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When clients ask me, 'Sam, honestly, how do I get started with open source?' it's usually clear that the first step is to install Mozilla Firefox on their Windows machines. The next step is to install the OpenOffice.org suite and help them plan a migration strategy away from MS Office...
So it's begun. Microsoft is admitting in its financial filings that Linux and open source are eating into its revenues. Worse for them, they say, is that what they're seeing is the tip of the iceberg.
The Linux Kernel Summit takes place every year and the last few years it's been held in Ottawa, Canada. Prior to that it was in San Jose, California. USENIX organizes the whole event and they're sponsored by various companies; Oracle is a big sponsor,as well as companies like IBM, HP, ...
It became apparent to me recently at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that our choice of words matters. I was standing at the Mozilla booth when two guys came up and peered over my shoulder. 'They're selling the T-shirts here, too,' one said with disappointment in his voice, 'Let's g...
In recent years, the adoption of Linux in the data center has progressed beyond infrastructure services such as e-mail and file, print, and Web serving. Today, Linux is widely used as a business application server and is moving deeper into the data center as a database and content serv...
The battle between IT professionals and those who use the Internet for destructive purposes is raging - and there's no end in sight. Reports of computer crime and incidents from the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University more than double each year and are expected to ri...
It's been several years since information appliances came and went. Devices like 3Com's Audrey and the Netpliance I-Opener were simplified computers, designed for Internet access.
In this issue, Bernard Golden, author of Succeeding with Open Source, discusses open source software, its pros and cons, and how to choose the right Linux implementation for your business.
The NAIS (NASA Acquisition Internet Service) organization provides procurement Web applications for the entire agency through a suite of 14 applications. Tools relating to efficient procurement, such as posting solicitations and looking up past performance data for contracts, are provi...
Online gamers have been flocking online en masse to play with friends, online players, and online gaming teams. Some gamers go on to compete in LAN tournaments and online gaming leagues for money and prizes. One common type of online game genre is called First Person Shooter (FPS).
Marcel Gagné is probably best known for his three-time award-winning monthly column called 'Cooking with Linux,' where he impersonates a French chef serving up fine Linux fare and (naturellement) wine. Here he shares his views on the Linux Desktop.
When companies purchase a significant number of machines and cluster them together to solve their computing needs, their site environment often drives specific requirements for their clusters.
LWM's senior contributing analyst, Bill Claybrook, spoke with Doug Levin (CEO and president), Palle Pedersen (CTO), and Karen Faulds Copenhaver (executive VP and general counsel) of Black Duck Software in Waltham, MA, about the company and their role in helping Linux and open source so...
I was introduced to Linux in 1992, when the first version was available. At the time I was visiting Poland and my company was building an inventory control system. One of our partners had decided to use Linux to run their inventory system. What led them to use this little-known operati...
You've seen time and time again in these pages that Linux rules on the server side of the game market. In the past I've focused on MMORPGs, those massive, persistent worlds where hundreds or thousands of people interact with each other and automated characters, making friends, allies, ...
Data protection is never more vital than in the world of health care, where sensitive and life-impacting data is the cornerstone of medicine. More than 3,600 physicians in 26 states turn to our company for outsourced claims reimbursement management, making backup and recovery as critic...
Not long ago, Epson America had a problem that many companies would love to have - a very successful corporate Web site. Let us explain.
As Linux continues its ascent in enterprise computing, major vendor support for business-critical applications is evolving to keep pace. Among the challenges enterprises and vendors face is the need for advanced security and accountability for root account users, application administra...
From the start it seemed obvious. In building an electronic voting system (known to the industry as a DRE, or Direct Recording Electronic), you must follow four key principles:
By this point in our discussion you should be comfortable with the idea of the three file descriptors associated with the Linux command line: stdin, stdout, and stderr (pronounced 'standard in,' 'standard out,' and 'standard error').
It's a fact of life for most of us: we all receive e-mail solicitations to 'Make Money Fast' or for a 'Mail Order Drugstore' or offensive or adult content that makes us blush, especially when a colleague is looking over our shoulder. Spam, a slang term for Unsolicited Commercial E-mail...
It seems as if every day a new Linux distribution emerges into the world. True, it can lead to some confusion in the marketplace and fragmentation of the Linux brand name, but open source is all about confusing the end user by having five equally good products that do the same thing, s...


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