Latest News from Greg Wallace

Open Source: Changing the Enterprise Software Supply Chain for Good

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:00:00 EST

The open source software development model clearly represents a profound and fundamental change from traditional, proprietary development models. In the proprietary world, a software company invests massive dollars in development, sales, and marketing.

Enterprise Open Source: Where Are You Going, OSS? Supply and Demand

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:15:00 EST

Bob Young recently spoke at the TriLUG Linux Users Group in Raleigh, North Carolina. His talk covered several topics, from why he founded Red Hat, to his latest online publishing venture, Lulu (www.lulu.com), to the need for greater public debate about copyright and patent law. In response to a question from the audience about where he thinks Open Source Software (OSS) will dominate and where Proprietary, Closed Source software will excel, Mr. Young offered a very useful commentary.

Taking Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and PHP to Their Logical Extreme

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:15:00 EDT

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.

C3 Conference and Expo

Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:00:00 EDT

How much time do three experts need to explain the ins and outs of the embedded Linux market? The answer is one hour and 15 minutes. That's how long Dr. Stephen Edwards of Columbia University, Ross Rubin of NPD Techworld and Oren Teich of MontaVista spent on the topic on June 30th during the Future of Embedded Linux panel session at the C3 Expo in New York City. Yours truly had the privilege of moderating this distinguished panel.

MareNostrum Supercomputer (a.k.a. Spain's Brain)

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:00:00 EDT

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.

Who Should Be Behind a Linux "Get the Facts" Campaign

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:30:00 EDT

If you do business around Microsoft products, it's obvious where you go for answers on the benefits of their products - Microsoft. However, if you're looking for this kind of information about Linux, where do you go? IBM, Red Hat, Novell, Sun, or all of the above? I believe there's a need for a collective resource for the Linux business case.

IBM Workplace Managed Client

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:00:00 EDT

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.

Enterprise Linux Briefs: BitDefender Linux Products Blossom

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:00:00 EDT

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.

IT Security Spending: It's Like Meeting Your In-laws

Mon, 30 May 2005 12:15:00 EDT

Here's an understatement: security has been pretty front and center lately. When was the last time the 'S' word hasn't been somewhere on the cover of at least one of the weekly IT magazines?

Enterprise Linux Server Migrations: It Takes a Village

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

Please forgive me as I dust off a cliché from the 1990s business press - the Business Ecosystem - which, despite its overuse, really is a good concept that can be effective when appropriately applied. Dictionary.com defines an ecosystem as 'An ecological community, together with its environment, functioning as a unit.' Porting this concept to business, you get something like: 'A community of businesses functioning together in a common operating environment to solve customers' problems.'

Configuration Management Tools Can Ease the Migration From Microsoft to Linux

Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

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.