Predictably, my post from last Friday dealing with the readiness of some open-source advocates to take the hard road to solving common proble...

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To be honest, the Vista price cuts Microsoft announced today don't mean a thing to you, the CIO. They affect retail box copies only, not the...

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While Microsoft and other agencies have been busy reaching out into the virtual machine infrastructure and management sector, VMware has qu...

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To date, the only serious options for managing large-scale, spread-out Virtual Machine infrastructures has been to either roll your own manageme...

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I'm sure if you've been reading this blog long enough you have had a chance to hear some of my tired anecdotes about the idiocy of ...

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As most of you probably know, for a variety of reasons the planned phase-out of Windows XP from Microsoft's distribution channels was pushed back...

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In a word: support. I went into this issue in more detail, and with earlier versions of Apple software, a few months ago. But the rash of blue screen (not a t...

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I'd have to search through the archives to be sure, but I doubt that Apple has ever been discussed much in this blog... there's always ...

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Citrix's recent acquisition of virtualization software company XenSource is finally bearing fruit for the company. Monday, the company announced the ...

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This topic has some direct bearing on another recent post, the one regarding the future of Microsoft, but it's really its own story, which ...

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