Paul Rubens

There’s no getting away from it: Cloud computinghas many potential benefits, but it has a number of drawbacks as well. On the positive side, having applications provided from the cloud offers enterprises the possibility of all seizes the possibility of low-cost compute resources that are almost infinitely scalable. There’s the ability to pay “by the […]

If Walmart is looking for another product to add to its Great Value range, perhaps it should look no further than Linux. When the economy takes a dive there are always plenty of casualties in the marketplace, and classical economic theory tells us that expensive goods suffer the most. When the going gets tough, consumers […]

If you look at the enterprise server operating system market, there’s Microsoft’s Windows server platform, there’s the UNIX platform and there’s Linux. To characterize it very broadly, UNIX has a large server market share but is in decline, Windows has a similarly large market share and is holding steady, and Linux has a smaller market […]

Competing with pirated versions of its own software is hard for Microsoft, Steve Ballmer said at a Strategic Update meeting with analysts in New York last week. “Windows license, number one market share. Number two market share goes to Windows pirated, or unlicensed. That’s a competitor that’s tough to beat, they’ve got a good price […]

The security of your corporate data and the integrity of your company network are put at risk whenever you travel with a business laptop. That’s because the laptop is no longer protected by the physical security that your office provides, or the security systems designed to protect the software running on it. And any malware […]

Let’s take a look at Sun Microsystems, the once mighty Unix vendor and maker of servers that powered the Internet, circa 1982. And Red Hat, a company that’s been purveying Linux software since 1995. Sun sells more than $13 billion of goods and services per year, while Red Hat sells a little over $600 million. […]

Microsoft passed a death sentence on Vista in the enterprise when it handed out a working version of Windows 7 to delegates at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles last fall. When the new desktop OS goes gold later this year, it will offer some very real enterprise benefits over Vista. For the […]

Top-dog OSon the enterprise desktop? Linux and Apple had a golden chance to grab that title, and boy did they blow it! Despite having nothing better to offer enterprise customers than the ridiculous Vista or the ancient XP for the past two years, Microsoft still rules the enterprise desktop. And with Windows 7, that reign […]

Forget about Microsoft’s Azure, abandon your Amazon EC2 servers, cancel your Gmail account and head for the hills: It’s the end of the line for cloud computing. Why? Because Salesforce.com suffered a little service outage last week. What a load of nonsense! Reading some of the hysterical commentary on the Internet last week, you’d think […]

You could be forgiven for thinking corporate data centers are soon destined to be a thing of the past: “cloud computing” is a hot buzz phrase at the moment, and all the techno-chatter seems to be about writing Web 2.0 applications and sending them off to run somewhere out there in the cloud. For much […]