Serdar Yegulalp

There’s been little question, for a long time now, that the free-and-open-source office suite OpenOffice.org (or OO.o) has been stagnating. It’s a grand and daring project that’s been choking on its own inertia for too long. The good news is that some fresh blood may finally be entering its veins, in the form of the […]

I’m about to do something that will have more than a few people who know me thrashing around and screaming in horror. I’m replacing a free application with one I’m paying money for. To be precise, I’m replacing what I use of OpenOffice.org 3.2 with Microsoft Office 2010. Shock! Gasp! Well, it wasn’t like I […]

Just when you thought the browser wars were long-dead, they’ve roared back to life in a totally new incarnation. At stake this time is nothing less than the future of the way many of us work, now that the Web is an “application” and not just a place to read static pages. The new wave […]

Desktop virtualization software uses technology that is similar to its more popular cousin, server virtualization. What’s different is how they’re presented to the end user. Server virtualization typically exposes virtual machines to end users via the network, either through a remote desktop or simply as a server itself. Desktop virtualization makes the virtual machine accessible […]

The conventional wisdom about Linux is that it isn’t owned or created by any one company, but instead a whole group of players that give and take as needed. That said, there are several major companies that are readily identifiable as the biggest corporate sponsors of Linux, who market Linux most directly to enterprises, and […]

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A hypervisoris a software technology used in virtualization, which allows several operating systems to run side-by-side on a given piece of hardware. Unlike conventional virtual-computing programs, a hypervisor runs directly on the target hardware’s “bare metal,” instead of as a program in another operating system. This allows both the guest OSes and the hypervisor to […]

A virtual PC, or a PC with desktop virtualization software, is an end-user implementation of virtual computing where a desktop application (rather than a server) is used to emulate a PC. With a virtual PC, the emphasis is on direct interaction with the virtualized machine as if it were a local PC, rather than simply […]

ALSO SEE: Are SaaS/Cloud Computing Vendors Offering Questionable Contracts? There’s been at least as much healthy skepticism about cloud computing as there has been optimism and real results. And there ought to be, especially as cloud computing moves out of buzzword territory and becomes an increasingly powerful tool for extending IT resources. To that end, […]

ALSO SEE: Can SAN Services Replace Your Storage Network? AND: Implementing SAN Services SAN services is an increasingly popular technology used by businesses seeking greater flexibility in their data storage. A SAN, or storage area network, provides raw storage devices across a high-speed network, and is typically sold as a service of some kind to […]