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What's most striking about this virtual tour of a Wintel data center circa 2002/3 is how far out of date it now seems - and, at the same time, how little has actually changed.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

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,

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

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...

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

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

With so many industries looking for their share of the bailout pie from the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program TARP, here's an idea: why not channel some of those hundreds of billions of dollars to the information technology sector? Think

Dave Linthicum just posted this very keen look at the business and manufacturing operations at the North Pole, wondering if service oriented architecture would increase efficiency and agility. I'm sure Santa Inc.'s operations go year round, but everything has to

The year ahead -- SOA economics, SOA clouds, and SOA data by Joe McKendrick

In reviewing my predictions for 2008 I find no room to doubt my own genius - at least in my head; "your mileage", as they say " may differ"... by Paul Murphy

Windows 7 has surpassed the 7000 build mark as it has been spotted at build 7004. This has concerned a few people in regards to build numbers, but all shall become clear. Don't worry; your applications are safe and non-hardware

The organizations driving two of the best known green product-labeling programs, the Green Electronics Council and EcoLogo, have teamed with the goal of helping to increase the number of products that are listed in EPEAT the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment

A few Linux distributions emphasize license freedom as a goal, but Tom "Spot" Callaway says that there's no such thing as a free Linux distro. Callaway, Fedora's engineering manager, writes that "you'd need to do an incredibly thorough audit of

Why is, say, a Georgia health bank so inherently trustworthy if all those records are transferrable to New Jersey? Aren't we really talking about a government records bank? Isn't that state control of records? by Dana Blankenhorn

What will emerge will be far more complex and nuanced than what was offered during the campaign. Whether it will pass, whether meaningful change will come, is still an open question as I write this. by Dana Blankenhorn