Recent Articles
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Ubuntu Upgrade Brings Ugliness
Ubuntu’s star shines a little less brightly since a recently released patch knocked out its users’ graphical user interface. Affected users saw—the horror, the horror—a blue screen of death. While this screen had more useful information than the Microsoft blue screen, it still wasn’t useful to confused users. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS users who installed updates…
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Scalent Adds Solaris Support to Virtualization Software
Scalent Systems last November launched its data center virtualization product, dubbed Virtual Operating Environment, or V/OE, with support for Windows and Linux. With the upcoming next generation of the software, announced Aug. 27, the Palo Alto, Calif., company is offering support for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris 10 operating system on both SPARC and x86 hardware, as…
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Symbol Appoints RFID Sales Chief to Top Channel Post
Symbol Technologies appointed Aug. 23 Sanford “Sandy” Preizler, former head of RFID sales, to lead its channel effort as products and channels become more important to each other at the mobility components and solutions manufacturer. Symbol is capping a three-year channel turnaround, growing indirect sales from 45 percent of revenue in 2003 to more than…
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Eric Raymond Speaks Out on Desktop Linux
Eric S. Raymond is one of the founders of open source, and a good deal of Linux’s early popularity came from his nonstop beating of the drum for the free software operating system. Then, a few years ago, he bowed out of the limelight to live his own life. Recently, however, Raymond has showed signs…
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Google Faces a Tall Order in MS Office Challenge
Looking at the prospect of a Google office suite, and at how that package might fare in competition with Microsoft’s Office, requires at least a five-point examination. A credible competitor for Microsoft’s Office must offer good answers to questions concerning application design, user training, enterprise process customization, data control and client computer support. Whatever Microsoft’s…
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Keep It Simple
For technology to deliver on its promise of increasing productivity, it must be simple to use in addition to being reliable. But technology companies don’t always get that. Instead, many would rather pile on features and capabilities that ultimately hinder, rather than empower, the user. The result: Users shy away from features they don’t need…
