Enterprise Software & Services

Might Windows 8 or 9 actually have Linux under the hood?

It's not only long-time Linux true believers who say that Linux will eventually wipe out Windows. An former Microsoft employee of 11 years says that "proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed," and believes that Microsoft's future lies in releasing its own version of Linux.

This pilot fish has watched his IT shop grow from a single IBM minicomputer to dozens of servers connected to hundreds of PCs over the past 20 years, and these days he only occasionally sits in on a department meeting. But sometimes, that's a good thing.

This week on Security Levity... how China views Web filtering. It should be no surprise that the Chinese government is sensitive about certain forms of speech. We in the West may not like it, but...

Open-source software is quickly making its way into the federal government.

The new Ubuntu is more than just a good Linux desktop distribution; it's Canonical's shot at the business server big-time.

This week on Security Levity... the second in a series of posts about spam in different cultures. This time: Nigeria, home of the 419 scam. We've all received advance-fee fraud come-ons: typically, badly-worded invitations to help a bank teller "liberate" money from a forgotten bank account. The basic idea is to gradually draw you into a web of lies, play on your greedy appetite for easy money, and then hit you for some "expenses"... or worse.

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The City of Los Angeles has had it with GroupWise, and will replace it with Google Apps. It's a big win for la GOOG, especially as it beat Microsoft to the deal. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers count how many angels can dance on a cloud.
(GOOG) (MSFT) Not to mention iPhone costumes...

Google is using another clever tactic to get mobile users to use their service. Today on the Google Voice Blog, they've announced that Google Voice is available to people who don't want (or aren't sure if they want) a Google phone number.

Did you know that regardless of your infrastructure, you have the largest, most powerful performance enhancing platform in the world at your disposal? This platform is vast, infinitely scalable and most of all, it's free. What is it and how do I sign up? It's the internet itself! Let me give you an example of how to take advantage of this.

Linux isn't for fanboys anymore -- it's for IT.

President Barack Obama's White House has chosen Drupal to run the whitehouse.gov Web site. They say George W. Bush's old CMS wasn't cutting it any longer. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers resist equating open source with socialism. Not to mention mugshot shirts...

ZL Technologies, an archiving vendor, is suing Gartner Group for $1.7 billion. It seems that ZL didn't like its position in Gartner's famous Magic Quadrant. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers mostly ridicule both parties -- and poke fun at anyone who bases IT purchasing decisions on a Magic Quadrant. Not to mention more from Pomplamoose...
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Microsoft will get the headlines tomorrow with the release of Windows 7, but, on the server side of life, Red Hat is quietly becoming a dominant player.

This week on Security Levity... the delayed DNS hack. Spammers and botnet developers are an ingenious bunch. If spam wasn't so obnoxious and criminal, it would be easy to be impressed by some of their imaginative technical solutions.

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