Canonical Resorts to Tough Love Over Server Outage, Aug 21, 2007

The servers in question were for community functions such as blogs and local documentation, and not for downloadable software. Nonetheless, Canonical apparently was not amused.

Enrico Pesatori knows a thing or two about business strategy. He has been admired for his self-sustaining executive track record at Digital Equipment, Compaq and BlueArc. Now, as chairman and CEO of Penguin Computing, he's out to make the company a leader in high-performance computing servers, systems and cluster-management software.

AT&T acknowledged today that it is testing alternative operating systems to the Windows platform it now uses, but said the review is not specifically related to security concerns.

Mike Dickman, AT&T spokesperson, said reports suggesting AT&T might be considering scrapping Microsoft Windows for Linux are "Fiction. Out of context." He said that AT&T has no intention of dropping Microsoft at this time.