Jacqueline Emigh

With Microsoft trying to ramp up its Windows Virtual Server for release next year, Red Hat, Novell, Xandros, and other Linux vendors are pulling out the stops toward virtualization in hopes that Linux might start to beat Windows as the base operating system of choice among enterprises and small businesses. Also talking up plans and […]

Eyeing systems management as the next big market to “go open source,” Zenoss, Inc. is now trying to give mid-sized customers another alternative beyond the two main choices available so far: massive suites from the “Big Four” giants or a mishmash of specialized point solutions. “We’re focusing on the IT infrastructures of the ‘mid-market.’ These […]

In an effort to break some of Microsoft’s stranglehold on the desktop, Novell is taking new steps in the product and pricing arenas to attract customers who want to move either gradually or quickly to Linux. These strategies are seeing the light of day in a series of offerings unveiled at Novell’s recent BrainShare show, […]

Are Linux and open source implementations rising on Wall Street? “Yes,” said participants in a financial services IT trade show held this week in New York City, who cited Web services and incremental improvements to tech support as two big drivers. Beyond deploying Terracotta’s Web services solution with Red Hat Linux servers, for example, major […]

In the increasingly Microsoft-dominated land of law firms, Linux deployments remain just about nil, but security appliances are starting to stand out as one exception, according to attorneys and IT folks attending LegalTech. At the recent national show in New York City, partners from small to mid-size law firms said that while they’re aware of […]

From giants such as Sun and Computer Associates (CA) to start-ups such as Sourcefire and GroundWorks, companies are now stepping in to the open source market from a variety of directions and perspectives, as evidenced at last week’s Interop show in New York City. In fact, revenue opportunities from open source models served as the […]

In 2006, Novell will launch a “Linux awareness” program meant to migrate more customers, resellers, and development partners from NetWare and Microsoft Windows to open source alternatives. This, according to Ed Anderson, VP of global marketing for Novell’s Linux and open source solutions. Unlike most of its competitors, Novell currently sells both proprietary and Linux […]

Although the financial services industry has adopted Linux more slowly than first expected, Linux is now starting to hold more sway, even if often from behind the scenes, according to participants in this week’s High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York City. ”I like Linux,” said Chris Kwasnicki, VP/senior architect for capacity planning […]

Will Linux ever oust Windows from most peoples’ desktops? Backing from big vendors like Novell and Sun Microsystems certainly doesn’t hurt. Yet lingering barriers remain. During recent industry conferences, Linux veterans pointed to factors that include usability, fragmentation in users’ preferences, and the need for both more desktop applications and tech support. “A few years […]

In a flurry of recent launch events for Office System 2003, Microsoft highlighted a variety of new features for end users, ranging from improved e-mail access to a new “information gathering and management” application called InfoPath. More important to admins, however, are the many new capabilities lurking inside the system’s almost two dozen server and […]