Author: Brian P Watson

Red Hat: Staying on Course

The announcement that Novell and Microsoft were collaborating to boost interoperability between their platforms and other products may have shaken up the software world, but,

Open Source: The Price of Freedom

Open source thrives on technology managers’ penchant for avoidance—that is, their desire to dodge software licensing fees and vendor lock-in. Until recently, only two companies

Novell: Sleeping With the Enemy?

In November 2006, Waltham, MAss.- based Novell announced an agreement with Microsoft to collaborate on making interoperable Novell’s open-source SUSE Linux and Microsoft’s proprietary Windows

Video Résumés: A New Way To Land A Job?

First Aleksey Vayner’s video résumé made him infamous. Now it may have spawned a niche market. Vayner’s almost seven-minute film, dubbed “Impossible is Nothing,” showcased

For Servers, a Disappearing Act

Back when mainframes ruled, virtualization was a given. It’s taken some time, though, for the technology to break into the server market. Now, it’s here–but

VMware: Speeding Ahead

Ask VMware customers what they like about the market leader in virtualization software, and they’ll say quick deployments and advanced features. Ask users who didn’t

Microsoft: Ramping Up

Bill Fields, software developer with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court-District of Arizona, says he got a pretty sweet deal from Microsoft. He used Microsoft’s first virtualization