school districts the real killer feature is this: If they buy through the Google program and a Chromebook stops working, Google just replaces it for no additional cost.
Chromebooks also come with their built-in advantages: They require no anti-virus programs, they boot up in fewer than 10 seconds, they automatically update to the newest patches without any fuss or muss, and with them you can use a wide variety of educational and productivity programs.
August 6, 2014
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For years, Rackspace was known as one of the foremost Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud companies. Now, they’re out of the pure-play IaaS business. What happened?
It is more than a little surprising. I mean, not only was Rackspace one of the first IaaS cloud companies, but it, along with NASA, also helped create OpenStack, the hottest open-source cloud project around. Indeed, if you do a Google search on Rackspace, you’ll find it’s still listed as the “Dedicated IaaS Leader.”
In a Network World interview, Rackspace CTO John Engates said Rackspace didn’t want to keep chasing Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Drive down the rabbit hole of more and cheaper storage. “We realized in some regards that we needed to play our own game instead of chasing a competitor. We want to make it clear that we’re a managed cloud company and not a copy-cat of Amazon.
August 6, 2014
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At this point, it’s hard to say exactly what’s going on in Microsoft’s patent contract dispute with Samsung. The two companies may just be fighting out their contract terms or it could be the first shot at Microsoft’s Android patent portfolio.
Microsoft’s heavily redacted lawsuit was filed on August 1st in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York. In a blog posting by David Howard, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, claimed that the two companies have “a fundamental disagreement as to the meaning of our contract.”
Specifically, Microsoft claims that since Samsung’s Android business has exploded from 82 million Android smartphones in 2011 to 314 million Android smartphones, “Samsung decided late last year to stop complying with its agreement with Microsoft.”
This agreement had been the biggest of Microsoft’s Android patent wins. These deals may make Microsoft as much as two billion dollars a year, more than five times what Windows Phone brings in.
Bad Microsoft Android patents may lie behind Samsung lawsuit. More>
August 6, 2014
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Docker is more popular in enterprise data centers and clouds now than ice-cream on a hot summer day in a day-care center. So, it comes as no surprise that openSUSE, SUSE‘s community Linux distribution, has adopted Docker as well.
August 5, 2014
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Apple and Samsung agreed on Tuesday to drop their patent lawsuits outside the US. But their patent wars aren’t over yet. The two technology giants will continue to battle on within the U.S. courts system.
Apple and Samsung drop all patent lawsuits outside the US. More>