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In search of the bottom line

  • InfoWorld: Platforms; By Robert McMillan (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 8:36 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Linux on the desktop might mean freedom from software-licensing costs for some IT departments. But when it comes to evaluating desktop Linux’s TCO, it’s the human cost that is most important. According to industry research company IDC, the staff-related costs of system administration, support, development, and training typically amount to between 50 and 70 percent of the costs of the average enterprise application, when measured over a five-year period. By comparison, software costs for both client and server software total only 8 percent to 10 percent of TCO, IDC reports.

The business case for desktop Linux

  • InfoWorld: Platforms; By Robert McMillan (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 8:26 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
It’s one of the perennial questions facing the open source movement: Is Linux ready for the corporate desktop? Ready or not, Linux is coming.

Is Oracle Beating the Linux Pants Off of IBM?

  • Yahoo! News - Linux/Open Source (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 8:20 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, Oracle
The Oracle-IBM feud over Linux will ratchet a notch higher at LinuxWorld next week, what with the lethal anti-IBM weaponry Mike Rocha will be packing.

Investing in the Linux client

  • InfoWorld: Platforms (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 8:11 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
User experience, application availability, ease of maintenance, and stability are often chief concerns when deciding whether to deploy Linux on the desktop. For the Allied Irish Bank, however, the decision to move the 8,000 clients in the company’s U.K. retail banking network from Windows to Linux had more to do with the server than anything else.

OSCON highlights new kind of community, componentized Linux, and GNOME desktop

OSCON, Portland, Ore -- Talk of a new type of software development community that spills into more traditional communities such as towns, churches and country clubs was matched with a new kind of pick-and-choose, componentized Linux distribution, and renewed efforts to push Gnome to desktop success at OSCON's second to last day.

Manageability is a must for Linux to succeed on the enterprise desktop

  • InfoWorld: Platforms; By Paul Venezia (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 6:07 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Linus Torvalds has said that he thinks Linux on the desktop is at least five years, maybe 10 years, away. There are many folks who want to prove him wrong, and perhaps that was his impetus. Regardless, for desktop Linux to succeed in the corporate network, vendors must concentrate on management.

An Interview with Gary McGraw, Co-author ofExploiting Software: How to Break Code

  • LinuxSecurity.com - Feature Stories (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 6:03 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Interview
Gary McGraw is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking work on securing software, having co-authored the classic Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley, 2002). More recently, he has co-written with Greg Hoglund a companion volume, Exploiting Software, which details software security from the vantage point of the other side, the attacker. He has graciously agreed to share some of his insights with all of us at LinuxSecurity.com.

Linux nearly ripe for the enterprise desktop

  • InfoWorld: Platforms; By Paul Venezia (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 5:04 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft
One of the more divisive concepts in IT these days is Linux on the desktop. There are those who would prefer nothing else, pointing to myriad security and stability problems found in Microsoft operating systems, and there are those who would prefer it not at all, talking about wide disparities among Linux distributions, insufficient management tools, the lack of certain software, and esoteric hardware compatibility issues.

Linux and hardware still have trouble getting along

  • InfoWorld: Platforms (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 4:10 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
A major hurdle for any Linux desktop rollout is hardware compatibility, or lack thereof. Whether leveraging older hardware or rolling out new systems, ensuring that every component in the desktop works as it should is key.

Opinion: Why MS Windows isn't ready for the Desktop

Now as you have most likely surmised from the title, this article is intended to spoof the plethora of articles proclaiming that 'Linux is NOT, has NOT, and NEVER will be ready for the desktop', but the content of this article is also intended to be both factual and informative for those that have been schnookered by the anti-Linux hype.

Novell to debut server Linux update

  • CNET News.com; By Stephen Shankland (Posted by dave on Jul 31, 2004 3:30 AM CST)
  • Groups: Novell; Story Type: News Story
Novell plans to release a new version of its flagship server Linux product on Tuesday, built around a recent update to the core of the open-source operating system, sources said.

OSCON winds down with success story, economic nonsense, and a big gorilla

The final day at OSCON kicked off with an encouraging and standing ovation-evoking keynote from Cartography Associates President David Rumsey, who laid out how open source principles may be applied to an emerging "digital library world." That was followed by a Novell talk about the success of switching from proprietary to open source, a discussion of some "nonsense" economic theory, and a call for open source to step up and help feed a big, bad gorilla known as King Kong. Earlier OSCON stories: Day one, day two, day three, day four.

Xandros puts Linux into business Windows world

Xandros Inc. has released a new version of its business Linux desktop with upgraded Windows integration features. The OS is an evolution of Corel Corp.'s Debian-based distribution, acquired in August 2001, and the company is one of the few Linux distributors with the desktop as their primary focus. Unlike the consumer-oriented Linspire (formerly Lindows), the Xandros Desktop OS is made to work with Windows networks, supporting Windows network file sharing, network authentication on Windows NT Primary Domain Controllers and Active Directory networks, NT log-on scripts, SAP and Citrix thin clients and IBM Terminal Emulators.

IBM to make Java database open source

  • CNET News.com; By Stephen Shankland and Martin LaMonica (Posted by dave on Jul 30, 2004 11:46 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM
Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open source project around Cloudscape, a specialized Java database, CNET News.com has learned.

Conectiva update for sox (CLA-2004:855)

Conectiva update for samba (CLA-2004:854)

Gentoo update for sox (200407-23)

  • LWN.net (Posted by dave on Jul 30, 2004 11:05 AM CST)
  • Groups: Gentoo; Story Type: Security

Mandrake update for wv (MDKSA-2004:077)

Mandrake update for OpenOffice.org (MDKSA-2004:078)

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