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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Archive for July, 2009
Ballmer: larger threat from Apple, Linux (MacNN)
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Red Hat Enterprise clone poised to ‘die’ (The Register)
Author: adminJul 30
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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Open-source Project Aims to Makes Secure DNS Easier (PC World)
Author: adminJul 30
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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Hands-on: Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio (Ars Technica)
Author: adminJul 30
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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IBM, Virtual Bridges and Canonical Introduce latest version of its Linux-server based Virtual Desktop (dBusinessNews.com)
Author: adminJul 30
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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