Monthly Archives: January 2001
Bring on Challenges
Federal Government Spectrum auctions can resemble high-profile auctions in the movies: full of intrigue, dirty tricks and revenge. The story of the current auction...
Debt Defying
Despite market concern over the heavy debt loads of European telecom players, British Telecom had no trouble attracting investors to two of the biggest...
Operator No. 9: January 29, 2001
Your Tax Dollars Not at WorkThe U.S. Constitution may have helped ensure the smooth transition of power from the Clinton administration to the Bush...
Linux Needs Nontechnology Goodies to Sweeten Its Business Prospects
Linux 2.4 has arrived, and the technology is great. Its just too bad that technology alone doesnt make a success story.OK, Linux 2.4 can...
Storage, SMP Get Much Better in Linux
The Linux 2.4 kernel is the first kernel the enterprise helped build, and it shows. Driven by the demands of enterprise customers, enterprise applications...
Linux Becomes a Cog in Machinery
Komatsu mining systems Inc. builds mining equipment, such as dump trucks, tractors and excavators, but the IT managers in the companys engineering department didnt...
Popular Growth
Its beginning to look like 2001 is the year Linux gets down to business. Systems managers who used to ask how Linux crept in...
The State Of Linux
John Alberg, vice president of engineering at Employease Inc., is typical of many IT managers nursing budding relationships with the Linux operating system: He...
Torvalds Looks Beyond 2.4
As the linux world congregates this week in New York, the center of attention, as always, will be Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Resting up...
Back to Basics
Its time to turn back the clock at Corel. The embattled software company has a new survival plan: Surrender its forays into the Linux...