IT Pundits Espouse Linux Benefits Including and Beyond TCO
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

For several years now, there has been a lot of mud slinging between the advocates of the Linux platforms and the advocates of the Windows platform. There is a lot of talk about total cost of ownership (TCO) differences between the platforms, and big companies with a lot at stake on both sides of the slinging (and some on both sides, ironically) expend a lot of effort and spend a lot of dough talking up Linux or Windows. The firm establishment of Linux as a viable and vibrant alternative to Unix and Windows has done nothing to change this. READ MORE >

Parallels Joins the PC and Server Virtualization Fray
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

As if the market for PC and server virtualization software is not already crowded enough, a new contender is entering the market. A startup company called Parallels launched last week, and although the company has a slightly different origin from the more established players in the market, its product lineup for workstations and servers will look somewhat familiar to those already acquainted with products from VMware, Microsoft, SWsoft, and the open source Xen project. READ MORE >

Sybase Launches Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 Database
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you are currently a customer of database maker Sybase and you are using its flagship Adaptive Server Enterprise 12 release, you might be wondering why Sybase last week announced ASE 15, the next release of its database. Did something go terribly wrong with ASE 13 and ASE 14 that the company never brought them to market? No. Don't get nervous. It is just that Sybase has been delivering commercial relational databases for so long that its release numbers are getting up into the unlucky numbers of 13 (in the West) and 14 (in the East), so like buildings that skip floor numbers, Sybase is calling the kicker to ASE 12 by the ASE 15 name. READ MORE >

Notes/Domino 7 Brings New Collaboration Technology, Performance Gains
by Dan Burger

Businesses have to grow, and usually with growth comes complexity, whether you are talking about business models, product lines, or customer needs. Complexity has become such a monkey-on-the-back issue that IBM and many of its biggest competitors in the groupware space have been focusing on reducing complexity with collaboration software. The release last week of IBM's Notes and Domino 7 represents the latest collaboration technology that Big Blue can apply to the complexity problem. READ MORE >

   But Wait, There's More

IBM, Red Hat Partner to Bring Linux Skills and Services to Big Blue's Partners . . . Teradata Picks SUSE for Linux Version of Its Data Warehousing Software . . . Dell Becomes Top Linux Server Shipper for the First Time . . . Turbolinux Creates New Partner Program . . . External Disk Market Continues to Grow, According to IDC . . . Exabyte Says VXA and LTO Are the Fastest-Growing Products in Its History . . . Oracle to Buy Siebel for $5.85 Billion . . . READ MORE >

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