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Assessing Migrating To The Linux Operating System For Converged Communications Solutions
White Papers The Linux operating system offers many benefits for telephony solutions, including greater reliability and scalability, increased performance, and enhanced manageability. The goal of this white paper is to enable you to make a balanced assessment...
[July 8, 2004, 3:00]
An Application Centric Performance Evaluation Of The Linux 2.6 Operating System
White Papers Over the last several years, the Linux operating system has gained rapid acceptance in many scientific and commercial environments as the operating system of choice. The Linux operating system is being utilized in rather vast and distinct server...
[September 21, 2004, 3:00]
China Central Television (CCTV) Increases Efficiency Of Animation Production With Intel Platforms Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System (OS)
White Papers Intel architecture is also certified by Red Hat for stability on its Linux Operating System (OS). Animation as an art form has been in China since the 1920s. A large population, including some 200 million teenagers, is still fascinated with...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Hardening Practices Of The Linux Operating System Within Avaya Communication Manager
White Papers The Linux Operating System has grown in popularity over the last decade with promises of an "open-source" alternative other operating systems. This paper outlines the steps Avaya is taking to harden the Linux operating system for use in its media...
[February 3, 2005, 2:00]
Microsoft Webcast: The Microsoft Perspective On Windows Server And Linux For Server Operating Systems (Level 100)
White Papers On x86 servers, the two most commonly considered server operating systems are Windows Server and Linux. This webcast separates fact from fiction and provide an overview of how Windows Server and Linux match up in key IT and business requirements.
[April 16, 2008, 23:12]
Butler Group Report-Linux In The Enterprise: A Viable Alternative For Server And Desktop Operating Systems?
White Papers Above all else, what Linux provides is the opportunity to reduce the number of platforms supported, by removing the need for close coupling between the OS and specific hardware. IT management needs to take a long, hard look at their heterogeneous...
[November 11, 2005, 14:02]
Berendsen Halves Its IT Operating Cost With Linux
White Papers In 2003, when Berendsen decided to replace a poorly performing mainframe environment that was expensive to maintain and scale, it chose Oracle Database on Linux. The UNIX to Linux migration proved easy since Berensen's IT staff had already taken...
[November 21, 2005, 23:00]
Server Operating System Licensing & Support Cost Comparison: Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 And Novell/SUSE Linux 8
White Papers Many factors are considered when making a network operating system platform decision. While the direct acquisition costs of licensing and support clearly play a role in IT decisions, this paper has found - after comparing such costs in medium and...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
MandrakeSoft Packs New Linux Distribution With Goodies
News European Linux distributor MandrakeSoft released the latest major edition of its operating system, Mandrake Linux 8.0, on Thursday. MandrakeSoft, a French-based company, describes its version of the popular Unix-based operating system as "a user...
[April 19, 2001, 15:40]
Red Hat Pushes Linux As A Service Model
News 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). It costs a lot of money to do this for different versions of Windows...
[November 8, 2007, 15:39]
Linux To Power Most Motorola Phones
News Motorola will begin selling its first mobile phone based on Linux this year and says most future models will follow suit, a major sign of the growing popularity of operating system outside its stronghold on high-end computers.
[February 13, 2003, 7:43]
OpenVZ Virtualisation Comes To Power Chips
News OpenVZ lets a single version of the Linux operating system be subdivided into semi-independent domains through a technology called virtualisation. OpenVZ software is useful for increasing Linux server efficiency, but most attention today is devoted...
[October 13, 2006, 9:40]
Sun's Latest Java Targeted At Linux Gadgets
News Sun Microsystems has released a version of Java for small gadgets using the Linux operating system, the company said Wednesday. Sun has a lukewarm attitude about the Linux operating system, which competes with Sun's Solaris and is popular chiefly...
[January 31, 2001, 15:55]
IDC: 'Linux Is Now Mainstream'
News Sales of new and used PCs running the Linux operating system will reach $10bn by 2008, market researcher IDC predicted on Wednesday. In the earlier forecast, using IDC's standard methods, the researchers count a Linux server sale only if that's the...
[December 16, 2004, 7:40]
Red Hat Names New Chairman
News Red Hat, the leading seller of the Linux operating system, on Thursday named chief executive Matthew Szulik chairman of the board of directors. Szulik faces the challenge of turning Linux, an open-source operating system that is licensed for free...
[April 11, 2002, 15:59]
Asian Enterprises Turn To Linux
News Asian firms are increasingly running their server applications on Linux operating systems, driven primarily by cost concerns. In addition, Linux tends to eat more into Windows' market share than any other operating system such as Netware and Unix...
[January 22, 2002, 10:10]
LinuxWorld Opens Amid Optimism
News Linux advocates will convene at a trade show in New York this week to promote their wares, tout customers, swap business cards and make their case that the operating system is growing up. Those methods will be on display on Wednesday through Friday...
[January 20, 2003, 10:49]
Latest Lindows Preview Adds Click-N-Run Software
News Lindows.com this week released a second "Sneak Preview" of its Linux-based operating system, adding features for streamlining the process for installing new software and for viewing and printing non-Linux file formats.
[April 10, 2002, 12:27]
Palm Touts Stability Of Linux-based Treos
News Palm is developing a Linux-based operating system for its handheld devices, the company's chief executive, Ed Colligan, revealed on Tuesday. Palm's move into mobile Linux is interesting because open-source operating systems have until now been more...
[April 11, 2007, 13:35]
What Torvalds Really Thinks Of Solaris
News When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system that arguably suffered most was Sun's Solaris. Has Linux made you more humble or has it boosted your ego?
[December 21, 2004, 14:20]
