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Linux future scales up

At the time when distributed architectures such as those proposed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems are beginning to emerge, Linux should be considered for its ability to scale out in a horizontal fashion.  The key is mainframes, which are generally considered to be scalable machines. The end of the world is near. At last [...]

Will Linux find a future on the desktop?

A key area of advancement in open source is visual. As digital converge comes to fruition, the move toward an open environment for entertainment took a major leap when Sun Microsystems released Project Looking Glass under GPL. Email functionality is another subject to discuss: this will be the most significant factor governing the take-up of [...]

UNIX

UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and Douglas McIlroy.  Today’s UNIX systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT & T, as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit organizations. The [...]

Java

Java creator James Gosling points out that there are 150 million Java-enabled mobile phones. Although other promising markets exist for the technology, “the one that continues to grow like a weed is cell phones,” he says. Java is the programming language originally designed by Sun Microsystems for use in the distributed environment of the Internet. [...]