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Today, it was narrowly reported that C programming language inventor and Unix co-creator Dennis Ritchie died after a long illness. He was 70. Earlier this month, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs also died after a long illness.

It’s quite the juxtaposition.

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) has unveiled its T4 processor, as well as its 9,600-thread SuperCluster behemoth. In the run-up to next week's Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd are proudly showing off their new stuff. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the feeds 'n' speeds. Not to mention: Guess the FUNCTION of the THING...

Ancient HP OpenMail backup restore request presented a pretty poser. 
I've recently been helping a consulting client restore some ancient data. It struck me that there are lessons here for today's IT operations: lessons to be learned from the mistakes of the past. Mistakes we'll try not to repeat, in The Long View...

In today's podcast: IBM offers its biggest Unix system yet; Dell acquires 3PAR for $1.1 billion; and India's YBrant to buy Lycos for $36 million.

This is only the beginning of Oracle's pruning of Sun's open-source legacy.

The open-source Unix distribution may live on, but Oracle won't be supporting it.

While SCO slowly drops into its grave, the company continues its anti-Linux lies.

SCO's anti-Linux efforts are done. Novell has won. Now what?

It's a few years ago, and everyone in this drugstore chain's IT shop is excited about adding the first Windows NT machine to its previously all-Unix server room -- and then the Halon alarm goes off.

Linux fans rejoice! The SCO v. Novell trial is over. Novell owns UNIX, Linux is unencumbered, SCO is penniless. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dance on SCO's grave. Not to mention flatulence facts...
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No, not all of them, but, too many free software fans make Linux look bad with their public vendettas against one Linux faction or another.

Novell vs. SCO and the fate of Unix is in a jury's hands.

After years of fighting, SCO CEO, and lead anti-Linux cheerleader, Darl McBride has finally been fired as the SCO snake comes closer to ending its dying thrashing.

Where we've been and where we're going.

SCO finally won one in its eternal fight against Linux's supporters, but the company has already all but collapsed, here, according to the experts, is what will happen next.