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Linux Vendors Move To Standard Platform
News Several Linux vendors have moved to standardise their customised operating environments on a single platform, the companies announced on Thursday. Major software vendors such as Borland, Computer Associates, IBM and SAP, as well as hardware vendors...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
Linux Vendors Ready Asianux 2.0
News Software vendors in China and South Korea are expected to release the Asianux 2.0, an Asian Linux distribution, later this week. They also hope to get Linux vendors from other Asian companies involved in the distribution, which is already being...
[August 24, 2005, 16:30]
MS, Sun, Linux Vendors Sell To Power Users
News The Linux vendors aren't conceding the high-end space to the big boys. Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and other operating system vendors will try to impress the high-powered financial services industry this week with top-of-the-line offerings.
[June 22, 2000, 9:12]
Linux Vendors Hope To Ride PC Upgrade Wave
News Linux vendors are salivating at the prospect of taking market share away from Microsoft's Windows in the PC desktop market as enterprises embark on the biggest desktop refresh since Y2K. However, the use of Linux in enterprise servers has grown...
[May 21, 2004, 13:10]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Analyst Report
News Linux vendors Debian, Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrakesoft have attacked a recent Forrester report that compared Microsoft's security with that of Linux. But Linux vendors are unhappy with the results. The best performing Linux vendors -- Red Hat and...
[April 7, 2004, 16:40]
Linux Vendors Release Security Patches
News Linux vendors Red Hat, Novell and Mandrakesoft on Wednesday released patches for several vulnerabilities, ranging from flaws that could allow denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to buffer overflows. The vulnerabilities would affect most SuSE Linux...
[January 14, 2005, 7:50]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
News In the aftermath of Ballmer's mail, ZDNet UK sought out a reaction from the various Linux vendors to Microsoft's allegations that the open-source OS is expensive and untrustworthy. He claims the study concludes that upgrading Windows was cheaper...
[October 28, 2004, 15:54]
Linux Vendors To Unify Efforts
News However, the implementation of the LSB will be slow, and it may not necessarily give smaller Linux vendors a leg up in competition with Red Hat. Several major companies are to announce "significant developments" in the Linux world on Thursday...
[May 29, 2002, 15:36]
Microsoft Takes Swipe At Linux Vendors' Legal Story
News Microsoft has criticised the IP indemnification offered by Novell, Red Hat, HP and IBM -- the main vendors of the Linux operating system. It claims that Microsoft offers better indemnification than any Linux vendor and has highlighted specific...
[November 5, 2004, 13:28]
Linux On Desktop Will Be 'cheaper And More Secure', Claim Vendors
Talkback Linux allows things like sharing a single machine for many light users, virtualising servers, breaking the one machine-one application NT model. Linux comes with technologies unheard off in the Windows world : USB memory key booting (with encrypted...
[October 11, 2004, 13:15]
Linux On Desktop Will Be 'cheaper And More Secure', Claim Vendors
Talkback A linux desktop if not setup correctly will be just as insecure as a windows desktop. If people shift over to linux viruses will start to appear then linux users will be stuck with little protection!
[September 28, 2004, 18:09]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback In Europe , Asia whole countries are leaving the Microsoft OS for better alternatives like Linux/mac/Free BSD and other. USA's defence have already left Microsoft behind and have installed Linux to save moey and to be more secure.
[October 28, 2004, 22:41]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback Open source is good, but tell us more http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39171751,00.htm
[October 29, 2004, 2:08]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback I will honestly never know why Microsoft wants to destroy the competition with back-handed, false lies in smear campaign adverts, than try to make a product that can fairly rival the competiton. I think it cost too much to take WiMP out of Windows...
[October 29, 2004, 2:15]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback When I first started using Linux, I had to get used to root passwords, and account passwords(very annoying). With Linux I have found that the TPM(Total Peace of Mind) during the mydoom attacks and other attacks too numerous to remember when my co...
[October 31, 2004, 2:37]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback My boss just bought an WinXP powered laptop, and tried to install antivirus software on it. The time he established the connection and downloaded the updates, the laptop was infected with Sasser. Gasp.
[November 3, 2004, 12:29]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback Microsofts' 'get the facts' URL needs a redirection to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3600724.stm PERIOD.
[November 3, 2004, 19:03]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback When the dog barks, it is afraid of something, like what Baldmer is doing now!
[October 28, 2004, 20:10]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback I wish that number of Linux and Windows desktops in the world be 50/50. So far Linux has been used only by developers, which would never admit any flaw on that perfect system, but only try to hack Windows systems, used on 98% of computers.
[October 28, 2004, 20:31]
Linux Vendors Hit Back At Ballmer's Email
Talkback I have had several computer novices give different pieces of open source software, commonly OOo and Mozilla offerings but also Linux, a shot. The last comments sound like something that someone who either works for Microsoft or has never tried open...
[October 28, 2004, 21:20]
