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While it may be delaying the release of the consumer version of Windows Vista OS until January 2007, Microsoft is reassuring enterprise users that the corporate version will still be available by late November. What remains unclear, however, is if existing corporate PCs will have the horsepower for the early adopters to make full use of it.

Red Hat recently laid out its strategy to make it easier for customers to run and manage their workloads in a virtualized Linux environment.

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Search tools have simplified our lives in many ways, so why not network management? So reason the founders of Splunk, a start-up that has released a search product to make sense of logs and other types of event information generated by systems as they go about their business.

Computing with the power of self-healing could be just what the doctor ordered for many businesses. It comes with a

Fortunately for enterprise IT managers and end users, the announcement last month from Microsoft that changes have been made to the release schedule for its forthcoming Vista operating system will not have much of an effect on them. At least not yet.

The days of selling software through the traditional commercial model are numbered, as open source is becoming the paradigm of choice, said Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, at the EclipseCon 2006 conference last month.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has taken another step to leverage open-source design so that developers can create more servers based on its Sparc chip architecture. As expected, the company last month released the source code for its UltraSparc T1 processor.