Last week Linus Torvalds told a seminar group at Portland's LinuxCon that Linux is getting a little bloated - a consequence of the big blob kernel architecture required by his decision to prefer the ...

I've talked to middle managers who sincerely believe that a PC costs about $300 and a 2,400 user system should therefore cost about $720K - before volume discounts. Similarly there are DP people ...

Despite performance issues surrounding Intel Corp.’s 64-bit Itanium chip, the overall lower cost promised by large Windows/Intel servers is luring some users in a tough economy to ditch their high-end ...

Last time, I shared with you a letter from a correspondent in South Africa who is required to restructure what seems to be a large and fairly complex IT environment. His shop includes mainframes, open ...

For a long time it was safe to write off Wintel as a scalable platform. But, for the last three years, a combination of factors have sent Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. careening toward the glass ...

What would your answer be if a selection team charged with hiring a new CIO to develop and implement an organization-wide “strategic systems architecture” were to ask you what management ...

Revived spending by small Asian firms on information technology is creating fresh opportunities for the Windows-on-Intel (Wintel) computing platform to remain a fixture in many organisations, despite ...