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Ballmer memo on where Microsoft is hea...
Full text of a memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out this message to the rank and file yesterday, after the announcement that Windows and online chief Kevin Johnson was leaving.... More
The BPI's grand waste of paper
Now that I've written my straight news story on the BPI's imminent scare campaign against illegal filesharing, I thought I'd vent my spleen on the subject. What's going to happen... More
VMware out with results and free deal
It is busy days at VMware as the company said goodbye to its president and chief executive, faced rumblings from investors worried about the company's strategy and then decided to come... More
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Cutting costs with pay-as-you-go servers
David Berlind discusses the cost benefits of outsourcing servers to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, a pay-as-you-go service that allows the control of servers virtually through APIs more
Microsoft plans 'mega data centre' in Ireland
Microsoft said in a statement that the planned Dublin centre will house tens of thousands of servers providing information and web-based applications to internet users. more
Red Hat pushes Linux as a service model
In a sprawling series of announcements on Wednesday, the Linux operating system vendor updated its virtualisation abilities in a new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) more
Microsoft to offer unbundled hypervisor
Changing its earlier plans, the company has said customers will be able to buy the virtualisation technology without committing to Windows Server more
AMD chief touts virtualisation virtues
At Oracle OpenWorld, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz discusses how virtualisation can be of benefit in addressing the challenges of efficient energy and affordable internet access more
Virtualisation: Oracle sets sights on VMware's lead
The company claims its recently unveiled Oracle VM virtualisation product is three times more efficient than competing offerings more
Dell to ship Sun Solaris 10 on PowerEdge servers
Under the partnership between the two rivals, Dell will distribute Sun's OS on PowerEdge servers and provide support services more
Crunching the numbers on data-centre efficiency
Tangible metrics on server performance can help cut through some of the greenwash around sustainable IT, but they can prove difficult to acquire more
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Can you imagine what would have happened if the great philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists and writers had patented their ideas so that nobody else could use them without paying. We today wouldn't be able to have a conversation without violating somebodies intellectual property. The arguement of the free software community is that software should be treated in the same manner, copyrightable but not patentable.
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