Biography
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Solaris 10 Shines in Early Testing
The increasing prominence of freely licensed Linux has prompted many to view operating systems in general as a commodity. With Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems hopes…
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Integrating Windows and Linux Desktops
It departments charged with integrating Linux clients among the Windows desktops they’re running can make life easier by administering Linux user accounts with Microsoft Corp.’s…
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Desktop Linux: Sun Shines
Desktop Linux is good enough to supplant Windows in a number of enterprise desktop roles, and it has been for some time now. However, major…
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Novell Continues to Buy Open Source
Is Novell committed to open source? That was the headline of a column I wrote a few months ago in which I argued that Novell…
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Desktop Linux To-Do List
For Linux to become a real competitor to Windows on the desktop, Linux distributors must refine their software installation and management systems. There are some…
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Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org
In recent years, open-source alternatives to Office have matured to the point where IT managers are beginning to investigate the viability of moving from the…
