Serdar Yegulalp

With all of the screaming about the fate of MySQL under Oracle’s thumb, there’s been far less discussion about a much more important software project now under their control: Java. Java’s development as a language has been effectively stalled for years now. Other languages, better suited to the kind of rapid-fire development pace needed today, […]

Linux’s main merit, as a kernel and an ecosystem, is its open source nature. That means the software that runs on it has little choice but to be open source. This doesn’t mean closed-source software is unavailable on Linux—just that it’s got the deck stacked strongly against it. Because of this, software companies who don’t […]

Microsoft announced earlier this year that there would indeed be a Windows XP Service Pack 3, but that it would be released in the first quarter of 2008 — almost three and a half years after XP Service Pack 2! “Why is it taking so long?” people shouted? My reply: Windows Vista — but not […]

In the wake of the One Laptop Per Child project finally inching that much closer to delivering a product, the sub-$300 notebook PC—like ASUS’s Eee PC—is suddenly a hot item. So why hasn’t this happened sooner? Simple. PC makers couldn’t afford it—at least not until now. Ironic that while the basic costs and capacities of […]

When it comes to choosing between Windows and Linux for an enterprise, there are seemingly endless studies one can turn to about the total cost of ownership for either operating system. Yet one thing needs to be remembered, no matter which way you’re migrating: the human cost. Windows and Linux both require training and experience […]