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Unscrupulous competitors have convinced many businesses that Linux comes up short on scalability, according to SearchEnterpriseLinux.com's resident Linux experts. In this interview, they set the record straight and offer straight... More...

Packard Co. has donated its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community to simplify administration of large Linux file systems and improve performance and scalability. AdvFS will also enable administrators to... More...
a $3 billion lawsuit again Big Blue, alleging it illegally contributed SCO Unix code to Linux -- a claim IBM denies. SCO has also threatened to sue companies that deploy Linux unless they pay a license fee for SCO's Unix product.

Messman shrugged off the idea of the... More...

at the possibility going to Linux on the desktop."

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of Red Hat 9 support kills the cost advantage that has been pulling many businesses to Linux, IT pros said. "With Red Hat's move and cost structure, an enterprise is in a similar price point with Sun and Microsoft, and becomes locked into the Red Hat subscription... More...
could either crash or enable remote code execution. Experts urge administrators to treat this serious vulnerability as if there were a working exploit, and they suggest that users upgrade vulnerable systems to OpenSSH 3.7 and 3.7p1, which are available... More...
the Samba Team of not having a sense of humor.

IT administrators need just one command to execute the key feature of the latest Samba upgrade, version 3.0, which enables seamless migration of a Windows NT 4.0 domain to Samba. Imagine the glee of an admin keying in... More...

Solaris, particularly if it's on older SPARC gear, you may be under pressure to switch to Linux on "industry standard" hardware. Here's why you should resist that pressure and what you should do instead.

Listen carefully to what you're being told, and you'll notice that... More...

source SuSE Linux -- success means that users will have a greater choice when it comes to Linux vendors.

For Sun -- a company that has opened up all of its source code and is now focusing on providing support for its flagship Solaris operating system -- success means... More...

real truth about Linux – that I wrote it! -- than a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies try to horn in on the action. It's a good thing I didn't spill the beans about time-traveling back to invent the wheel.

I'm sharing the contents of my mailbag with trepidation, but it's... More...

company has set up an alternate site.

SCO has removed its homepage, www.sco.com, from DNS to eliminate the associated traffic generated by the attack. DNS servers correlate domain names with the underlying numeric IP address of Web sites. Users who try to... More...

are even open source contributors. It is in their best interest to follow and adjust to Linux and open source. It is also their fiduciary responsible to understand the competition," Poeta said.

However, if Microsoft is sincere with the Port 25 effort, Poeta... More...

times increase by an order of magnitude every year or two," Rubinow said. "You have to make sure that every customer's order is processed fast enough…because if our response is sluggish, customers can switch easily. So we have to be good all the time... More...

BOSTON -- Enterprises are increasingly choosing to invest in Linux over Windows because of cost considerations and dissatisfaction with licensing policies. But Microsoft may have some plans in store to slow the advance of open... More...

The product, Likewise Identity 3.0, extends Active Directory features and tools to Linux servers, including a Group Policy feature that provides centralized management of all the computers and users in the Active Directory environment.

When an... More...

When Solaris Containers for Linux Applications is released into the source code with Update 4 on Aug. 27, Sun customers will be able to run unmodified Linux binaries made for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL... More...
Novell today announced that its flagship operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, would be on the receiving end of a spate of virtual machine drivers "sometime in July."

Novell Inc.'s Holger Dyroff, vice president of SUSE Linux... More...

Looking for the next step in moving more enterprise applications to Linux? Then, step lively and implement Linux-friendly and/or open source application servers, said Terence Sherlock, Hewlett-Packard strategic technical director. He... More...

who support the open source community, as it represents a major vendor's attempt to bring Linux-based services and features to older Microsoft customers.

Open-Xchange Server, the engine behind Novell's SuSE Linux Openexchange Server, is a modular... More...

available Linux distribution, Gillen said. The main contributors for changing over to Linux will be price and concerns about Microsoft's licensing practices, he added.

"The validation process has been a rising tide at Microsoft; they have been slowly plugging... More...

Per Second]," he said. "Most cluster [experts] know now that users are fortunate to get more than 8% of the peak performance in sustained performance."

Linux clusters do have a place. "For applications that require low performance, they are a cheaper... More...

One of the many features Red Hat Inc. is pushing to the forefront of its impending Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) release is better integration with Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, an implementation of... More...

source these things, it typically gets the thumbs down.

As for how Vista compares to Linux, it largely depends on what you need an operating system for. If you are looking to run a database, create an application, run a server, create artwork, develop Web... More...

the face and fortunes of enterprise computing and Linux clusters, according to Donald Becker, co-founder of the Beowulf Project, which develops scalable, open source Linux clustering software. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses the... More...
in 13 of 16 tests and, in several trials, beat Windows by nearly 10% .

"It's always nice to do well," said Red Hat Marketing Manager Nick Carr. "But I'd expect a certain amount of leapfrogging. That's the nature of rapid development."

The independent testers agreed... More...

SUSE White Papers
The Pursuit of a Standardized Solution for Secure Enterprise RBAC by BeyondTrust Corporation
the basic RBAC implementations of Sun, HP and the Linux community, provides an all-encompassing solution to privileged access control on Unix and Linux platforms.

Each RBAC implementation varies in its capabilities and method of management. In a multi-platform environment, these...
Using Microsoft Active Directory to Address Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard Requirements in Heterogeneous Environments by Centrify Corporation
to address specific PCI DSS requirements.

The Security Standards Council of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) owns and maintains the Data Security Standard (DSS), which is a rigorous set of requirements that all merchants, payment processors, point-of-sale vendors, and financial...
7 Things Every System Administrator Should Know about OpenSSH by Global Knowledge
is installed by default on most modern BSD and Linux-based operating systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.

OpenSSH is an open-source implementation of the SSH (Secure SHell) protocols, originally developed in 1995 by Tatu Ylonen. SSH-based tools provide secure...
Linux Security Corner
7 Things Every System Administrator Should Know about OpenSSH by Global Knowledge
developed as part of the OpenBSD project and is installed by default on most modern BSD and Linux-based operating systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.

OpenSSH is an open-source implementation of the SSH (Secure SHell) protocols, originally...
Constructing a Successful Security-Enabled Mobile Deployment by BlackBerry
IT must now support and secure these mobile devices. Read this whitepaper to find out the unique security requirements that these mobile devices create and the three components of mobile security protection.

Mobility has fast become a critical part of an enterprise's...
Datacenter Virtualization: Enabling a Dynamic Datacenter with Microsoft Virtualization by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
is a key technology to help datacenters move through those stages, reduce cost, increase security and availability, and enable more agile business.

This paper provides concrete scenarios showing how virtualization can enable server consolidation and business...