Robert McMillan Archive
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Retail systems are a strange lot of machines that include everything from fast food cash registers, to in-store servers, to mainframes. While UNIX, Windows, and DOS have traditionally powered your local department or hardware store, there's more than a handful of companies turning to the Penguin to cash-in on the many benefits of Linux. Cha-ching!
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Here's our exclusive interview with the co-creator of the world's leading open source database.
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2003 will be marked by the emergence of three new enterprise desktop offerings. Corporations seem interested, especially with Microsoft boosting prices. So, once again, we ask: Is this the year of the Linux desktop?
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The highly-competitive financial industry has a history of adopting IT trends ahead of the curve. The Street's forecast for Linux? A strong buy.
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PCs that incorporate Palladium, Microsoft's design for a trusted computer, would provide a wide variety of desireable security features. But the consequences of realizing Palladium, whether intentional or not, threaten the viability and future of Open Source software.
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He may be benevolent and he may be delegating more work, but the Linux kernel remains Linus's project.
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Larry Ellison is a man with many opinions and interests. But if there's one thing he's focused on right now, it's forging "Unbreakable" alliances within the Linux community.
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Tying a LAN of computers together to do cooperative work isn't a new idea. Combining several thousand computers spread across the globe into a commodity service like water or electricity is. But is the "computing grid" ready for us to plug in? Here's a report.
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Never one to mince words, Sun Microsystem's CEO shares his thoughts on Linux, Java, working with the Open Source community, and of course, Microsoft.
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Open Source is about to change your life. Find out how it could even affect your genetic structure.
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The CEO of one of the largest software companies in the world plans 50 Linux applications by year's end. Here's why.
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Commercial Linux distributions have come and gone, but through it all, the non-commercial Debian project has forged ahead. Here's a look at where it's been and where it's going.
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Even in the world of operating systems, inbreeding is a bad thing. James Gosling, Java's creator, explains why heterogeneity is good and how Linux and Java contribute to it.
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Python has become one of the open source community's most popular scripting languages. Guido van Rossum, Python's creator, shares his thoughts on where it's going.
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Jabber stands on the brink of becoming a general-purpose mechanism for allowing people, devices, and programs to interact. How will it play with .NET? Jeremie Miller, Jabber's inventor, offers his thoughts.
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What began with coffee mugs being hurled across a hotel meeting room has resulted in a complete redesign of the Perl programming language. Larry Wall shares his thoughts on the future of Perl.
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Bruce Perens is one of Linux's most visible evangelists. Here he shares his views on everything from open source challenges HP faces to the danger the term Open Source poses to Free Software.
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What do Intel and AMD have planned for Linux? And where does Transmeta fit
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Dirk Hohndel, SuSE's CTO, shares his thoughts on the differences between the
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Samba has been called Linux's stealth weapon -- the killer app that allows Linux to replace Windows file servers. Samba's creator, Andrew Tridgell, talks about the origins of Samba and the future of Open Source.
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Dennis Ritchie, the father of the C programming language and one of the co-creators of Unix, shares his thoughts on the open source development model, Linux, and the legacy of Unix.
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Sun Microsystems cannot ignore the open source community, and the open source community cannot ignore Sun. While Sun's history with open source is slightly checkered, the times do seem to be a changin'.
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What makes a successful open source company? If there's one corporation worth examining to answer this question, it's Red Hat. Since awakening the financial community to the open source phenomenon with its remarkable IPO in August of 1999, Red Hat has steadily been writing the book on how to build a Linux business. Linux Magazine's Adam Goodman, Robert McMillan, and Chris Somerville recently caught up with Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik to discuss the lessons learned during his company's first year and a half as a public company. Szulik, a mild-mannered Bostonian who had recently shaved his head for a charity, has seen a fair bit in his first year at the helm: A dozen acquisitions, executive flight (CFO and CTO), and a stock that soared to $300/ share and then plummeted to 1/30th of that value. But in the end, he says, it's the future, not the money, that motivates him each day.
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Does Linux really spell the end of proprietary embedded operating systems? Lineo CEO Bryan Sparks certainly thinks so -- and he's doing everything he can to make it happen.
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To GNOME founders Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman, open source software is all about people. Here they share their thoughts on Free Software development, the GNOME and KDE projects, and their new company, Helix Code.
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GNOME is much more than just a desktop environment for Linux. It has emerged as a standard around which many traditional Unix vendors have begun to coalesce and has become a shining example of how the open source community can work together with commercial vendors.
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With all the talk about Linux fragmenting, and debate over whether it will ever scale to the enterprise, the man who started this whole fracas remains a pillar of calm through it all. We talk to Linus about the changing Linux community, his thoughts on the future of Linux, and how his life has changed in the past two years.
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The last couple of years have been a wild time for Linux. But, when you peel away all the hype, what progress has Linux really made in the marketplace? And, where is it going from here?
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Ransom Love's Caldera Linux Systems became a powerhouse overnight when it acquired traditional Unix vendor SCO. Step two is leveraging SCO's technology to help Linux scale to the enterprise.
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OK, I'm a sucker for the melodramatics, and I got goose bumps on August 15, 2000. I was sitting in the most unlikely place for this to occur -- the pressroom at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Jose, CA. At the podium was Sun Microsystems' Marco Boerries. What caused the shiver to run up my spine was the fact that he was talking about how his company was about to dump its venerable CDE in favor of the GNOME desktop.
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More then any other large traditional technology company, IBM has embraced the open source community. But what is their long-term strategy for Linux? Read on...
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Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates share their thoughts on growing up, getting famous, and the responsibility that comes with having the biggest megaphone in the world.
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If you thought Dell Computer Corp. was all about Windows, think again. Michael Dell gives us the inside scoop on his company's Linux strategy.
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Three core members of the original Apple Macintosh team are building the next generation GUI for Linux. And reinventing the open source business model along the way.
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Corel's CEO Michael Cowpland is going after Microsoft on its home turf --
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Will all technology vendors be doing open source
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Jon "Maddog" Hall is the guy that companies like IBM and HP go to when they want to find out how to do the right thing by the Linux community. Hey, with a name like Maddog, they sure don't want to get on his bad side...
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How does a tiny company from Utah develop into the most significant
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Brian Behlendorf was the first Webmaster at Wired Magazine, and he went on to become a founding member of the Apache Web Server Project. Now, as the driving force behind Collab.net, Inc., Brian has a chance to change the way software is developed.
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Don't call it the next Microsoft. If things go Bob Young's way, people will think of Red Hat as the Wal-Mart of the open source world.
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Though his company publishes some of the best Linux books out there, Tim O'Reilly says Apache, not Linux, is the battle ground for the open source revolution.
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Since heading up the Open Source Initiative, Eric Raymond has become one of the most prominent advocates of open source software.
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The guys who gave Linux its very own 800 number look to serve the Fortune 1000, without losing perspective.
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The Guru himself gives us his take on Open Source Software, kernel hacking, and why he'll never work in Redmond.
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