Novell's OpenSUSE 11.1 has desktop features and an enviable community involvement strategy for tapping community involvement, but still a few rough spots. Can it stand up to Red Hat Fedora and Ubuntu from Canonical?
February 26, 2009
Motorola Ups Its WLAN Management Game
Motorola has updated its wireless LAN management offering, promising the new version can save customers money.
Google Adds Billing to App Engine
Google has added billing to its cloud computing platform, Google App Engine. The good news is users can go over the current free usage quotas - the bad news is that those free quotas are going to be reduced.
Logica Denies Price War, HP Disagrees
IT services company Lgica says that customers will still favour quality over price, even in a recession. But HP's UK director says he has seen competitors making "suicidal" offers
Microsoft Promises To Fix Windows 7 Issues
Microsoft's Windows engineering chief has promised to deal with more than 2000 issues, in response to criticism from Windows 7 beta testers
Marvell Puts A PC In A Plug
Network silicon maker Marvell, packs the guts of a computer into a unit the size of a small power transformer, and coined the term "plug computing"
IBM Puts Electric Car Plan In Drive
Big Blue will help a Danish group with smart grids to power electric vehicles, while Google has also backed green transport.
Rackspace Offers Carbon Calculator for Greener SMBs
Rackspace Hosting has announced a suite of tools to measure the carbon footprint of its small and medium-sized customers, promising the carbon calculator can save money and the environment
IBM, HP Server Sales Hit By Recession
Quarterly server revenue has shrunk at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun Microsystems, as the global economy slows down, according to IDC. The one positive area is blade servers