Monthly Archives: November 2003
The Linux Enterprise
Corporate acquisitions dont always result in increased customer choice. Often, its the opposite. However, Novells recent acquisition of SuSE should broaden choice among enterprise...
Red Hats Desktop Linux Isnt Going Away
The death of Red Hat Inc.s desktop Linux ambitions has been greatly exaggerated.When Red Hat sent customers an e-mail with updates on the fast-approaching,...
Novells Linux Strategy Good News for IT
Novell Inc.s announcement earlier this month of its planned purchase of No. 2 enterprise Linux distributor SuSE Linux AG marks the most recent and...
Gateway Puts On Its Game Face
Gateway Inc. is in reinvention mode—still. The fact is, it hasnt been out of that mode for the past three years. Thats when the...
Lucky 70s
The retro Ragamuffin was grooving to an Engelbert Humperdinck CD and sipping a bottle of Mateus as he checked e-mail from his pad. A...
Disk Backup Goes Modular
A unique approach to disk-based backup will debut next week from startup ExaGrid Systems Inc., with a modular twist, officials said.Many vendors sell disk...
New Backup, Replication Tools Promise More Protection
A fresh round of storage tools for data backup and replication will debut this week from three midsize ISVs.St. Bernard Software Inc. and BEI...
ILM: Shape of Future Storage?
There was a feeling of optimism in the air at the StorageTek Forum, held last month in San Diego, fueled by the direction the...
Quest Integrates Diagnostics Tools
Quest Software Inc. is set to launch the first of its new application performance management tools that integrate several existing tools for Oracle Corp....
Software Activation Still a Bad Idea
Hey, software vendors, would you like to keep your customers happy and encourage new sales? Heres how: Dont put activation in your products, and...