Archive for July, 2009

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer today told those gathered at his company’s financial analyst meeting that he fully anticipates stiffer competition, particularly from incumbent rivals like Apple, Linux and evetually Chrome OS. He contended that it was only natural for an OS as dominant as Windows to face a threat and maintained that Microsoft “deserves competition” to remain healthy. In spite of …
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CentOS airs dirty laundry as admin ‘vanishes’ Updated According to six concerned CentOS developers, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone is poised on the edge of the abyss.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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PC World – A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet’s addressing system less vulnerable to hackers.
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Novell has launched a new Web service called SUSE Studio that simplifies the process of building Linux-based software appliances. It provides a convenient interface for creating custom versions of Novell’s SUSE Linux distribution with specialized configurations. The service is part of Novell’s broader SUSE Appliance Program initiative. Enterprise software deployment comes with a lot of serious …
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Austin , TX – July 29, 2009 — Virtual Bridges, IBM and Canonical announced today the immediate availability of the newest version of a Linux-server based virtual desktop with the release of Virtual Bridges’ VERDE 2.0 software.
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