EDS: Linux is insecure, unscalable, Mar 16, 2005

Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Fuji Xerox, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC.

Latest figures from IDC show that Linux revenues are picking up in China, but will foreign vendors soon face tougher times?

Linux has helped the Renault Formula 1 team to slash its engine and chassis computational analysis time by 90 per cent.

Pioneer Petroleum is the largest independent gasoline retailer in Ontario, with 150 retail locations spread throughout the province. Twenty-five of those locations are running Red Hat Linux Workstation 3.0. The other 125 stores are expected to be rid of Windows by the end of 2005.

The latest stats released this week from research firm Netcraft illustrate that Red Hat's community-based Fedora Core Linux is the fastest-growing Linux distribution in use on Web servers. But Red Hat distros continue to own the majority of the Linux Web server market.

"Linux has dominated the marketplace for high-performance computing," says Mark Seager, assistant department head for advanced technologies at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.

Siemens is demonstrating a Linux-based "concept device" that doubles as a mobile phone and digital TV receiver, at the enormous CeBIT trade show this week in Germany.

Sharp has introduced a new model in its Zaurus line of Linux PDAs. The SL-C1000 is similar to the SL-C3000, but without an internal harddrive. As with previous Japan-only Zaurus models, the SL-C1000 will be available with internationalization features from a number of global resellers.

My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.

Motorola and Acer are among 13 software and appliance product vendors at CeBIT who are about to get, or may have already received, warning letters alleging their misuse of GPL licensed software.

Today, with companies like Red Hat, Novell and IBM fanning the heat of the Linux competition, support for Linux is expected to improve, compared to relying on the open source community.

2.6.11.4 has been released today.
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