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Dec. 15, 2009
Global server sales down, but situation still looks ok
Overall, worldwide third-quarter sales of servers showed a steeper than 17 percent decline from the corresponding quarter last year, sagging to less than $10.42 billion, according to IDC's Global Quarterly Server Tracker. But surprisingly, and unexpectedly, server shipments actually improved, falling less than 18 percent for the quarter, compared with a more than 30 percent gain in the second quarter, noted the IDC report.

Sep. 24, 2009
ICANN in the hot water, again...
It appears that ICANN continues to irritate a lot of people and some are getting more and more worried. ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) CEO Rod Beckstrom responded to numerous concerns raised by members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee about the controversial new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains) via a detailed letter sent Tuesday. On Sep. 10, Republicans Lamar Smith and Howard Coble wrote a letter to Beckstrom asking him to clarify the plans for the new TLDs and the expiration of ICANN's Joint Project Agreement.

Sep. 15, 2009
Hijacked Linux botnet distribute malware to Windows PCs
A botnet of hijacked Linux servers is being used to distribute malicious software to Windows computers across the globe. According to an analysis by Internet application developer Denis Sinegubko, the compromised PCs all have one thing in common: the light weight Web server "nginx" is running on them and serving content through port 8080. Otherwise, these systems would appear to be totally inconspicuous and would seem to operate normally. These events were discovered when links to malware posted in China were replaced by dynamic DNS names from DynDNS.com and No-IP.com.

Aug. 25, 2009
Did i4i really win its case against Microsoft?
Microsoft recently found itself ordered by a U.S. Court to stop selling its current versions of Word, as well as to pay millions of dollars in fines, to i4i, a tiny Canadian company over an XML-related patent violation lawsuit. But the software giant now has both legal appeals and code-based workarounds to its software that could potentially prevent it from being damaged by the ruling. At least that is what Microsoft's team of expensive lawyers are hoping for.

Jul. 26, 2009
Microsoft releases Linux drivers for its Hyper-V server software
In a bold and unexpected move, the world's largest software maker says it has released a set of Linux drivers for its Hyper-V server software under the GPL version 2, not because of perceived obligations to that license but simply because it is the preferred license of the Linux community and would benefit both Microsoft customers and users of Linux, according to a Microsoft executive. Microsoft's director of platform strategy Sam Ramji said "Microsoft selected the GPLv2 license for the mutual benefit of our customers, partners, the community and of Microsoft itself."

Jul. 14, 2009
Microsoft further expands its many data center projects
Microsoft said it is planning to soon open a 700,000-square-foot data center in a Chicago suburb as soon as July 20, this after having opened a new 300,000 sq. foot facility in Dublin, Ireland on June 30. Microsoft's newly proposed Northlake, Illinois data center is scheduled to open next Monday, which will help support its Software + Services strategy and the new Bing search engine, as well as other online services.

Jul. 3, 2009
The London Stock Exchange moves to Linux
Last September, right at the very start of one of the biggest market meltdowns in history since the October 1929 crash, the London Stock Exchange's entire IT system brought the whole exchange to a complete standstill for almost a whole trading day. It was the first, and also the last time such an event would happen. Since December 2007, the London Stock Exchange had been using a Windows-based system called TradElect. There had been some problems and a few snags with TradElect, but it never had failed so miserably like it did on that terrible September day.

Jul. 3, 2009
Red Hat and Ubuntu offer new cloud certification program
Red Hat says it is launching a new cloud certification program, while Canonical, the commercial vendor behind Ubuntu Linux, is also launching paid support services for its cloud offerings. These two initiatives have the potential to help the Linux vendors generate revenues from the cloud as enterprise adoption of cloud technologies increase.

Jun. 10, 2009
Hosting company denies weak passwords led to gigantic hack attack
Russ Foster, director of U.K. Web hosting provider VA-Serv.com has fully denied public allegations that weak and insecure password management combined with loosely configured servers were responsible for a massive Internet attack that wiped out data for more than 100,000 Web sites in more than 23 countries. Foster also says that he was shocked when he learned that the CEO of an Indian software company hanged himself late last night, shortly after his software was determined to be the culprit of the security breach of the UK-based Web hosting firm.

May 4, 2009
FreeBSD launches the new 7.2 version of its Linux OS
The FreeBSD engineering team has released the new 7.2 version of its Linux operating system. This is the second release from the 7 series which improves on the features of FreeBSD 7.1. Users of earlier FreeBSD releases can also use FreeBSD Update to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from the ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x.

Apr. 21, 2009
Oracle has great plans for the Solaris operating system
During a conference call yesterday after his $7.4 billion acquisition deal was announced, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said one of the primary reasons Oracle is interested in Sun is because of its Solaris operating system, a widely distributed version of Unix that has a large installed base and has long been the dependable platform for Oracle's popular database.

Apr. 15, 2009
10% of computers still not patched against Conficker worm
In the last two weeks, there has been some movement by the Conficker worm. Conficker was supposed to attack Windows computers and laptops on April 1st. So far, that hasn't happened, but data gathered yesterday from enterprise users of Sophos' Endpoint Assessment Test reveals that about one in ten computers is still not adequately patched, leaving it widely vulnerable to a Conficker infection at any time.

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