Previews

VMware Makes Move for Server with Two New Products
VMware is bringing its multiple-OS technology to the server field with two new products designed for corporate servers, ISPs, and the enterprise. With them, corporate managers will be able to run multiple operating systems--like Linux and Windows 2000--simultaneously on one Intel-based server.
Kevin Reichard reports.
Tuesday, December 5, 2000 06:24:06 AM EST

CRYPTOCard Introduces Key Fob and Palm Tokens with CRYPTOAdmin 4.1
CRYPTOAdmin adds speed and capabilities for administrators and allows developers to build "pop-up" software tokens onto Web pages and VPN connections. The software, along with RADIUS support and a few tokens, is free for Linux users.
Monday, November 22, 1999 03:52:03 PM EST

Reports

Openbravo's ERP Draws International Cheers
With open-source ERP deployments now starting to take more hold, Spanish-based Openbravo is quickly gaining international penetration, garnering as many as 20,000 downloads a month of its Web-based software from all over the world.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 01:31:45 PM EST

Linux Rising in Financial Firms; But Some Users Wonder Why
Among early adopters of Linux, Wall Street looms as tall as its skycrapers. But why are some financial services firms starting to take giant steps into Linux, and what stands in the way of even bigger penetration? Jacqueline Emigh files this report from this week's Linux on Wall Street show in New York City.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 09:15:14 AM EST

Big Vendors Leap To More Linux In Retail Stores
Although Microsoft is becoming an increasingly formidable rival in the same space, IBM, Sun, Oracle, and many other vendors are now responding to renewed opportunities for Linux in department store environments, as retail chains like Circuit City, Pep Boys, and Urban Outfitters start to step to 100-percent Linux deployments on their store-level IT systems. Jacqueline Emigh reports from this year's National Retail Federation show.
Thursday, January 26, 2006 09:53:49 AM EST

Oracle on Linux Gets One Firm Great E-Commerce Seats
As what is known as a "secondary ticketer," StubHub.com specializes in helping its customers to get good deals on sporting events, concerts, and live theater. But from the perspective of Shawn Kernes, VP of technology, StubHub itself is now getting great value out of running the company's Oracle database on Linux.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:42:12 AM EST

Verano's Industrial Defender Does Just That
So, what's keeping the bad guys out of the computer systems that run a huge metropolitan water works? Or, how would a plant manager know if someone had broken into his multi-megawatt power plant's network? What would happen if a virus got into their plant's networks and took out all of their MS boxes for a few hours? These are questions that security company Verano is answering with Linux-based technology.
Monday, June 21, 2004 11:17:28 AM EST

Linux Is Sometimes a Pleasant Surprise
Sometimes companies aren't actively seeking Linux for the solution to their problems; sometimes Linux just happens to be the best solution for their needs. One NY-based sporting goods chain found itself in this position recently, and they are so far pretty impressed with the benefits of the unsought platform.
Monday, October 20, 2003 11:44:49 AM EST

Tux Makes Orbitz Fly High
It is perhaps one of the most commercially-oriented ventures on the Internet today: a travel Web site run by a consortium of airlines. You can't get more corporate-minded than that. So what is Orbitz doing when working directly with the open source community for support issues on its massive search engines? Enjoying one of the many benefits of Linux, that's what.
Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:13:16 AM EST

PGA Tour Is On Par With Linux
The PGA is probably more well-known for Tiger Woods, mulligans, and the occasional hole-in-one rather than for IT systems. But the real-time demands of an information-hungry audience has brought PGA Tour organizers driving down the information age fairway. And guess which flightless fowl is holding the No. 3 Wood?
Monday, June 9, 2003 12:25:19 PM EST

Dell Feels Linux Customer Demand
In rolling out low-cost, Oracle-based server clusters on Wednesday, Dell CEO Michael Dell mentioned Linux and Windows as "standards" in almost the same breath. At the same press conference in New York City, though, members of a Dell customer panel indicated that momentum for Linux could be starting to outweigh attachment to Windows and other OS among Dell's customer base. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Thursday, April 3, 2003 11:57:40 AM EST

