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 In the beginning, the 800-pound gorilla of online industry was Prodigy, Inc. This joint venture between IBM and Sears Roebuck boasted 2.5 million subscribers in 1993, the year before Netscape broke open the Internet. Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 10,396 |  In a small or medium-sized business, the cost of telephone equipment, phone lines, and long distance calls can easily reach tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. A chief executive officer or operations manager, looking for ways to lower costs, finds there's few ways to do it. Equip... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 11,198 |  Open source telephony will play a key role in keeping North American companies competitive in today's global marketplace. Not only does open source reduce upfront and operational costs, it increases productivity and furthers innovation in ways proprietary technologies cannot. Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 12,664 |  Much as some people would like to paint Open Source licensing as a viral disease that can cause untold problems for innocent software companies, the truth is a lot less dramatic. Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 8,289 |  Fedora Core (http://fedora.redhat.com) is one of the world's most popular Linux distributions in part from support by Red Hat and a strong community of users. It also has been a proving ground for Red Hat to develop technologies that will eventually make their way into Red Hat Enterpri... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 29,784 |  You don't have to be around Linux for long before you hear about 'the dependency problem,' which is no problem at all for many users - until the day it bites them. In a nutshell, the problem is that most Linux applications depend on the operating system to provide various pieces of fun... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 10,606 |  There's been some interesting debate in the Open Source community regarding Open Source applications that run both on Linux and Windows. One camp feels most users select an operating system based on its available applications. If the applications people want are on Windows, they will t... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 10,006 |  For many businesses, the Web storefront is the only point of contact for customers, and for others it's a major one. As such, it's important that this architecture meets the needs of your business, not just from a technology point of view but from a strategic one. No business likes to ... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 23,590 |  We have all done it before. You accidentally type in the wrong argument to rm or select the wrong file for deletion. As you hit enter, you notice your mistake and your stomach drops. You reach for the backup of the system and realize that there isn't one. Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 74,038 Replies: 5 |  Every company that develops software whether for internal use or to sell to customers is now working in a new 'mixed-IP' environment created by the spread of Open Source. This new environment's impact on software development has been dramatic. Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 13,610 |  One of the obvious driving factors around enterprise Linux adoption has been the significant cost savings on software and hardware. Quite simply, the hardware is cheaper and the OS is cheaper. By taking advantage of the explosion of commodity Linux boxes - and by going the Linux route ... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 8,034 |  At first glance, you might think accounting systems are the main type of software that keep you using Windows systems. QuickBooks, Peachtree, Microsoft Money, and Quicken all run on Windows, and not directly in Linux. These programs have certainly captured the market for financial soft... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 34,091 Replies: 1 |  Some exciting things are happening in Barcelona, Spain. In order of presumed interest to LinuxWorld readers, these are: MareNostrum, the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world, which runs SuSE Linux on over 2,000 IBM blades, was recently christened in Barcelona. Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 11,348 |  In 1998, Michael Kunze wrote an article for c't, a biweekly German computing magazine, hoping to demonstrate that free software could be an effective substitute for its commercial counterparts. In the article, he coined the acronym 'LAMP' to describe an illustrative collection of avail... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 19,190 |  I've always been fond of the saying 'There are no absolutes' because I find the irony appealing. You see, despite being the editor-in-chief of a leading Linux magazine, I don't believe there's a best choice in operating systems other than the one that works best for you. Before you bra... Aug. 12, 2005 Reads: 12,224 |
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