All Your IT Dollars Are Belong to Microsoft
by Alex Woodie

Call it the evil empire, the Beast, or an unrequited monopolist if you like. But whatever you do, please don't call Microsoft irrelevant, because it's becoming increasingly clear that the software giant, despite its flaws and questionable ventures, is making serious inroads at becoming the dominant IT supplier to businesses, recent survey numbers show. READ MORE >

Microsoft-Novell Deal Has Escape Clause
by Alex Woodie

Microsoft may stop distributing coupons for SuSE Linux if certain changes to the GPL v3 are put into action, Novell disclosed in a regulatory filing late last week. The revelation is the latest twist in the ongoing struggle between backers of the open source Linux operating system and Microsoft, the largest developer of proprietary software. READ MORE >

Virtualization, Consolidation Drive Server Sales in Q1
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The massive churning in the server business continued apace in the first quarter, according to market statistics released by both IDC and Gartner. While neither company ever agrees down to the second significant digit when it comes to revenue market share in the server space, the analysts at IDC and Gartner agree that the virtualization of servers is driving the sale of more expensive boxes and server consolidation is pushing lots of new iron into data centers and, presumably, lots more older iron out. READ MORE >

As I See It: Operating on Overload
by Victor Rozek

If the name Conrad Gesner is unfamiliar, it's probably because you're either not a librarian or weren't around in the 16th century when Gesner walked the earth. Born in Switzerland, Gesner was a naturalist and a scholar, but he is known to librarians as the creator of the bibliography. And what an ambitious accomplishment it was! Known as the Bibliotheca universalis, it was written in three languages--Greek, Latin, and Hebrew--and it listed all of the writers who had ever lived and the titles of all their works. READ MORE >