Greg Wallace

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. They recoup their investment... (more)

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. I... (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" w... (more)

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 30t... (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 un... (more)

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... (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... (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 Op... (more)

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? All this focus on security may have left some sys admins feeling a tad like Greg Fokker ... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 fe... (more)