Microsoft Virtual Server Release 2 has begun shipping to manufacturers and is due for general release in the first week of December with a new pricing model and a number of new features, most notably ...

There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I outlined five of these in a recent article. Now that all major VDI ...

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...

BackBox Linux is a free, open-source community project based on Ubuntu. Find out how to use the BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine. Several Linux distributions are available nowadays for ...

IBM last week announced a plan to create “virtual servers” for corporate users connected to mainframes running in its data centers, provided that the users are willing to run applications on a Linux ...

The success of Mozilla's Firefox and Openoffice.org's productivity suite has breathed life into people's aspirations about Desktop Linux. As a result, the vast majority of articles published today ...

Editor's note: I am pleased to bring you a new young blogger on Planet Analog, Tyler Deuty. He will be occasionally blogging and bringing us a really good perspective ...