That's the question on everyone's mind at this year's JavaOne developer conference, the last show before Oracle's planned US$7.4 billion …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
Year after year, breathless pundits announce that the open source OS is on the verge of a tipping point, a …
VMware to buy $20 million stake in Terremark
VMware is buying a 5 percent stake in Terremark, a close partner that provides collocation and managed infrastructure services using …
Vista launch best argument for Linux says IBM exec
It's the law of unintended consequences. Microsoft's launch Vista was the best recruiter for Linux on the desktop according to …
Ballmer sees IT opportunities in economic recovery
Growth will have to come from higher productivity and innovation when the economy begins to recover, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer …
Android someday will outdistance the iPhone
The number of mobile phones using the Android operating system will eventually be huge, even if the number of Android …
IBM eyes the future of virtualization
The future of technology always has roots in the past. And the past is indeed long in the case of …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
It's time we faced it: The Year of the Linux Desktop, long foretold, isn't coming. Year after year, breathless pundits …
AMD launches energy-efficient Shanghai Opteron EE
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker AMD Inc. on Wednesday — the sixth anniversary of the birth of its Opteron processor — …
Seven burning security questions
There's no shortage of burning questions about IT security these days, some sparked by nasty threats, others by economic concerns …
VMware to embed RSA security into vSphere 4
VMware and RSA announced a strategic plan to embed RSA’s data-loss prevention (DLP) and encryption technologies into VMware’s new vSphere …
Fiber cuts slash Silicon Valley’s Internet arteries
Cuts in fiber-optic lines early Thursday at two locations near Silicon Valley shut down two IBM facilities and affected an …
Analysis: Where did Sun go wrong?
Just before the crash of the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems Inc., then-CEO Scott McNealy …
What’s on tap from EMC, VMware?
EMC is promising a look at the “virtual data center of the future” in an announcement scheduled for Tuesday. EMC …
Raising the bar
In 2001, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches were introduced, the average per-port cost was $39,000, according to IDC. Today, a …
Google plans fifth birthday present for Gmail users
Google will announce the next step in Gmail's evolution, a new product with “a European multilingual angle,” on Monday. At …
Top 10 technology skills
Amid the worst job market in 25 years, IT is holding steady. Most CIOs are maintaining their current staffing levels; …
Sun chief forges ahead as IBM rumors swirl
In a speech on Wednesday, the CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc. ignored the rumors that the company may be sold …
Slacker databases break all the old rules
So you've got some data to store. In the past, the answer was simple: Hook up an official database, pour …
Microsoft won’t let companies run Azure on their own systems
Microsoft Corp. said this week that it has no plans — at least for now — to let businesses run …