Gartner underhypes open source
I'm not sure who Gartner talks to when it puts together its famous "Hype Cycle" reports, but I'm finding it hard to believe that it talks with enterprises. I was recently reading through its "Hype...
View ArticleOpen source up 26% in the enterprise
More good news for the open source community just in: an analysis of its enterprise customers by OpenLogic found that for 2007 as a whole, the use of open source among enterprise customers is up 26%...
View ArticleA sad state of affairs: open source in the UK
I stated yesterday that open source had not been widely adopted in the UK without really backing the statement up. Fortunately SiriusIT, the UK-based open source services firm, has revamped its site...
View ArticleLinux Market to Triple by 2012
Analyst firm Research and Markets has just put out a project on Linux-based server and client hardware sales, and is projecting that the market will more than triple between 2007 and 2012.
View ArticleFinally: the details about the final results of the BRM
As informed in my penultimate post, I’ve contacted ISO and IEC (actually Mr. Gabriel Barta from ITTF), and he stated that he only “recommended” that the details were not revealed, and that him cannot...
View ArticleWatch out Red Hat, there's someone following you
Red Hat has just released some remarkable results for the first US quarter. In a couple of years, it might find such achievements a mite harder to come by if the views of those who participated in a...
View ArticleLinux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent, study finds
It's possible that the Linux desktop will never be anything more than a fad among geeky enthusiasts. If so, a growing swell of people appear to be much more faddish of late, as numbers from...
View ArticleGartner: Open source will quietly take over
In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service.
View ArticleLinux on the server sees reliability gains
Mainstream Linux distributions for servers have caught up substantially with Unix in terms of reliability over the past year, while Windows Server 2003 downtime has risen by nearly 25 percent,...
View ArticleUbuntu has won the distro wars; now onto the desktop wars
Basically, Novell and Red Hat won’t be trying to get consumer desktop market share, focusing instead only on the ‘enterprise’ desktop market; Fedora and openSUSE thus appear to be relegated to...
View ArticleStudy: 70 percent say Red Hat more secure than Windows
The Standish group recently completed an extensive study that examines factors influencing open-source adoption. Based on five years of research and analysis, the report provides intriguing insights...
View ArticleRed Hat deal: when will we know more?
The agreement that Red Hat and Microsoft signed last week is something like a royal wedding - we all like the idea but we'd like to know a bit more about the demands made by the bride.
View ArticleHilarious Root Cause Analyses
Hopefully I'm not the only person in the IT world who finds this RCA spot-on ;)
View ArticleCollecting and analyzing Linux kernel crashes - LKCD
Having found the available information on system analysis rather sparse and/or written in such a fashion that is hardly of any use but to the people who wrote the actual documents,I have decided to...
View ArticleNetwork Analysis With Wireshark On Ubuntu 9.10
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer") that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc. This guide shows how to install and use it...
View ArticleGartner underhypes open source
I'm not sure who Gartner talks to when it puts together its famous "Hype Cycle" reports, but I'm finding it hard to believe that it talks with enterprises. I was recently reading through its "Hype...
View ArticleOpen source up 26% in the enterprise
More good news for the open source community just in: an analysis of its enterprise customers by OpenLogic found that for 2007 as a whole, the use of open source among enterprise customers is up 26%...
View ArticleA sad state of affairs: open source in the UK
I stated yesterday that open source had not been widely adopted in the UK without really backing the statement up. Fortunately SiriusIT, the UK-based open source services firm, has revamped its site...
View ArticleLinux Market to Triple by 2012
Analyst firm Research and Markets has just put out a project on Linux-based server and client hardware sales, and is projecting that the market will more than triple between 2007 and 2012.
View ArticleFinally: the details about the final results of the BRM
As informed in my penultimate post, I’ve contacted ISO and IEC (actually Mr. Gabriel Barta from ITTF), and he stated that he only “recommended” that the details were not revealed, and that him cannot...
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