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Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation? 500

Posted by kdawson from the awareness-gap dept.
coondoggie sends us a NetworkWorld story on the prospects for Apple gaining market share in the corporation. A number of factors are helping to catch the eye of those responsible for upgrading desktops and servers, the article claims: "Apple's shift to the Intel architecture; the inclusion of infrastructure and interoperability hooks, such as directory services, in the Mac OS X Server; dual-boot capabilities; clustering and storage technology; third-party virtualization software; and comparison shopping, which is being fostered by migration costs and hardware overhauls associated with Microsoft's Vista." On this last point, one network admin is quoted: "The changes in Vista are significant enough that we think we can absorb the change going to Macs just as easily as going to Vista."
Programming

Submission + - Are false positives hurting you?

Submitted by
Gerald
Gerald writes: "After the most recent Wireshark release a certain AV vendor's product started warning users that the installer contained adware. Since then, I've spent several hours verifying this isn't the case, trying to get the AV vendor to fix their stuff, and reassuring affected users that we do not ship adware with our product.

Unfortunately, this isn't an isolated case. I've had to do this several times over the past few years, and each incident uses up time that could have been better spent elsewhere. It's even worse for other projects. If you produce software, have you ever suffered collateral damage from AV false positives?"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Details of the Novell Microsoft Deal

Submitted by utlemming
utlemming writes: Novell today announced the details of the Novell/Microsoft Deal. Found on Novell's website, the details state that Microsoft and Novell will allow each other's OS products to run as guest operating systems. Other details include eDirectory and Active Directory integration and document format compatibility.
Google

Submission + - Media Firms Say Google Benefited from Film Piracy

Submitted by draos
draos writes: The Wall Street Journal is reporting(Subscription required) that "A group of major media companies has accused Internet giant Google Inc. of benefiting from the sale of pirated movies and providing business support to two Web sites suspected of offering access to illegal film downloads, according to several people familiar with the matter." According to the article Google's response: "On Friday, Google responded to the complaints by agreeing to implement a series of measures it believes will help thwart piracy. In an afternoon conference call with studio representatives, lawyers for Google said the company would remove certain ads the companies objected to, create a list of approved advertisers and refrain from selling keywords used by rogue sites to lure users to pirated material. In addition, the Google lawyers said the company would introduce internal guidelines on monitoring keywords and train its ad sales force about how to avoid selling such ads." The article is also reported here(searchengineland.com).
Microsoft

Submission + - Virtual Windows to Run Unmodified on Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Novell and Intel Corporation today announced the availability of paravirtualized network and block device drivers that will allow Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003/XP to run unmodified in Xen virtual environments on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell, operating on Intel-based server platforms featuring Intel Virtualization Technology.
Mandriva

Submission + - Interview with URPMI mantainer from Mandriva

Submitted by sebelk
sebelk writes: OpenKairos have interviewed to URPMI mantainer, Pascal Rigaux, who is a Mandriva/Mandrakesoft historic man. And what is URPMI? It's the system that uses Mandriva to make easy pacakges installation. Pixel tells us technical and chronological details about URPMI. Also, answer sto questions about RPM and DEB formats, and other interesting topics. Complete story is here

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