Google Fast Flip. First impressions… It’s a bit like reading a newspaper and needs more customization options. I would probably use it if it had google reader integration to find similar news of interest to me.
IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office 360,000 IBM workers have been told to stop using Microsoft Office and switch to the Open Office-based software Symphony. Aside from standalone use, there are lots of enterprise applications that use bits and pieces from Microsoft Office. I’ve always wondered why software vendors don’t use Open Office as a free [...]
I recently spent too much time troubleshooting sluggish Samba transfer speeds to find that GFS2 and Samba in Redhat 5.3 don’t get along too well without some special treatment. I should note that my GFS2 cluster is using Samba in a single-node configuration, that is to say, there is no concurrent access to files from [...]
Innovation Without Disruption: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Now Available Another solid release from Red Hat. I upgraded a NetBackup server today and it went exceptionally well.
Defections Batter Sun Microsystems Uncertainty about the future continues to plague Sun, and it should be noted that defections are quite common during acquisitions. Perhaps the most important defections are Sun customers who are being gobbled up by IBM in quick fashion.