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Return on Investment PerspectivePenguin power is both cheap and costly Enterprises that are watching their wallets and longing to free themselves from being shackled to the products of established vendors are realizing the power of the penguin. It’s no secret that Linux is making inroads into corporate IT infrastructures at the expense of Unix products and Microsoft Windows Server. However recent research from Yankee Group finds that while Linux is a technological equal of its competitors it’s not superior to them. Yankee also found that a significant Linux deployment or complete switch from Windows in a large enterprise (at least 10 000 end users) would be three to four times more expensive and take three times as long to deploy as it would to upgrade to a new version of Windows. more > Open-Source Development: LinuxWorld roundup Attendance at last week's LinuxWorld Expo was on a par with the previous year's show (between 10 000 and 11 000 according to conference organizers) but the exhibit floor was busting at the seams. More than 190 vendors (around 55 more than last year) pitched their tents in San Francisco's Moscone Center to flog their latest Penguinesque offerings. more > Microsoft Rules Another Market With Small Biz Server—Report The Yankee Group says 86% of midsize and smaller companies use Small Business Server. Microsoft's Small Business Server is a remarkable hit said a research firm Monday as it released the results of a survey that claimed an astounding 86% of small and midsize businesses either use the server bundle or are planning to deploy it. more > SmartAdvice: Consider Hardware First In Figuring Linux Ownership Costs Hardware considerations can muddle the seemingly lower cost of Linux ownership The Advisory Council says. Also aspect-oriented programming needs to mature before it's ready for prime time; and use compliance standards to make sure IT processes are in place and your IT organization is adequately staffed. more > R&D Envy Amid today's cost-cutting obsession is there any room to experiment with new technologies? There is at these companies. Each year HIP Health Plan Of New York finds one or two of what chief technology officer Pedro Villalba calls golden nuggets in the company's IT sandbox. The first golden nugget extracted this year from the sandbox--as the company's research lab is known--is a tablet PC with customized software that's used by nurses to gather information about hospital patients so the health-insurance company's case managers can recommend the most cost-effective treatments more > Defection: Microsoft Proponent Moves To Linux 'Suppose I upgrade to Windows 2003 and Windows XP. What would I be able to do then that I can't do with my current boxes? Nothing. I don't need all of the collaborative features ' Hentzen says. Since its inception more than a decade ago Linux has held a special appeal for small businesses because of its low startup cost kernel stability and communal approach to problem solving. It was so attractive that Whil Hentzen an eight-time recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Programmer Award has for the past two years been converting most of his company's Windows systems to open source more > Linux Going Mainstream When United Parcel Service Inc. first tried Linux three years ago the delivery company ran the open-source operating system for four months on a virtual machine within its mainframe. The test pitted CPU- and input/output-intensive applications on Linux against similar ones on a Unix server. Linux came up short on performance and added a layer of complexity that was discouraging. UPS decided the operating system wasn't ready for the demands of its data-center environment and IBM which had prodded UPS into doing the test agreed more > Study: Small And Midsize Companies Will Lead IT Spending A new Forrester Research report says smaller businesses will increase their IT spending by 6.6% this year as opposed to 1.7% for larger companies. more > Zone Labs Updates Security Enforcer For Guest Access The update includes checks for spyware worms Trojan horses key loggers and other malicious code lurking on guest systems. Zone Labs on Monday rolled out an update to its Integrity Clientless Security solution that blocks non-IT controlled PCs--such as those owned by partners and used by mobile workers--from accessing a company network without having proper security provisions in place more > Survey: Moving From Windows To Linux Isn't Cheap For years Linux advocates have touted the open-source operating system as a less-expensive more-reliable alternative to Unix and Windows running on x86-based or industry-standard servers. Not so fast says the Yankee Group. more > HP And Novell Join Forces To Put Linux On The Desktop Hewlett-Packard and Novell disclosed a partnership on Wednesday that will bring SuSE's open-source Linux operating system to select HP desktop and laptop systems in the second half of 2004. Touting the new effort as the first play by a major technology vendor to offer Linux from the desktop to the data center Martin Fink HP's VP for Linux said the move comes at the urging of its largest business customers who want to deploy a single operating system a single distribution of Linux from top to bottom. more > Popularity Growing For Open-Source Databases Database systems built from open-source code are gaining in capabilities and enjoying rapid adoption by early users of new technology on IT staffs. The trend indicates that open-source databases will move from the intellectual curiosity of 2003 to widespread mainstream use by 2006 a major analyst firm says in a recent report. more > Sabre Rebuilds on the Fly It was about 10 years ago when executives at Sabre Holdings Corp. decided they needed to start thinking about moving their online travel business off their existing proprietary mainframes and onto a new platform. more > Rules of the Road Most companies will spend more on IT to comply with regulations than last year according to a new InformationWeek Research survey. Can they wring any business value from it? BellSouth Corp. knows how to work in a regulated environment having had the government involved in its telecom business since its earliest days. Nevertheless meeting the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has added business-technology costs in part because the IT department supports a group of auditors who review internal financial controls for compliance. articleID=15201268 more > The real cost of switching to Linux The jury is in. After years of experimentation with Linux in the enterprise customers analysts and vendors are starting to sing a consistent tune about where Linux makes financial sense and where it doesn’t. Although Linux is often thought of as a free alternative to established OSes such as Windows and proprietary Unix is it really cheaper when you add the costs of acquisition migration operation and support? In other words is the TCO (total cost of ownership) of Linux really lower than that of Unix or Windows? more > Experts offer Linux migration pointers Experts are urging enterprise IT shops to develop strategies for moving back-end systems like databases to Linux while paying close attention to advances in Linux on the desktop. If an enterprise’s IT organization doesn’t have migration virtualization security and networking on its Linux to-do list today it will be eating a competitor’s dust tomorrow said experts polled by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com. Ken Milberg a SearchEnterpriseLinux.com site expert said companies should start focusing on migrating database servers from Unix or Windows to Linux in addition to considering how they can use Linux on the desktop. more > |
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