Stories about: Allegiance

A new generation of mobile Web browsers is finally making the Web a reality on handheld devices.

I chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was me against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and Novell.

Ubuntu Linux's next release will appear on Thursday, sporting fresh virtualization features and installation management tools, project sponsor Canonical said on Monday.

At Interop this month, we heard keynotes from two network vendors who are not only archrivals in a business sense but also in their approach to the market. Cisco represents market power, account control. Juniper represents open standards. Who will win, and will the market win with them?

Projects are under way at Sun pertaining to virtual machines and parallelism, Sun officials noted during the JavaOne conference on Thursday morning.

I've been preparing my Sony Vaio for an extended tour of duty at my girlfriend's new home. To make it as familiar and easy to use as possible for her, I decided to make it a dual-boot system. That way she can run Windows if she wants, and Linux awaits when I inflict her with my presence. It turned out to be a great opportunity to compare the installations of a popular Windows release with the latest from Red Hat. I kept copious notes as evidence.

I've been preparing my Sony Vaio for an extended tour of duty at my girlfriend's new home. To make it as familiar and easy to use as possible for her, I decided to make it a dual-boot system. That way she can run Windows if she wants, and Linux awaits when I inflict her with my presence. It turned out to be a great opportunity to compare the installations of a popular Windows release with the latest from Red Hat.

A few installation kinks aside, IBM's DB2 Universal Database for Linux impresses with its superior ease of use, stability and variety of tools. Now that it is in the Linux environment, is IBM set to again build up its stronghold on the database industry?