Study: Windows Cheaper Than Linux

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MS: Windows Cheaper than Linux, Apache

MS: Windows Cheaper than Linux, Apache 04/06/2005 12:37 PM
Microsoft has launched a new campaign to promote Windows as a more reliable and less costly platform for businesses than Linux. The company is citing a report it commissioned from VeriTest, which found that Windows Server 2003 prevented more downtime and was better at resolving issues than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.

Study Finds Windows More Reliable than
Linux

Study Finds Windows More Reliable than
Linux 04/06/2005 11:56 AM
A Microsoft-sponsored study finds Windows Server 2003 is more reliable and robust and allows IT administrators to execute various tasks more quickly than those using Red Advanced Server 3.0 running on the same hardware.

Microsoft touts latest Windows v. Linux
study

Microsoft touts latest Windows v. Linux
study 04/05/2005 11:38 PM
Blog: Another Microsoft-funded study has been released that says Windows is better than Linux. This time the issue is reliability. ...

Study Shows Windows Beats Linux on
Security

Study Shows Windows Beats Linux on
Security 06/24/2005 07:24 PM
Security is one of the chief concerns of IT decision makers. Along with purchase price, interoperability, maintainability and deployment costs, security is a critical factor in determining which platform to deploy across an enterprise or to serve a particular role.

Microsoft: Linux isn't cheaper

Microsoft: Linux isn't cheaper 05/26/2004 03:16 PM

Microsoft To Break Out Cheaper Windows
In More Markets

Microsoft To Break Out Cheaper Windows
In More Markets 08/02/2004 03:26 PM
Techzonez Aug 2 2004 7:55PM GMT

Microsoft to introduce cheaper version
of Windows

Microsoft to introduce cheaper version
of Windows 08/10/2004 11:11 PM
Forbes Aug 11 2004 3:11AM GMT

Microsoft to Introduce Cheaper Version
of Windows (Reuters)

Microsoft to Introduce Cheaper Version
of Windows (Reuters) 08/11/2004 02:04 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said it will begin selling a stripped-down, low-cost version of its Windows XP operating system in the emerging markets of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in order to spread the use of computing and develop technology markets.

CORRECTED - Microsoft to introduce
cheaper version of Windows

CORRECTED - Microsoft to introduce
cheaper version of Windows 08/11/2004 01:53 PM
Forbes Aug 11 2004 5:41PM GMT

A Linux Island in a C:\ of Windows: Part
3, Playing in the Windows World

A Linux Island in a C:\ of Windows: Part
3, Playing in the Windows World 03/14/2005 05:25 PM
Now that your Linux VM is up, running and connected to the company network, it's time to move corporate work to the Linux side.

Study: Linux the Safest Out There

Study: Linux the Safest Out There 12/17/2004 06:27 PM
A study says Linux contains far fewer bugs than most commercial software.

Real World Linux - The Big Move From
Windows to Linux

Real World Linux - The Big Move From
Windows to Linux 06/26/2002 01:02 PM
"I have recently jumped over to Linux from Windows, after putting it off for far too long, and thought it might be worth sharing my experience in order to encourage others in the same boat."

Windows: The Mid-Market Favorite, Study
Claims

Windows: The Mid-Market Favorite, Study
Claims 04/05/2005 05:23 PM
Those Windows vs. Linux studies just keep on coming. On Tuesday, analysts at Info-Tech Research Group published results of their study on operating-system usage in the midmarket. The conclusion? Very few mid-sized companies are interested in Linux.

Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability
Study

Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability
Study 04/18/2004 11:00 PM

Study: Linux may infringe on 283 patents

Study: Linux may infringe on 283 patents 08/02/2004 05:36 PM
A study funded by Open Source Risk Management LLC found that Linux may be infringing on 283 software patents, 27 of them held by Microsoft.

Linux Adoption Stalls, Study Says
(TechWeb)

Linux Adoption Stalls, Study Says
(TechWeb) 06/05/2005 10:59 PM
TechWeb - Linux adoption may be "hitting a wall," as use of the open-source operating system fell over a nine-month period, a quarterly survey of companies shows.

BibleTime - a bible study tool for linux

BibleTime - a bible study tool for linux 12/29/2003 07:20 AM
BibleTime 1.4

Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says
balanced study

Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says
balanced study 05/17/2004 03:07 PM

Study: Microsoft patents could threaten
Linux

Study: Microsoft patents could threaten
Linux 08/02/2004 08:00 AM
A total of 283 registered software patents, including 27 held by Microsoft Corp. could conceivably be used as the basis of patent lawsuits against the Linux kernel, according to a study of U.S. software patents scheduled to be released Monday.

