There was a time when you
couldn't shut me up about
the Linux desktop. I was
a fanatic. In 2000, I
made the switch to a
full-time virus-free
Linux desktop and weeks
of crash-free computing.
I was a zealot. However,
I did suffer from...
Back in July 2006, one of
the most contentious
issues at the Linux
Kernel Summit was what to
do about virtualization.
At that time, there were
three contenders: Xen,
VMware, and OpenVZ (the
latter being a
lighter-weight
container-...
Recently, I had the
pleasure of speaking with
Anton Chuvakin, Director
of Product Management at
LogLogic. We had an
interesting discussion
about log management and
the open source project
he's involved in that
collects Windows event...
Mike Milinkovich,
executive director of the
Eclipse Foundation, has
been kind enough to
answer some questions for
Enterprise Open Source
Magazine. Rather than
rattle off the usual ones
about the name, about why
Swing wasn't used, or...
When the Open Solutions
Alliance (OSA) launched
in February, there was a
lot of interest. But some
of that interest has been
industry head-scratching,
wondering about the
results and the
intentions of the OSA (ww
w.opensolutionsallia...
Within Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP)
and Customer Relationship
Management (CRM), many
companies have enjoyed a
blossoming of open source
software. By harnessing
the collective wisdom,
experiences, expertise,
and requirements, t...
For those who aren't
familiar with Ingres, let
me outline where Ingres
came from and what the
technology is all about.
The Ingres technology has
been around for quite
some time. It dates back
to the early '70s at UC
Berkeley, and wa...
These days, executives
realize that there are
'new school' ways of
acquiring a company with
a software asset. For all
of the immeasurable
benefits it has brought
to the development
community, open source
technology has added a
com...
The Jedi mind trick is a
Force power that can
influence the actions of
weak-minded sentient
beings. Vendors will
often try to apply the
Jedi mind trick in
selling silver-bullet
software solutions that
solve global warming and
stop...
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. T
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha