Vista problems may ripen desktop Linux

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May 10, 20061 min

Best of the blogs: What with Yankee Group saying new security features in Windows Vista may make the user experience so disruptive that customers should hold off on deployments, Dave Rosenberg points out that “now is the time for desktop Linux to take market share,” in Open Sources.

Quoteworthy: If you are a data hacker — and what programmer isn’t? — the good times are getting ready to roll. — Jon Udell. Unified data theory.

VoIP: While VoIP services can be attractive, users should read the fine print of their cell phone contracts to make sure they can tap such services. T-Mobile customers, for instance, cannot.

Storage: Echoing announcements earlier this week from EMC, NetApp and Sun, vendors IBM and LSI expand midrange storage with new 4Gbps systems. Symantec, meanwhile, releases a free version of its Storage Foundation storage management software.

The news beat: Microsoft tests Windows CE 6.0 and Speech Server 2007; final versions of both could be available later this year. Hewlett-Packard rolls out five business notebooks. Everest Software climbs aboard the on-demand train in hopes of taking on NetSuite. And a new effort within Eclipse aims to bring plug-and-play functionality for composing integrated applications to the server side.