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Introducing IBM eServer p5 systems.
Powered by IBM?s most advanced 64-bit microprocessor (POWER5(tm)), p5 systems can run UNIX and Linux simultaneously. Learn more about eServer p5 systems.

Introducing "Cooperative Linux" - Linux
for Windows, No Less

Introducing "Cooperative Linux" - Linux
for Windows, No Less 04/12/2004 02:06 PM
A month ago, a trial version of a little-known Linux application called "CoLinux" was released that is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. It's the work of a 21 year-old Israeli computer science student and some Japanese open source programmers; in Israel, analysts are already saying it could help transform the software world.

[IBM.com] Windows-to-Linux roadmapPart
1. Thinking in Linux

[IBM.com] Windows-to-Linux roadmapPart
1. Thinking in Linux 12/10/2003 05:26 PM

Windows 98 Users Face Increased Security
Risk, Says Study

Windows 98 Users Face Increased Security
Risk, Says Study 12/12/2003 10:28 AM
A new research paper to be released on Thursday is warning those companies still running Microsoft Windows 98 that they face an increased risk of a network security breach when Microsoft retires the product at the end of this year.

Case Study: Hentzenwerke Publishing
switches to Linux

Case Study: Hentzenwerke Publishing
switches to Linux 06/07/2004 07:14 AM
I've been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional seven times. I received the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. I've been publishing Visual FoxPro books since 1998. So it may come rather as a surprise to hear that I've been converting my entire company to Linux over the last couple of years.

Linux helps medical research: a case
study

Linux helps medical research: a case
study 12/29/2004 11:38 AM

Linux and Security at Salem Hospital: A
Case Study

Linux and Security at Salem Hospital: A
Case Study 01/05/2005 06:32 AM
Salem Hospital of Oregon switches from barebones OS projects to commercialized Linux for its security.

Study questions Torvalds' role in Linux
creation

Study questions Torvalds' role in Linux
creation 05/20/2004 01:11 AM
CNET May 20 2004 5:34AM GMT

Alien puppet Linus swiped Linux from
SCO, says balanced study

Alien puppet Linus swiped Linux from
SCO, says balanced study 05/17/2004 07:24 AM
Well, almost...

Mid-Sized Companies Not Interested in
Linux - Microsoft Still Dominates, Study
Says

Mid-Sized Companies Not Interested in
Linux - Microsoft Still Dominates, Study
Says 04/06/2005 02:25 AM
ActiveWin.com Apr 6 2005 6:34AM GMT

Microsoft distances itself from Alexis
de Tocqueville Institution Linux study

Microsoft distances itself from Alexis
de Tocqueville Institution Linux study 06/15/2004 10:35 PM
Microsoft is distancing itself from an Alexis de Tocqueville Instution study which attempted to cast doubts on the origins of Linux.

'Not the sharpest of knives' - praise
heaped on Linux study author

'Not the sharpest of knives' - praise
heaped on Linux study author 05/20/2004 12:50 PM
Tanenbaum speaks

Microsoft software partner finds
Microsoft software cheaper than Linux

Microsoft software partner finds
Microsoft software cheaper than Linux 06/24/2005 03:22 PM
The Register Jun 24 2005 5:11PM GMT

Linux vs. Windows

Linux vs. Windows 08/12/2004 11:39 AM

Linux on Windows

Linux on Windows 04/13/2004 08:32 AM

Whizzkid develops Linux application for Windows: This apparently isn't a new thing, but it's making the rounds of the tech blogs this morning.

The significance of the development is that Linux and Windows are able to work in parallel on the same computer or server. To now, the computer world is divided into systems that operate either with Windows or with Linux.

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Windows en Linux

Windows en Linux 04/24/2004 03:40 AM

Study Shows Microsoft, Linux
Neck-And-Neck (Reuters)

Study Shows Microsoft, Linux
Neck-And-Neck (Reuters) 04/04/2005 03:10 PM
Reuters - Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment, according to a new Yankee Group study released on Monday.

Study shows Microsoft, Linux costs
neck-and-neck

Study shows Microsoft, Linux costs
neck-and-neck 04/05/2005 04:12 AM
ActiveWin.com Apr 5 2005 8:53AM GMT

Windows vs. Linux Revisited

Windows vs. Linux Revisited 03/30/2005 08:41 PM
Slashdot Mar 30 2005 11:18PM GMT

"Get the Facts on Windows and Linux"

"Get the Facts on Windows and Linux" 01/08/2004 07:18 PM

CoLinux: Linux y Windows a la vez

CoLinux: Linux y Windows a la vez 04/13/2004 07:42 PM

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Linux.com: Forums - What is Fedora

Linux.com: Forums - What is Fedora 02/17/2004 07:59 PM
http://forums.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=33821 Cool overview of what Fedora is and is not....

