Paul Rubens

Plenty of industry observers are wondering about the future of Solaris and OpenSolaris now that Oracle controls them. Based on Oracle’s past, the company may very well go in a far different direction with these Unix OSes. Oracle is a very big software company, and Larry Ellison is a very rich man. How did they […]

While server virtualization is exploding into data centers around the world, the technology for securing virtual environments is lagging behind. It’s a fact likely to give some organizations that have gone down the virtualization path some very acute server security headaches, according to James Collinge, product line management director at network security solution provider TippingPoint, […]

Talk to an Apple fanboy or girl, and chances are they’ll tell you the company’s Mac software is “better” than Microsoft’s — or anyone else’s for that matter. So there will be a few of them slinking around holding their heads in shame right now thanks to some research published recently by security company Secunia. […]

When Microsoft turns into an alley thug, you can be pretty sure the company has something other than its server OSes on its mind. Recently, the company got itself into a right old barney with Salesforce.com, launching a lawsuit over nine CRM-related patents on which it claims Salesforce.com is infringing. The two organizations, let’s not […]

There’s also no obvious reason to assume that any service provider will be more able to provide good cloud security, and that means you will need to carry out due diligence, work out what the cloud security requirements are for your data, and check that a given cloud computing service provider can meet those requirements, […]

If you run your business using Microsoft’s Windows server OSes, then you really don’t have to worry. The Redmond giant is rolling in cash thanks in no small part to the high prices it charges for its desktop and server OSes and the client access licenses it requires to connect one to the other. But […]

Microsoft has been busy these past few days reminding the world that it really is an organization of monstrous proportions and its tendrils reach from the humblest consumer desktop right up to the level of super-computing. Its message is clear: The company has no intention of giving up any of the markets in which it […]

Having paid a royal sum for Sun, one might expect Oracle to be a major Unix promoter. Yet apparently that’s not the case. Based on Oracle’s recent actions, it seems the company is hell-bent on driving as many of its potential customers as possible away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into […]

Novell, the parent company of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, seems to have slapped a huge “For Sale!” sign on its front lawn. It’s sad, but this famous enterprise OS maker may soon be little more than a mildly interesting footnote to history. A few weeks back, the company received an unsolicited conditional proposal from the […]

Red Hat? SUSE Linux? Apache? MySQL? These are bad, evil, un-American entities. Apparently. They and the rest of those dirty rotten open-source software scoundrels are responsible for a “tidal wave of losses in U.S. jobs and competitiveness.” That’s the view of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), a group of trade bodies that includes such […]