Manek Dubash

Novell Inc. is launching Novell Linux Desktop 9 (LD9) Monday

Bob Metcalfe's at it again. Mr. Ethernet, now a venture capitalist, technologist and pundit, is making wild predictions and this time it's ZigBee, the 2.4GHz wireless standard

Over the six months from July 2003, Debian has been the fastest growing Linux distribution according to Bath, England-based Internet researcher Netcraft Ltd. Netcraft counted active sites containing the name of a Linux distribution in the Apache Corp. server header.

Most PC professionals are concerned about the increasing complexity of PC environments, particularly new software releases and security requirements, and consider that PC desktop administration is a "significant task" or a "costly and time-consuming burden," according to new research commissioned by thin-client specialist Citrix Systems Inc. from European business analysts QNB Intelligence Ltd.