Revisión Fedora Linux

Revisión Fedora Linux 11/11/2003 08:13 AM

Fedora Core 1 (formerly Red Hat Linux
10) Released

Fedora Core 1 (formerly Red Hat Linux
10) Released 11/05/2003 07:08 PM

Linux.Ars: if the Fedora fits, wear it

Linux.Ars: if the Fedora fits, wear it 11/05/2003 11:37 PM

Fedora Project Considering "Stateless
Linux"

Fedora Project Considering "Stateless
Linux" 09/13/2004 06:47 PM

Crack Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux

Crack Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 08/17/2004 05:34 AM
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Fedora Linux Core 2 (1.90) Test 1
Released

Fedora Linux Core 2 (1.90) Test 1
Released 02/13/2004 11:49 AM

Red Hat Fedora plans Linux kernel 2.6
for April

Red Hat Fedora plans Linux kernel 2.6
for April 12/19/2003 11:26 AM
First big test for the bleeding edge?

The Complete Reference: Red Hat
Enterprise Linux & Fedora Edition

The Complete Reference: Red Hat
Enterprise Linux & Fedora Edition 05/21/2004 02:35 PM
Useful information for everyone from novice users to system administrators.

Fedora vs Mandrake vs Suse: Linux
Distros Compared

Fedora vs Mandrake vs Suse: Linux
Distros Compared 07/03/2004 05:01 PM

Meet You at the Photo Kiosk

Meet You at the Photo Kiosk 03/17/2005 03:53 AM
Digital-photo kiosks at retail locations are booming as a way to print out pictures, providing a silver lining for Kodak and Fuji, not to mention camera stores, in a digital age.

Birth control by kiosk

Birth control by kiosk 08/16/2004 08:18 AM
globetechnology.com Aug 16 2004 12:42PM GMT

Me Too CD Kiosk Company Thinks They've
Come Up With Something New

Me Too CD Kiosk Company Thinks They've
Come Up With Something New 07/07/2004 04:38 AM
Reporters have no sense of history. For years, we've been pointing out all these breathless articles about "burn-on-demand kiosks" for either software or music in retail stores. Every time, a reporter insists its such a brilliant new invention, ignoring every other time it's been created in history -- perhaps because every time it's been created in the past, it fails. Having worked with a few of these companies quite a few years ago, it's pretty obvious why they fail. Well over a decade ago there was a company doing exactly this called Personics (though, they started with mix tapes in an age before CDs). While they did run into problems dealing with the music industry, logistical issues were a large part of the reason they never went very far. First, using the devices takes time. So, if you're in a store, that means you either need an awful lot of these devices, or you end up with people waiting around to use the machines when they could be at home downloading music the easy way. Next, kiosks in stores break. People bang away at them and they break. Maintaining the machines is insanely expensive. It always makes it nearly impossible to make any money off of these machines. So why is it that the press loves to write the same story every few years when a new company makes all the same mistakes? I have no idea. This time, they try to spin the story as a "legal way to download music." Of course, there already are plenty of legal ways to download music that don't involve having to stand around in a store using a busted grimy computer.

HP offers Linux-based Ce

HP offers Linux-based Ce 08/03/2004 07:39 PM
Techzonez Aug 3 2004 11:13PM GMT

Knoppix: CD-Based Linux

Knoppix: CD-Based Linux 07/06/2004 11:39 PM

I'm writing this entry from a Linux machine...but I never installed Linux. I've booted my PC off a Knoppix disc, which is a bootable Linux CD. I'm in Linux now, but I just need to pop the CD and reboot, and I'm back to Windows.

You can get the CD image file at www.knoppix.com (I used Bit Torrent to get my version). Burn it to a CD, stick it in the drive, and reboot. You will boot into a really nice Linux distribution.

There are no users on the system — you're automatically logged on as root. If you're worried about this, don't be — remember that you booted from a CD. If you screw something up as root, just reboot and the system will be back to normal.

While Knoppix can read everything on your hard drive, it has no write access by default, so it's not going to do anything to your existing stuff. You can allow it to write, but it's not advisable with an NTFS drive. Knoppix creates a ramdisk to store all the stuff it needs while running. It accesses everything else off the CD, just like it would off the hard drive normally. When you run a new program, you can hear the CD spool up. Consequently, it's slower than a normal Linux machine, but not by much.

