Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I’ve never been a friend to Vista. I’ve found it flawed, a resource hog, and, when you got right down to it, a step backward from Windows XP, not to mention Mac OS X and the various Linux desktops. It turns out though that as harsh as I’ve been on Vista, it’s nothing compared to […]

It’s been an open secret that controversial SCO CEO Darl McBride was being forced out. Now, in an interview with the Salt Lake City Tribune, McBride admits that his days at SCO are numbered. In the interview, McBride said, “Clearly when we draw up a battle plan for what we’ve been working for the last […]

I had really thought that Vista SP1 would be an improvement. I didn’t think it would be a big improvement, but still that it would be more competitive with Windows XP and the modern Linux desktop. I was wrong.I’ve now been working with Vista SP1, the so-called RTM (release to manufacturing) version, for about two […]

You’ve got to give Microsoft credit for gall. They take a crunching defeat at the hands of the European Union court system for trying to conceal information and now that the court has forced them to reveal that same information, Microsoft is all about increasing “the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity […]

Microsoft has pinned its hopes for getting businesses to buy into Vista on the release of Vista Service Pack 1. So the company pushed SP1 out the door before it was ready, and now early adopters are discovering that Vista, with or without SP1, still isn’t business-ready. This comes as no surprise to me. I […]

Microsoft announced on Feb. 21 in a press release that it was launching “broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors.” Specifically, Microsoft promises to “enhance connections with third-party products,” by publishing documentation for all […]

You can never be thin enough, have enough money or a fast-enough wireless connection. That’s why everyone wants 801.11n, vendors are still locked in a standards war, and no one should spend any serious money on an 802.11n deployment. That’s why I’m not sure why Duke University plans on deploying more than 2,500 Cisco 802.11n […]

If I had a $100 million lying around, I really think I could find a better investment for my money than buying SCO. I could invest in, say, high-quality stocks, bonds, gold, New Orleans real estate, collectable Pez containers or, just the other day, I got this interesting investment opportunity from someone whose wealthy husband […]

There are reorganizations, and then there are Reorganizations. Microsoft just had one of the latter kinds. While I don’t follow Microsoft as closely as I do Linux and its companies, I do keep an eye on the Evil Empire and, frankly, and this was quite a shake-up. Some of these changes didn’t come as any […]

Whatever else you can say about new Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, you can’t say he thinks small. At the JBoss World 2008 tradeshow Feb. 13 in Orlando, Fla., Whitehurst said Red Hat plans not only for JBoss Enterprise Middleware to take 50 percent of the enterprise middleware market by 2015, but for JBoss’ revenue […]