5169 stories on
Sort by: Date | Relevance
News When questioned on whether Dell would promote Linux more heavily as an environmentally sustainable alternative to Microsoft Windows Vista, which has been criticised by Greenpeace and others for its reliance on powerful hardware and its influence...
[16 May 2008]
News Eventually, the goal will be to develop versions of the laptop to run both Linux and Windows, leaving the user to decide which operating system to run when the machine boots up, Negroponte said. Customers will be able to choose to run the computer...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper The presenter of this webcast examines how Symantec Backup Exec provides a cost-effective data protection solution that reduces IT overhead and extends media resources for Oracle and Oracle RAC environments on Windows and Linux.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper Critical enterprise Linux applications are being deployed in ever increasing numbers on IBM System z and zSeries servers. Equally important is the on-going capacity planning of z/VM and the Linux workloads.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper In this paper users can become better acquainted with using SuSE Linux on System z. Commands suggested in this paper should work on most SuSE Linux images running SLES8 or newer. In fact, the knowledge is generally valid across most distributions...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper The p570, based on innovative POWER6 processor technology, opens new horizons in computing technology for UNIX and Linux clients. With the introduction of the IBM System p5 570 using the POWER6 processor technology comes the potential for increased...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper describes different scenarios in which a customer could migrate their SAP system to the Linux operating system running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Crossing endian boundaries and interim OS images doesn't help an already difficult job.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper Although the company still runs its Web site on Linux, Overstock.com has increasingly turned to Microsoft software for the applications that support its mission-critical fulfillment processes, data warehouse environment, and online marketing efforts.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper Often, it is desirable to perform tasks remotely on a Linux system(s) without actually doing a manual log in. These tools can range from the very simple to the more complex, but all tools referenced in this paper are relatively easy to implement...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper As this Sun whitepaper explores, the Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blade modular systems powered by AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors let businesses run the Solaris Operating System (OS), Linux or Windows today, and change direction tomorrow.
[16 May 2008]
News The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year. He told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "We...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper In the past, Web analytics solution provider WebTrends maintained its products on multiple platforms, with its products for Linux and UNIX accounting for 41 percent of costs but only 17 percent of revenue.
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper In the case of the Application Server, both AIX as well as Linux are measured for zSeries Application Servers. This paper describes several measurements, or stress tests, that were done using a zSeries Database Server and DB2 for z/OS in both non...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Secondly, there are known challenges in getting Red Hat Linux installed on these machines in a remote or "Lights out" environment, so the intent is to provide pointers to make this process go more smoothly.
[15 May 2008]
News Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. This was thrown out by the appeals court and Skype has abandoned its efforts to overturn the...
[12 May 2008]
whitepaper These legacy technologies are persistent, forming a collective of Windows and Linux servers that are costly to run and difficult to manage. Today's data center is an increasingly complex mixture of server platforms, hardware, operating systems...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper outlines the integration an FPGA based high-speed classifier engine integrated into the Linux Netfilter firewall as well as its deployment during a response action against the DDoS attack. Furthermore, the use-case of the web server...
[11 May 2008]
News The software is available for public download in US English on Linux, OS X, Solaris and Windows but Sun warned it is not considered suitable for production use. The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released...
[09 May 2008]
Comment So what you are saying is you have no systems management experience on Unix or Linux systems, especially if you regard them as "bulky" - have you taken a look at Vista's hardware footprint recently? First up this week, readers were engaging in...
[08 May 2008]
whitepaper Microsoft Partner Afkar Information Technology transferred the charity's Linux-based portal and the intranet to a new solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) wanted a Web environment for its...
[06 May 2008]
Sort by: Date | Relevance
Copyright ©1995-2008 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Top of page