It's fully functional — it detected everything on my machine, including FireWire and USB devices. I just had to get the network card to broadcast a DHCP request and I was on the network. It recognized my Lexmark E210 printer just fine, and I'm listening to MP3s on XMMS as I write this. I had more trouble with my dedicated Linux install at work, and I spent days fiddling with that.

It comes with scads of software, like most Linux distributions — KDE, Open Office, The Gimp, Mozilla, Konquerer, etc. Since it forms a ramdisk when it boots, you can save files and work with them just as if it were a normal operating system. I saved the image above off a Web site, cropped it, and converted it to JPG in The Gimp. If I wanted to keep it beyond this session, I could always FTP it somewhere (remember that KDE is FTP-aware — you can map an FTP site to a local folder, so you'd never really know the difference).

I'm fairly well stunned by this. It's really amazing. Sure, it can't really store or persist anything locally from session to session, but most of my apps are Web-based and my email is IMAP, so I'm actually pretty functional.

If you ever wanted to try Linux but you don't want to make any changes to your current Windows set-up, Knoppix is exactly what you're looking for.

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First Linux-based tablet PC

First Linux-based tablet PC 11/02/2003 02:09 PM
We almost weren't going to post something about this, but what the heck, it's been a slow weekend for gadgets: Desktop Evolution is coming out with the first tablet PC running Linux. The De-Tablet is actually Toshiba's Portege 3500, just with a special version of the Linux operating system designed for pen-based computing. Unfortunately, it doesn't support handwriting recognition yet, which is one of the better features of Microsoft's Tablet PC operating system. Read [Via Slashdot]...

PC-Based, Linux Robots

PC-Based, Linux Robots 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Dafydd Walters has written the first of a series of articles for mobilerobotics.org on the challenges of building a PC-based robot that runs Linux. His first article includes an introduction explaining the project and a few of the goals. He also presents a list of interesting hardware that could be used for PC-based robots and links to a lot of related web sites. Dafydd is also responsible for the Open Automaton Project which we've covered in previous articles.

Linux-based Wi-Fi hot spot on CD

Linux-based Wi-Fi hot spot on CD 09/08/2004 12:28 PM

Linux-Based X Terminals with XDMCP

Linux-Based X Terminals with XDMCP 05/05/2004 05:22 AM
A tutorial for configuring XDMCP on your network so you can use old equipment, cut down on administration duties and cut costs.

Sony-Ericsson's Linux-based ROB-1

Sony-Ericsson's Linux-based ROB-1 03/14/2005 06:03 PM
A LinuxDevices.com article describes the new Sony Ericsson ROB-1 robot which was announced last week. The robot is basically a small, teleoperated camera contained in an 11 cm spherical shell. The two hemispheres form main drive wheels and a small tail-dragger is used for balance. The robot uses a 200 MHz Freescale Dragonball processor with 2 MB of RAM and runs Linux. The robot can maintain a bluetooth link to a Sony-Erricsson P900/P910 mobile phone. The phone can control the robot and display streaming video from the onboard camera.

Linux-based Bluetooth Robot

Linux-based Bluetooth Robot 03/19/2005 02:33 AM

Linux-based Confernce Registration

Linux-based Confernce Registration 12/21/2002 04:16 PM
There's a good story over at NewsForge about a Linux-based Conference Registration System. It uses LAMP, iOpeners, LTSP, and some custom-built Java code. Very cool....

HP launches Linux-based notebook

HP launches Linux-based notebook 08/03/2004 06:22 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 3 2004 9:43PM GMT

Linux Based Tablets Are Coming

Linux Based Tablets Are Coming 11/01/2003 03:03 AM

HP Releases Linux-Based Notebook

HP Releases Linux-Based Notebook 08/03/2004 11:08 PM

Sun To Unveil Linux-Based Applications

Sun To Unveil Linux-Based Applications 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Sun Microsystems has announced plans to promote open source software that will serve as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office application suite. The new offering, which is based on Linux, is targeted toward specific segments of the enterprise market in which Microsoft may be vulnerable.

Liebermann announces 64-bit Linux based
L OS

Liebermann announces 64-bit Linux based
L OS 05/21/2004 08:31 AM

Pluto: Linux-based Do-everything System

Pluto: Linux-based Do-everything System 01/03/2004 03:21 PM

A Linux-Based Implementation of Mobility
Using SIP

A Linux-Based Implementation of Mobility
Using SIP 06/07/2004 01:04 AM
When you need to keep a connection, such as a voice over IP phone call, up when moving from network, use this feature of the Session Initiation Protocol.

Linux-based Bluetooth Robot - ROB-1

Linux-based Bluetooth Robot - ROB-1 03/19/2005 03:23 AM

Study: Windows Cheaper Than Linux

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