Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting-edge PC operating system, 300bps was a fast Internet connection, WordStar was the state-of-the-art word processor, and we liked it!
Thinking of moving to the cloud? Send in the lawyers first
Before making the jump to the cloud, take a careful look at who will be legally and financially responsible for data breaches -- you or the cloud provider?
NAC decisions you need to make now to secure your network
Nothing about enterprise-level network access control is particularly easy, from the multiple levels of protocols to figuring out whether to use appliances or switches
Opinion: HTML5 is less than it's cracked up to be
For the foreseeable future, the Web is going to stay the way it is now: a mix of open standards and proprietary technologies
WiMax to finally arrive in 2010: Too little, too late?
Promised for a decade, the wide-area wireless broadband technology is finally on the horizon. But so is the competing LTE
OpenOffice.org 3.1: The next generation
A significant step ahead for this free open-source alternative to Microsoft Office
Running Windows 7 on a netbook
Microsoft has said that any version of Windows 7 will run on a netbook. We try it with Windows 7 Ultimate.
The top 10 operating system stinkers
Enough of the good old days! Let's talk about the bad old days of OSes instead.
The Google OS is coming by year's end
Android is already a desktop operating system and Asus has assigned engineers to develop an Android-based netbook by the end of the year
Take Windows 7 for a spin with VirtualBox
Sun's virtualization program enables a reporter to peer inside Microsoft's forthcoming OS
What's Red Hat doing in the virtualization business?
The Linux KVM that Red Hat gained in its Qumranet acquisition is the cornerstone of the company's ambitious plans for the virtualization market
Ubuntu goes enterprise
Ubuntu's parent company, Canonical, has unveiled plans to push the Linux distribution into enterprises as both a desktop and datacenter server OS
Will MySQL keep lighting up LAMP?
Linux users worry that Sun's purchase of MySQL will mean a de-emphasis of Linux and the LAMP stack in favor of Sun's Solaris ecosystem