http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000448564b,00.htm Gary Flood's Blog - Tech chat - an occasional blog about stuff I find interesting - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:56:49 +0000 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:56:49 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) If the classic definition of being Tory is a dislike of big government and a hankering after the clarity of the past, I now find myself happy to be classed as such. What has 'gone wrong' in so much of business use of IT, it seems to me, after not just ... zdnetuk/10008827 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008827o-2000448564b,00.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:19:26 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) Please go here http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/video/0,1000002009,39437728,00.htm to check out the first (of 3) slices of our recent discussion here on what our summer server OS research has told us about the reality of the UK market. I thi... zdnetuk/10008521 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008521o-2000448564b,00.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:30:43 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) A couple of weeks back (28th May) I posted that I recommended an innediate trip to the Laughing Academy for anyone still doing work in a UNIX that was non-Linux. I had in mind the proprietary OSes of course of the likes of IBM (AIX) and HP (HP-UX) - an... zdnetuk/10008520 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008520o-2000448564b,00.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:26:31 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) Took part in a fascinating debate the other day here at ZDNet.co.uk which we filmed and which will be on the site in the next few days. This was again exploring issues thrown up by the research but that was just the starting point. This time the expert... zdnetuk/10008488 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008488o-2000448564b,00.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:56:00 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) An interesting side effect of datacentre growth has come to my attention, as part of this month's intense look by ZDNet.co.uk into server use in the UK (based originally into our poll of the ZDNet UK community, but since bolstered by commentary and input ... zdnetuk/10008455 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008455o-2000448564b,00.htm Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:59:28 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) Go here to see a panel discussion on the findings of the server OS survey, where I spoke to representatives of Red Hat, VMware and Novell http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/video/0,1000002009,39427756,00.htm http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/vi... zdnetuk/10008368 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008368o-2000448564b,00.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:29:04 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) UK organisations at both the enterprise and SME end are struggling with cost and support of their server operating systems, according to exclusive research carried out by ZDNet UK. When asked what their main challenges were in working with server OSes,... zdnetuk/10008366 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008366o-2000448564b,00.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:43:04 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) Is there anyone seriously suggesting these days that a non-Open Source Linux is worth having? I ask this as someone who has tracked the whole 'Open Systems' (remember that tag line?) debate since the late 1980s, UNIX International, Open Software Foundatio... zdnetuk/10008311 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008311o-2000448564b,00.htm Wed, 28 May 2008 13:10:59 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) As per my delving into the reality of today's server OS, and without giving away specific results, here is a fun exercise for the reader: of these eleven features, what ranking do you think the real-life IT professionals who took part on our online survey... zdnetuk/10008270 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008270o-2000448564b,00.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 15:33:08 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) One of the things that leaps out of the research - more details next week as promised - is that virtualisation seems to be more honoured in the breach than the observance; possibly like green IT, more an issue for journalists and suppliers than real live ... zdnetuk/10008251 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008251o-2000448564b,00.htm Wed, 21 May 2008 12:50:56 +0100