openSUSE 11.1 is packed full of features, but a lack of QA and user acceptance testing in this release may cause Linux newbies to seek out other distributions, such as Ubuntu Ibex. I wanted to love openSUSE 11.1. I really

I knew it wouldn't be long until the Windows 7 FUD machine kicked off. The prize for the first such article goes to InfoWorld's Randall C. Kennedy and his "Windows 7 unmasked" piece. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

There's talk that Microsoft has signed off internally on the Beta 1 Windows 7 bits internally. Word is the build number of what goes out to testers will be 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400. What do all those digits mean? And when will testers

Oracle's second quarter was roughly in line with expectations as earnings excluding charges hit targets on lower than expected revenue. Meanwhile, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who picks on a competitor every quarter, said the company had "several recent wins over

What's most striking about this virtual tour of a Wintel data center circa 2002/3 is how far out of date it now seems - and, at the same time, how little has actually changed. by Paul Murphy

I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I'm surprised I've been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it's been an interesting year and

Just days after hearing about Verari Systems green leasing program, another similar initiative has been launched by server storage vendor Rackable Systems. Coincidence? I think not. The new Rackable Equipment Leasing Program covers a wide range of the company's services,

Guest post via TechRepublic's 10 things blog. OS X is heralded for its friendliness, but it falls short in many other respects. Find out why Linux is superior in everything from flexibility to portability to cost. It may sound strange,

The top technology vendors for 2008--as rated by customers--feature IBM, HP, Amazon Web Services, Apple and Research in Motion. Vendors that were panned include Sprint Nextel, SunGard, SAP and CA among others. Those are the takeaways from VendorRate, a Web-based

BI has become a killer application over the past few years, and we're now extending that beyond enterprise-class computing into cloud-class computing. The amount of data and content -- and the need for innovative analytics from across the Internet --

Microsoft officials recently peeled back the covers a bit on its datacenter futures by sharing some high-level strategy goals for its "Generation 4" modular datacenter plans. But this modularization is only one piece of the company's longer-term goals and plans

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Tough Love with openSUSE 11.1. Gallery right. Ed Bott: That Windows 7 bootleg is a ticking time bomb Mary Jo...

Bootleggers, beware. Judging by my inbox, lots of you downloaded a bootleg copy of Windows 7 build 6956 from BitTorrent, and now you have it running. But no matter how hard you try, you can't update its built-in copy of

Moving your infrastructure to Amazon Web Services--or any other cloud platform--sounds like a no-brainer in many respects. You can scale up or down as needed and pay only for the computing and storage you use. The big question, however, is

Is Palm a dead company walking or just one in a rough transition to a set of next generation products that will return the company to past glory? Palm CEO Ed Colligan clearly believes Palm is that latter. He argues

Trust in the reliability, availability, and security of services is the glue that holds SOA and Web oriented architecture together by Joe McKendrick

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Can you have Macworld without Jobs and Apple? We're going to find out Apple statement Techmeme Sam Diaz: What does Apple's

Throughout this year, various of my sources who like being cynical about these sorts of things proclaimed to me that if the economy went south, green technology spending would go south with it. Not so, I protested, going with my

This recycling of leadership with private industry is the real story. by Dana Blankenhorn