Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Red Hat announced a new learning services and master-level certification, the RHCA (Red Hat Certified Architect), to complement its Linux offerings. The new enterprise architect courses and RHCA certification are designed for experienced Linux system administrators who already have skills at the level of Red Hat Inc.’s RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) certification. The RHCA […]

It’s rather interesting, really. I know many people who hate both Microsoft’s Software Assurance plan and Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. They’re similar plans. You pay your money and you get all of the goodness both companies can give you for their respective software for a year or three. But […]

Two purveyors of popular IM (instant messaging) clients are taking their leave from the enterprise market. According to analysts, what is a retreat for some will be an opportunity for established players. First, Yahoo on Friday pulled the plug on its enterprise version of its free instant-messaging client, Yahoo! Business Messenger. Next, America Online Inc. […]

The jobs are going away. They won’t be back. Here in my home, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, it’s mostly light manufacturing jobs. But in the Silicon Valley; in Austin, Texas; in the Washington Beltway; and in Boston; it’s programming and help-desk jobs. In Redmond, Wash., it’s software architecture. You can […]

The SCO Group on Tuesday announced the release of a new version of its Unix operating system, SCO UnixWare 7.1.4, pushing the notion that it is still a Unix operating system company despite all of its Linux and litigation sound and fury. This latest release of The SCO Group Inc.‘s Unix operating system includes new […]

A Linux bug was recently uncovered by a young Norwegian programmer that, when exploited by a simple C program, could crash most Linux 2.4 or 2.6 distributions running on an x86 architecture. “Using this exploit to crash Linux systems requires the (ab)user to have shell access or other means of uploading and running the program—like […]

It’s been a busy time for SCO watchers. First, the company—somehow, some way—managed to twist its way out of its deal with BayStar Capital with the lion’s share of the cash, and BayStar was left holding millions of shares of underwater stock. Then, in this week alone, we’ve seen SCO report an absolutely awful second […]

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Lindows’ fortunes in its trademark battle with Microsoft took a new turn May 27 in Europe, when the Amsterdam District Court denied Microsoft’s request for an injunction to keep Lindows from selling its products in the region. The Dutch court—which also ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay 944 euros to Lindows Inc. for its legal fees—agreed […]

WiMax, an evolving standard for point-to-multipoint wireless networking, is poised to do for the last mile of broadband what Wi-Fi has done for the last 100 feet of networking. Unlike other wireless technology standards, WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) covers several different frequency ranges. The IEEE 802.16 standard addresses frequencies from 10GHz to 66GHz, […]

I have a love-hate relationship with Sun Microsystems. I love many of its products and technologies; I hate the way it presents and packages them. I feel like it can hardly manage one step forward without taking a step back. Take, for example, the confusion about the company’s operating systems for the x86 market. On […]

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied Microsoft’s appeal that the term “windows” be considered only as it is understood by the public today—not as it was when the company’s Windows was introduced in 1985—as the company’s trademark litigation against Lindows continues. The case has been sent back for trial to Judge […]