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Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld that Virtual Server is an effort to address the variety of systems -- by age as well as vendor -- used in typical enterprise data centers today. "Organizations are generally grappling with what they consider the pain of heterogeneity," Gardner said. "Things don't work well without a lot of hand-holding."

The addition of the copyright claim is an indication that SCO is ready to take every avenue in its lawsuit against IBM, Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times "SCO continues to be persistent in standing up for what they think is an injustice," he said....

Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told LinuxInsider that while Linux has made solid steps forward in technical capability and appropriateness for corporate data centers, the guidelines put forth by OSDL were needed "I think that part of the maturing process for Linux is...

However, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner said the variety of factors and variables -- such as type of organization, time frame for the rollout, and qualitative issues like productivity and core competency -- make it difficult to make broad claims "It's a hugely comple...

However, that does not mean the suit can be ignored in 2004, especially by e-businesses that have come to depend on Linux. As Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times: "Lawsuits and software make strange bedfellows. The whole idea of defining intellectual property is difficult, and that's why it's been bandied about in the courts for so long."

Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner agreed that SCO appears to be fighting a PR and public-perception battle with its lawsuits "They're suing in every direction, and it's getting kind of silly," Gardner told the E-Commerce Times. "They're going after Novell's clients and ...

Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times that the vendors may have been waiting to evaluate the strength of SCO's case before extending indemnification to their customers. With the courts handing some early legal defeats to SCO by requiring it to detail how the Linux kernel is similar to code contained in its Unix patents, they may have been emboldened to step forward...

"HP perhaps didn't come out with the clamor of marketing Linux, but quietly, behind the scenes, HP has been very aggressive with Linux," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told LinuxInsider. Gardner said one reason for HP's low profile when it comes to Linux might be th...

Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner said that while the issues and code will have to be examined in court, indemnification by HP and Novell signals both companies' confidence that SCO will not prevail "It is marketing, but it is also saying, 'We're ready to do battle in c...

While there is recognition in the scientific research community and wider IT industry that distributed grid computing might be a more efficient, economical way to achieve supercomputing performance, management of resources remains the biggest challenge, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld...

In the last analysis, whether an organization should use Windows or Linux is a complicated decision highly dependent on the nature of that organization, contends Dana Gardner, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group in Boston. "It's not a zero-sum equation," he told TechNewsWorld. "It's not Windows or Linux; it's, 'Where is Windows appropriate and cost effective?' and, 'Where is putting a Linux operating system under a discrete or specific server appropriate?'" ...

"I think the SuSE acquisition gives a clear indication they would want to continue these projects," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld about Mono. "It really appears Novell is working toward an end-to-end Linux solution." ...

Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld that Novell's SuSE Linux acquisition brings Novell into a higher position of attention and gives the company the option of leveraging its Ximian desktop success with accompanying server software from SuSE Gardner, who...

Meanwhile, Novell's announced acquisition of SuSE for US$210 million will give the Red Hat competitor an end-to-end Linux lineup with its Ximian software and now software from SuSE, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told LinuxInsider ...

Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld that the idea of spreading computing tasks across numerous machines is a trend in both supercomputing and grid computing "It's really recognizing that this paradigm has a lot more flexibility and power," Gardner said....

The most important developers -- from Microsoft's perspective -- are the independent software vendors (ISVs) that ultimately will determine the success of the next Windows platform by creating the next generation of enterprise and consumer applications for it, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld...

The most important developers -- from Microsoft's perspective -- are the independent software vendors (ISVs) that ultimately will determine the success of the next Windows platform by creating the next generation of enterprise and consumer applications for it, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld...

Both Red Hat and SuSE have outlined long-term plans for Linux that involve more and more pieces of the total IT framework -- development tools and desktop software in addition to servers and other clients -- and both seem to be heading toward a Linux system, Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld...

Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told TechNewsWorld that Office 2003 represents a transformation of desktop software from a series of separate applications to a melding of client-server and network technologies that use standards such as XML and common Internet protocols...

"A lot of workers are already comfortable with Word and Excel, so if there's a way to make those programs do more heavy lifting in an enterprise, that's going to be appealing," Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times. "The fact that companies are already paying for this software is another selling point."