The GNOME project has released version 2.26 of its eponymous open source desktop environment for Linux. It adds support for MAPI to Evolution, the messaging client in GNOME, allowing it to work with all versions of Microsoft's Exchange Server. It also adds the ability to open Outlook mailbox (.pst) files.
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On the Fate of Solaris
If IBM does acquire SUN, and the rumors on the street suggest that it will, what will IBM do about Solaris? Let’s look at some of the options.
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Novell Offshores Some of Its SUSE Operations to East Asia
A YEAR AGO, Ron Hovsepian spoke about moving to the east. According to Reuters, he was bound to spend approximately $100 million on these moves. It obviously requires some great long-term savings to be able to reward him with a huge bonus [1, 2] despite a huge slump.
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IBM-Sun deal breaking down, report says
According to spokespeople for the two companies a report on Sunday evening in the Wall Street Journal, the much-rumored and never-admitted merger talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems appear to have hit an impasse.
No kidding. Huh.
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Microsoft and Novell (Almost Merged) versus IBM and Sun (to be Merged)
As IBM's acquisition of Sun Microsystems inches closer, Novell's role in harming Java and OpenOffice.org is revisited
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Good-bye Solaris? The fate of Sun's top 5 technologies
By this time next week, IBM will have bought Sun at a cut-rate price. I'd long thought Sun was going to down for the count, so the news that IBM was moving in didn't surprise me. What happens next though?
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Novell Downgraded
WITH abysmal results and no major deal since the last quarterly report, Novell is clearly headed nowhere, whereas Red Hat - by contrast - carries on growing, so it's a Novell issue, not a GNU/Linux issue.
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Is Linux Bad for the Economy?
I read a Newsweek* article titled, Stop Saving Now!, a cover story that actually encourages you, the consumer, to stop being so darn frugal and spend some money.
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Why Linux will Top Windows 7
The different mistakes Microsoft made that will make users shift to Linux
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Introducing pointy-haired bosses to FOSS
Mike Dailey tries to convince us gave me the impression that moving to Linux is an all-or-nothing proposal. That's plain ridiculous. An undertaking of that scale is a gigantic project, which no CIO will endorse. What you can do is introduce FOSS technology in the enterprise, step by step. Once it has proven itself you may take the next step.
Read more »Cloudera CEO: Hadoop, Open Source and the Cloud (Video)
But here’s the zillion-dollar question: Is Cloudera really the next hot open source start-up, perhaps a nascent XenSource (bought by Citrix for a gorgeous $500 million)? Or will it be just another fledgling rushing into the crowded cloud computing sector?
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Don’t Force Purity in Companies
A recent ComptuerWorld article argues that open-source-based companies are just not going to be able to make as much money as their commercial counterparts, and, thus, should open themselves up to supporting the open-source versions of their software, too. I disagree.
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Intel trades ownership for popularity on mobile Linux project
Intel is handing over its mobile Linux effort to the Linux Foundation to stimulate broader interest.
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Does Linux Need Hard Times To Succeed?
If Walmart is looking for another product to add to its Great Value range, perhaps it should look no further than Linux.
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Starting a new business, 5 reasons to avoid Microsoft now!
If you are a new online business owner, one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to not become a whore to Microsoft, their high cost, and their ludicrous licensing system.
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