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Technology
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The Future of IT
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In the here and now, the domestic US information technology industry is in trouble. Sales aren't as brisk as they once were, and the employment market is in the toilet. There are moments of optimism here and there, but when you turn back around you always find a dozen IT industry professionals out of work and wondering where the industry went. |
19 Jul 2005 by Chad Perrin
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Bad Influence
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We live in a world where the reprehensible and cowardly practice of corporate success by way of sowing dissent and terror in the hearts of competitors has become a time-honored tradition. Monolithic, homogenized corporate structure lends itself to absorbing the competition like some kind of tremendous, ravenous amoeba. The merger of AOL and Time/Warner into the frighteningly pervasive media conglomerate it is and the emergence of Microsoft's domineering, tyrannical approach to the software industry exemplify the business model of the unscrupulous financial giants of our time. The SCO Group has learned well from these role models, and done them one better. |
18 Jun 2004 by Chad Perrin
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To the Victors Go the Spoils
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They say "to the victors go the spoils of war." Along with that goes the adage that the victors also write the history books. Well, this battle is for your desktop and server space, and the nine hundred pound gorilla known as Microsoft has already claimed victory despite the fact it is steadily, though slowly, losing market share to alternate operating systems such as Linux and other *nix variants. The books they are rewriting are not history books, however — at least not world history. |
14 May 2004 by Charles Sage
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Desktop Unready
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It's likely that Microsoft fears the pack of GNU/Linux distributions nipping at its heels in the market. An ever-increasing share of the webserver market is moving to Linux, which has proven itself to be perhaps the superior platform for most web services. As server operating systems go, Linux-based systems are simple to implement and maintain in very carefully customized configurations, and it will outperform most of its competitors even while running on inferior — read "cheap" — hardware. The increasing threat that Linux will begin to take a share of the home desktop market as well could also be making Microsoft executives nervous. |
14 May 2004 by Chad Perrin
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All the World's a Stagecoach Heist
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Knoppix is a popular "Live CD" distribution of a Linux-based operating system. Anyone visiting the Knoppix website these days (english: http://www.knoppix.com) will find that the first content on the site is not about their product at all. It is, instead, an exhortation to their fans, customers, and other site visitors to oppose a measure in deliberation by governing bodies of the European Union. |
08 May 2004 by Chad Perrin
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Microsoft: Determining Your IT Policy
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So you've decided to upgrade both your hardware and software, but your smart IT manager mentions that security (as well as price) needs to be a prime concern since the new infrastructure is going to be storing lots of sensitive, and possibly confidential, information. If you're like most other managers, you probably first think of Microsoft, even though your IT manager made sure to make a point about how important security is. After all, newer MS products have firewalls built in, as well as browser, messenger, and a few other apps. What could go wrong that Microsoft can't take care of? If your IT manager is as smart as he started out sounding, he'll let you know that a lot can go wrong. . . . |
21 Jan 2004 by Charles Sage
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