84 percent say no thanks to Windows 7, Apr 14, 2009

One new survey of more than 1100 IT professionals from small, mid-sized, and large IT organisations worldwide has revealed that an astonishing 84 percent have absolutely no plans to upgrade to Windows 7 during the course of the next year - and that in the face of some pretty encouraging and enthusiastic reports from beta testers so far.

Canonical, the company that sponsors the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has attacked a Microsoft blogger's claims about why Windows netbooks outsell their Linux counterparts.

SYNNEX, a leading software and hardware distributor, has partnered up with Red Hat and other open-source ISV (independent software vendors) to form the Open Source Channel Alliance. It may just be what's needed to get Linux and open-source software into more offices.

There is no doubt why Microsoft won this round of the Netbook wars. There are, at Fry’s, a number of Netbooks on offer. None ran Linux. All ran Windows. The salesman was a Linux enthusiast, however, and was able to explain just why you can’t get Ubuntu there.

2.6.30-rc2 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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With the stock market shedding half of its value between July 2007 and January 2009, the market price of a lot of public technology companies has essentially been put on a “50% off sale.” This creates an atmosphere that is ripe for consolidation. As soon as the companies with the cash have confidence that the economy is at an inflection point, they will start spending money to position themselves for the turnaround.

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