Sorry, admins: Microsoft says NO new Windows Server until 2016

Wedging Docker containers into Windows to take a leeeettle longer

While it’s looking like the final version of Windows 10 for client PCs could ship before the end of the year, it seems data center admins needn’t hold their breaths. Microsoft confirmed on Friday that the next version of Windows Server won’t arrive until 2016.…

Win Sun, lose Sun: How Larry’s bet on old-world systems hurt Oracle

AWS and Salesforce match up to Ellison’s hardware

Oracle-Sun anniversary  Feeling calm and relaxed? Join the Reg on a journey to an alternate reality where Oracle’s cloud business is the envy of all of its competitors. It holds two trillion objects and is growing faster now than at any time in its history.…

Five years of Sun software under Oracle: Were the critics right?

They said Java, MySQL and Solaris were all doomed

Oracle-Sun anniversary  Back in 2010, critics worried that Sun Microsystems’ software portfolio would wither on the vine once Oracle got its hands on it. Five years on and the worst fears have proven baseless, yet former Sun diehards have had plenty to be disappointed about since Larry Ellison & Co gobbled the former server heavyweight.…

Opera Jon weaves a brand new browser

And strangely, it looks a lot like Opera

The man behind the Opera browser has created a new one, he says, because power users are poorly served. The new Vivaldi browser launched today in a “Technical Preview” form, with customisation and speed taking it in a different direction to the mainstream, where minimalism rules the day.…

BOO! Grave remote-code exec bug in GNU C Library haunts Linux

When there’s something strange in your gethostbyname, who y’gonna call? Ghostbusters

Security researchers have uncovered a critical bug in the GNU C Library (glibc), a key component of Linux and some other operating systems, which could render countless machines vulnerable to remote code execution attacks.…