Stories by: Paul Murphy

SCO alleges IBM improperly extended its licensed use of Unix Source code and related information to Linux. This is a big problem for IBM but of little importance to the general Linux community.

Does what Microsoft is doing with XML spell the end for open-source office applications in general and OpenOffice.org in particular?

The purpose of this article is to examine the long-term effects of the Unix vs. Windows decision with respect to the business needs of a hypothetical medium-size auditing and related services firm.

I once had a professor who claimed he decided to teach computer science because it was the only way he could get to play with the toys without having to deal with users. He's dead now, but every time I find myself in a preliminary project-specification meeting with the local management's nominated users, I get closer to agreeing with him. That's certainly what happened recently when I met with several groups of Nichievo's users, mainly from the sales and analyst communities.

Author Paul Murphy's A strategic comparison of Windows vs. Unix on making the Unix decision suggested that Unix is usually a smarter business choice than Windows. This article looks at what it takes to implement that knowledge in a small business.