• Linux Migrations

    August 10, 2009

    IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing Inna Kuznetsova, Director, Linux Strategy, led the meeting attended by IT analysts and painted a telling picture of what IBM’s Linux business has been in recent months: in short, strong and growing. To give an idea of this strength, Kuznetsova reported that in the past three years, over [...]

  • The Value of Linux Job Skills Rises 50%

    August 7, 2009

    Amanda McPherson reports on a recent Foote Partners’ survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. and Canadian employers. Last week, Datamation published an article on the rise in value of Linux job skills in today’s economy. Linux system administration skills are now the number 2 hottest IT job skill. In the last year, the value of Linux [...]

  • The Link Economy

    August 6, 2009

    Why I believe in the link economy – Chris Ahearn, President, Media at Thomson Reuters Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works. The [...]

  • Paying For News

    August 5, 2009

    Business Spectator: Media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape. I predict this will quickly increase the interest in alternative “news” sources.

  • Microsoft Acknowledges Linux Threat

    August 5, 2009

    PC World reports: Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional coverage by TechFlash