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Redmond Channel Partner Online reported Wednesday that IT administrators are more frequently snubbing Windows Vista than they did six months ago. Moreover, some who responded to a recent KACE-sponsored survey said they are considering alternatives like Apple’s Mac OS X or Linux. A few may even give their employees a choice in operating systems.
The most […]

More news out of OSCON this week: Sun Microsystems is offering its own twist on the LAMP stack.
InfoWorld reports Sun showed off its Web Stack on Tuesday. As its name indicates, the stack includes technology used to run Web sites and Web applications. It is based on the AMP portion of the LAMP stack (Linux, […]

Last month, I wrote about Nokia’s decision to open source the Symbian mobile platform, and I speculated that the decision was motivated in large part by Nokia’s desire to better compete with the likes of Google’s Android and the Linux Mobile Foundation.
Nokia strategy VP John Forsyth told O’Reilly Open Source Convention attendees that the main […]

The latest on the Apple-Psystar fight I told you about Tuesday: In addition to filing a trademark infringement lawsuit against the company that was shipping the Mac OS Leopard operating system pre-installed on non-Apple hardware, Apple has asked the court to require Psystar to stop selling the clones and to recall those it has already […]

The story of Psystar’s blatant disregard for Apple’s EULA, which prohibits the installation of Apple software on any hardware other than that manufactured by Apple, went on for days.
First, the Florida-based startup’s Web site buckled with the influx of customer traffic following the Mac clone’s launch. Then there were questions regarding the company’s legitimacy. (One […]