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Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMware

Topix - Linux  Mon, 09/22/2008 - 10:24

In a move reminiscent of its "Get the Facts" anti-Linux campaign , Microsoft is waging war on VMware with a customer-focused Web site that provides the Redmondian spin on how its products stack up against the ...


 

Google ready to release mobile phone system

Topix - Linux  Fri, 08/29/2008 - 23:34

Google is prepping for the release of its Android mobile phone operating system by taking a page from Apple's playbook - and updating it.


 

VMware exec says Windows days are numbered (ComputerWorld)

LWN.net  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 08:01

Stephen J. Vaughan Nichols discusses Paul Harapin's predictions for the end of Windows.

"Seriously. In an ITWire tale, Paul Harapin, VMware's managing director for Australia and New Zealand said Windows is already being replaced by virtual appliances running on Linux.

In ten-years, there will be no more Windows. OK. I know people at Red Hat who would say that that's exactly what will happen.

That's right out of the new Red Hat KVM-based virtualization playbook. But, someone from VMware saying this?


 

Google could pick Git to manage Android code

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 05/23/2008 - 11:46

Releasing 8.6 million lines of source code and expecting open-source programmers to join Google in its development is a technological challenge.

But when Google does make its Android mobile phone software an open-source project later this year, it looks likely it will take a page from the Linux playbook and use a tool called Git to manage that