Tolerating Fault in an Intolerant World
In the world of clustered computers, you have your high-performance machines and your high-availability machines. But while clustering is a great way of getting HPC for not too much cost, it may not be the only solution for HA computing. A very hardened and redundancy laden Linux server from NEC has the capability of performing in the HA arena--and at a price point that won't blow the IT budget.
Monday, December 23, 2002 09:49:05 AM EST

Amazon.com Tests Oracle On Linux, But Windows Is Possible
Amazon.com has begun testing the Oracle database, operating on Red Hat Linux, as a possible platform for its behemoth data center, a top official confirmed this week. The online bookseller, though, is not excluding Windows solutions from the running either. Jacqueline Emigh continues her look at the progress Linux is making with one of the world's largest on-line retailers.
Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:49:32 AM EST

Amazon.com To Don Red Hat Data Center
Amazon.com has been a prominent user of Linux for quite some time, having implemented the platform for it's application and middle tiers. Now Amazon.com plans to "go for the 'full Monty' in the data center" and implement an Oracle on Red Hat solution there. And the benefits are already estimated to be enormous. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:37:37 AM EST

Akamai CEO Swings His Elbows
It's not that you wouldn't want to meet George Conrades, the chairman and CEO of Akamai Technologies in a dark alley. It's more that you'd want to avoid him in an open playing field. Meet the man who is using Linux to distribute data around the globe.
Tuesday, January 11, 2000 09:57:51 AM EST

Implementing E-Commerce on Your Linux System
Looking to implement e-commerce on your Linux server? With these three open-source e-commerce tools--TallyMan, Yams, and OpenMerchant--Linux stands a good chance of becoming the dominant e-commerce OS. We look at all three of these Perl-based packages, currently available in alpha and beta.
Monday, December 20, 1999 06:49:10 PM EST

Application Servers and Linux: The Enterprise Awaits
Application servers were once solely deployed in the world of big iron. But as Linux penetrates the enterprise, app-server vendors are finding that supporting Linux makes good business sense.
Sunday, October 31, 1999 02:28:47 PM EST

Reviews

Linux at the (Server)Beach
An ISP running Linux is no big surprise these days. But how such an ISP, particularly one as popular as ServerBeach uses Linux now and in the future may be of interest. How they feel about Linux and Microsoft may also be an education in itself.
Wednesday, June 11, 2003 04:12:04 PM EST

Linux Makes Automation, Infrastructure Strides
The daunting task of managing large utility companies' physical assets and automating complex manufacturing was one the domain of commercial UNIX. Now one company is switching over their supervisory and control software to the Linux platform--and the customers are benefiting right from the get go.
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 08:32:20 AM EST

NuSphere MySQL: Free Beer in a Tall Glass
The question with NuSphere MySQL isn't whether the proven LAMP suite of tools is any good. Most open source enthusiasts accept that it is. The question is whether the free beer NuSphere presents in a tall glass with their product is worth the price of admission if you're already happy putting together a database-driven site on your own. Scott Courtney takes a look at the retail release of an open source favorite.
Monday, April 16, 2001 08:30:06 AM EST

The Zope Application Server Revisited
Who says that reviews must be written in stone? After our original review of Zope, an open-source application server built in Python, we received feedback from readers and the developers of Zope. Read our reevaluation of Zope, as well as a response from Paul Everitt of Digital Creations.
Friday, January 7, 2000 08:31:26 AM EST

Extending Java with BEA WebLogic for Linux
No application server on the market supports Java better than BEA Systems' WebLogic Server, what with support for Java Server Pages (JSP), Java Messaging Services and Enterprise JavaBeans. It goes above and beyond most of its competitors in terms of Java-oriented features and reliability—particularly in areas of great importance to enterprises. We review the Linux version.
Tuesday, December 21, 1999 11:51:59 AM EST

Sun-Netscape Alliance to Release Server Based on J2EE
The Sun-Netscape Alliance today unveiled its iPlanet Application Server 6.0 software, an application server that will provide a development platform based on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard.
Monday, December 6, 1999 02:15:44 PM EST