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Bill Joy – Early career

After growing up in suburban Detroit, Michigan, Joy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1979. Joy’s PhD advisor was Bob Fabry. As a UC Berkeley graduate student, Joy worked for Fabry’s Computer Systems Research Group CSRG in managing the BSD support [...]

Linux distribution – Introduction

Linux distribution (also called GNU/Linux distribution by some vendors and users) is a member of the family of Unix-like software distributions built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions (often called ”distros” for short) consist of a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players and database applications. The operating [...]

Digital Research – Introduction

Digital Research, Inc. (aka DR or DRI; originally Intergalactic Digital Research) was the company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related products. It was the first large software company in the microcomputer world. Digital Research should not be confused with Digital Equipment Corporation; the two were not [...]

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. – Partners

* [http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/alliance-members.aspx Microsoft System Center Alliance] * Oracle * IBM * VMWare * Microsoft Gold Certified Partner * Red Hat, Inc. * Novell, Inc. * SAP AG * [http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.b95bfa42570e7b68053a6b108973a801?id=91082c5f6fe921102c5f6fe9211038378a10RCRD HP Gold Business Partner] * [http://www.openvms.compaq.com/partners/ HP OpenVMS Systems] * Sun Catalyst Member Adapted from the Wikipedia article Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc., under the G. N. [...]

Studies related to Microsoft – “Get the Facts”

”Get the Facts” was an advertising campaign launched by Microsoft in 2004 to convince users to switch from Linux to Windows servers. It was originally focused on comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of Linux to Windows, but later compared reliability, security and interoperability. Microsoft claims that its products have a lower overall TCO [...]

NetworkManager – Introduction

NetworkManager is a software utility aimed at simplifying the use of computer networks on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Red Hat initiated a NetworkManager project in 2004 with the goal of enabling Linux users to deal more easily with modern networking needs, particularly wireless networking. NetworkManager takes an opportunistic approach to network selection, attempting [...]

Mono (software) – Introduction

Mono, , is a free and open source project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant, .NET-compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems. Microsoft may hold [...]

Common Desktop Environment – History

Corporate history SunSoft, HP, IBM and USL announced CDE in June 1993 as a joint development within the Common Open Software Environment (COSE) initiative. The primary environment was based on HP’s VUE (Visual User Environment), itself derived from the Motif Window Manager (mwm). IBM contributed its Common User Access model and Workplace Shell. Novell provided [...]

Xen – Uses

Virtual machine monitors (also known as hypervisors) often operate on mainframes and large servers running IBM, HP, and other systems. Internet hosting service companies increasingly use hypervisors to provide virtual private servers. Server virtualization can provide benefits such as: * consolidation * increased utilization * rapid provisioning * dynamic fault tolerance against software failures (through [...]

SCO-Linux controversies – Background

At the beginning of 2003, SCO claimed that there had been “misappropriation of its UNIX System V code into Linux”. However, the company refused to identify the specific segments of code, claiming that it was a secret which they would reveal only to the court. They did say that the code could be found in [...]

Unix wars – The move towards open source code

In March 1993 the major participants in UI and OSF formed the Common Open Software Environment (COSE) alliance, effectively marking the end of the most significant era of the Unix wars. In June, AT&T sold its UNIX assets to Novell, and in October Novell transferred the Unix brand to X/Open. In 1996, X/Open and the [...]

WS-Management – Implementations and Application Support

Server Operating Systems

* Microsoft’s operating systems Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista include Windows Remote Management 1.1 (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of the WS-Management standard. WinRM 1.1 is also available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. * Using WS-Management (WinRM 2.0), Windows PowerShell 2.0 allows scripts and cmdlets to be invoked on a remote machine [...]

Zero configuration networking – Service discovery

Solaris Operating System

Apple’s protocol: Multicast DNS/DNS-SD Multicast DNS (mDNS) is a protocol that uses APIs similar to unicast Domain Name System but implemented over a multicast protocol. Each computer on the LAN stores its own list of DNS resource records (e.g., A, MX, SRV) and joins the mDNS multicast group. When an mDNS client wants to know [...]

Personal computer – Software

Computer software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some tasks on a computer system. The term includes application software such as word processors which perform productive tasks for users, system software such as operating systems, which interface with hardware to provide the necessary services [...]









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