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IT Management Linux News for Dec 03, 2002
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InfoWorld: Linux Future Scales Out (Dec 03, 2002, 23:30)
"As dominant systems and software companies continue to pour
millions into scaling Linux for the enterprise, some observers now
believe the open-source OS's future is to serve as a distributed,
network-based operating system..."
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The Register: Windows Costs Less than Linux. A Bit. Sometimes--MS Study (Dec 03, 2002, 20:30)
Another story on the IDC TCO study released Monday. It takes a
different angle than the eWeek story posted here earlier today:
"However, erm, correct us if we're wrong but we were under the
impression that obstinate corporate customers who hung onto their
Windows servers for a whole five years without upgrading were more
or less open source loving commies in the eyes of Redmond..."
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eWeek: Study Finds Windows Cheaper Than Linux (Dec 03, 2002, 17:00)
"A Microsoft-sponsored white paper from research group IDC,
which compares the total cost of ownership of Microsoft's Windows
2000 and Linux server environments across five enterprise computing
workload situations at 104 companies, found that the Windows 2000
server offered a lower five-year total cost in four of the five
selected workloads..."
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InformationWeek: Linux Is Launchpad For Boeing's Simulations (Dec 03, 2002, 16:00)
"Aerodynamics engineers with Boeing's Expendable Launch Systems
division in Huntington Beach, Calif., used a 96-node cluster of PCs
with Advanced Micro Devices 850-MHz Athlon processors running Red
Hat Linux, rather than a $500,000 supercomputer, to keep costs low
in pursuit of its goal..."
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eWeek: Liberty Alliance Waves White Flag at Passport (Dec 03, 2002, 14:30)
"Officials at the Liberty Alliance's founder and chief sponsor,
Sun Microsystems Inc., last week went so far as to concede defeat
to the Passport authentication service on the Windows
platform..."
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ITBusiness.ca: Don't Open Source, Don't Tell (Dec 03, 2002, 09:00)
"It's going to get dirty, this tit-for-tat exchange between
those lobbying for increased use of open source in government and a
coalition that calls itself the Initiative for Software Choice
(ISC)..."
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INQ7.net: Microsoft Philippines on Linux: Market Will Decide (Dec 03, 2002, 07:00)
"'We recognize that there has been a lot of hype around Linux,
which directly competes with Windows... In the end, the market has
the final say...'"
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