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Linux Sees A Window In Enterprise Apps Market
News The potential savings from running Linux instead of Windows have already pointed by some public sector organisations, including the City of Bergen, which is expecting to make savings on software, hardware, licensing and support costs by moving its...
[November 22, 2004, 16:05]
Microsoft Expected To Offer Linux Software
News By 2006 or 2007, Linux will run on 45 percent of new servers, Meta Group predicted in a study released to clients on Monday. If it proves accurate, the Meta analysts' forecast would indicate a much more rapid adoption of Linux on servers than...
[December 10, 2002, 9:02]
IBM Reports Claim Linux Savings
News One report, called TCO For Application Servers: Comparing Linux With Windows And Solaris, calculated the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an application server, including the cost of acquiring, implementing, and running it.
[September 1, 2005, 17:45]
Oracle And Dell Draw Closer Together
News About a year ago, the two companies announced a deal to install Oracle's 9i database cluster software on Dell's two-processor PowerEdge 2650 servers, which run Linux. Oracle 10g Standard Edition is limited to run on two-processor servers.
[April 6, 2004, 10:45]
Verizon Saves Money With Linux
News Air New Zealand plans to use 150 Linux servers per mainframe, but the company tested the ability to run 10,000 copies of Linux simultaneously doing real work, Care said. The company is replacing 150 existing Compaq Computer Windows servers and a...
[August 15, 2002, 14:44]
Ellison Seeks Open-source Unity
News Overall, Ellison praised the open-source community, saying Linux has progressed far enough for large corporations to begin trusting it as a cheaper, faster and more reliable alternative to using Unix or Windows operating systems on servers.
[August 15, 2002, 11:32]
Red Hat Subscriptions Surge
News Linux became a business product for use on servers, but Red Hat has begun work to make it a better desktop operating system as well. With the lowest annual subscription cost, it's the version often used on clusters of servers joined to form a large...
[November 19, 2003, 9:25]
Sun Gets Serious About Cheap Servers
News Sun's servers differ in that they come with Solaris x86 or Linux, but not Windows, which is the predominant operating system for traditional Intel manufacturers. The two new servers -- the Sun Fire V60x and V65x -- run Intel Xeon processors but, by...
[May 20, 2003, 7:43]
Linux Gets Office XP Applications
News Another key project is Evolution, an open-source Linux groupware application, which allows users to connect to Exchange servers and dispense with Outlook altogether. Users are now able to run most of the applications in Office XP on Linux...
[April 23, 2003, 14:30]
Red Hat Ready To Tackle Microsoft's Desktop Dominance
News Red Hat, the leading seller of Linux, gets the vast majority of its revenue from the use of its product in servers -- more powerful networked computers typically run by technically proficient administrators.
[June 24, 2002, 16:41]
UK Company Launches Virtual Private Servers
News Linux-based VPSs are set up to work with the open-source Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails programming framework and run on Ubuntu 6.06, while Windows servers are equipped with SQL Server 2005 and ASP.net 2.0 running on 64-bit...
[April 3, 2008, 16:59]
Sun Looks To N1 For Storage Solution
News We're doing a lot on Linux," Zander said, mentioning the company's open-source StarOffice suite that competes with Microsoft Office, its Cobalt servers that run Linux, its open-source Forte programming tools and the iPlanet e-commerce software...
[February 7, 2002, 12:35]
Intel Takes Deerfield Downmarket
News Although the servers are generally less sensitive to pricing pressures than PCs, cost is a factor in the kind of markets Deerfield will address. The company plans to release a 3GHz Xeon for workstations and two-way servers containing a 1MB cache.
[July 10, 2003, 14:59]
Intel Debuts Low-cost Itanium 2 Chips
News Intel on Monday is to launch two new Itanium 2 chips, including an energy-efficient chip for blade servers and workstations that is priced to reach a mass market. Although the servers are generally less sensitive to pricing pressures than PCs, cost...
[September 8, 2003, 8:40]
Oracle Pushes Grid Plan
News He underscored Oracle's belief that the time is "ripe" for the concept to take hold among businesses because of the advent of low-cost computers such as the so-called blade servers from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems that...
[September 9, 2003, 14:05]
Microsoft OneCare Gets A Bashing
Talkback I run a Linux based perimeter firewall, a mixture of Linux and Windows 2003 servers and a mixture of Linux and Windows XP on the desktop. And all of MS's talk about Windows having a lower TCO than Linux is starting to look thin, you pay a couple of...
[May 14, 2005, 10:54]
Norway's Second City Embraces Linux
News The two-phase rollout will see the 20 existing Oracle database servers running on HP-UX that support the City's health and welfare applications replaced with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 running on HP Integrity Itanium 64 bit servers.
[June 15, 2004, 15:15]
Linux Brings Hope To Spain's Poorest Region
News The Ministry of Culture is part-way through a migration, having migrated around 60 percent of its 380 desktops, while the regional Ministry of Health will eventually run all medical applications on Linux servers and is migrating 14,000 PCs at...
[May 11, 2005, 13:30]
Oracle Sends Out 10g 'grids'
News Cisco, which sells custom applications built on Oracle databases, said that the grid features of Oracle 10g are particularly appealing on Linux because they allow customers to replace a single, more expensive server with a cluster of cheaper Linux...
[February 3, 2004, 8:35]
SuSE Wins Backing Of Veritas
News Pricing for the Linux and Unix versions is comparable for higher-end servers. Sun Microsystems' Solaris is the most widely used version of Unix and a prime candidate for companies that want to save costs by using Linux on less-expensive Intel-based...
[October 27, 2003, 8:35]
