Here's a scenario. Among the systems administrators (SAs) in your company,
you're the exception, not the rule. You cut your teeth on Unix, you keep up
your Unix skills, and you still favor Unix in many respects.
But you're also a pragmatist, and probably a parent with mouths to feed, so
as Microsoft has become more and more prevalent on the server side of the
network, you have added to your skill set by joining the hundreds of
thousands of other Microsoft-Certified Professionals worldwide. The reason
why you're an exception at your company is because most of your SA peers have
limited, if any, Unix experience - most are strictly Microsoft Certified.
One day your boss comes to you with a "special project." He's aware of your
Unix background and of the similarity between Linux and Unix, and he noticed
that you left the office before midnight two days in a row. Concludin... (more)
Last month, BitDefender (www.BitDefender.com) made a couple substantial Linux
product announcements. First, it released version 1.6.2 of its BitDefender
for Samba Linux File Servers product. As part of the new release, the company
released parts of the updated product under an Open Source license. The
specific code now covered under GPL is their antivirus (VFS) engine for
Samba.
Asked what motivated the decision, BitDefender product marketing manager
Alexandru Balan said, "Customer and community requests. At LinuxWorld Expo in
Boston we received several requests from members of ... (more)
What if your desktop applications didn't care what operating system was
running on your computer? If IBM's Workplace group delivers on the vision
they laid out for me in a recent demo of their Workplace Managed Client
(WMC), IT departments will have exactly this degree of freedom in their
desktop OS selection.
Built on the Eclipse project standard, IBM's WMC essentially provides a
desktop middleware layer, if you will, acting as a buffer between the
underlying system OS and the application layer. Yet, because of the
characteristics of Eclipse, applications running on top of it p... (more)
Some exciting things are happening in Barcelona, Spain. In order of presumed
interest to LinuxWorld readers, these are:
MareNostrum, the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world, which runs SuSE
Linux on over 2,000 IBM blades, was recently christened in Barcelona.
Barcelona is undertaking a massive (approximately 1 square mile) urban
revitalization program of an all-but-abandoned textile manufacturing district
right in the center of the city, transforming it into a world-class
Technology Park (www.bcn.es/22@bcn).
The Spanish government is moving their equivalent of the Federal
C... (more)
Let's play word association. I say "Web Hosting." I bet "fat margins" didn't
jump into your head. More likely, you thought of some of the "where are they
nows" of the bubble, like Exodus and PSINet. Let's do another round - I say
"New York City," and I'd wager that "cheap rent" wasn't the first thing you
thought of, either. So it may surprise you to learn that one hosting company
that's been around since 1993 and that's actually making money, Logicworks
(www.logicworks.net), just happens to be based in New York City.
What's their secret? Talk to CEO, Carter Burden, and he'll tell ... (more)
Greg Wallace is Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Emu Software, Inc. Greg received his MBA and Masters of International Affairs degrees from Columbia University in New York City. He also spent a year as a Rotary Foundation Scholar at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He can be reached at gwallace@Linux.SYS-CON.com
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