When Novell adopted linux, we all thought this was not going to last. But it seems that it is a (relative) success, as Novell has made Suse Linux grow up and they've accomplished selling it to...

SUN Microsystems is doing well. It has been troublesome for quite some time, after the rise of Linux which was more flexible from the beginning. Where SUN tried to gain ground by trying to convince...

France has just announced to triple the amount of 'public surveillance' cameras. I cannot help but wonder about the impact on their network and hardware that will have to support this extra...

Online communities are a typical product of Web 2.0. The internet has evolved into much more that just a place for computers to connect, it has become a place for people to meet. Years ago, the rise...

Skype, probably the biggest non-SIP voip provider in the world, violates GPLv2, the open source license. The software itself is fine, but one of the SMC phones they sell through their site runs linux....

Evolution is a process that takes many thousands of years. We, animals as well as plants, adapt slowly to the ever changing environment we live in, to fit better and maximising chances for survival....

Nokia is one of these companies of which you don't expect to move into another field but the cellphone business. But Nokia looks beyond it's horizon and expands into the Web world. Not so long...

Tomtom, the famous producer of gps navigation units, currently the biggest in Europe, has announced a bid of €1.8bn on Teleatlas, a creator of maps for use in electronic navigation devices. It's...

Nickelodeon is one of the bestknown producers of programs and shows for children - my little girl (3) loves the nickelodeon junior channel here in the Netherlands, and she's right. Some of the...

I have always wondered how people come to a choice like outlook and exchange when it comes to office e-mail, it is one of the least efficient, and most bulky overblown mailsolutions I have ever seen....

In the US, a company called Ooma offers a VOIP solution with free domestic calls for the rest of your life. You can obtain this by buying their phone (called the Hub, 399 USD), which connects to your...

I have written about virtualization before here, but I would like to take the discussion one step up. All hardware and software manufacturers treat virtualization as if it is the latest religion in IT...

Sunrocket is a VOIP provider, which means their main product is a telephone connection running over an IP network, which is in most cases, the internet. Sunrocket has closed it's doors.SunRocket...

Startups. A word that doesn't mean a thing to some, and means the world to others. The others are entrepeneurs, or investors. In order to have a startup, you need the right ingredients. And the...

IBM has never had the reputation of being open before, but in 2007, where SUN's Solaris is now known as OpenSolaris and can be downloaded for free, IBM has shown they did not get stuck in the...

Fujitsu Siemens Computers just started marketing a SAN that is intended for small businesses. The company calls it "My First SAN". Explaining the rationale behind the strategy, he said the...

In the old days, the data produced by customers was hardly ever more than what you could put inside a generic unix server, and in cases where it wasn't enough we could make use of disk cabinets...

About ten years ago, the term ITIL made a lot of people look very angry. Most sysadmins I knew saw it as an invader in there holy territory and refused to work by it's rigid rules, that seemed out...

eSnailer is a webservice that let's you send regular mail (aka snail mail) to anyone in the US using only your webbrowser. Why ? I am not sure, however I know there are cases where you simply need...