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In fact most people think Javscript is bad because they have to use it inside browsers which tend to ignore the specification (OK, the one with 75% market share). In most cases Javascript is not the reason for frustration but the lack of DOM-compliant behaviour of the browsers (Ok, the one with 75% market share).

You may read some articles about Javascript, which indeed has some cool features. And with Adobes open sourced VM (Tamarin) it has a rather fast implementation too.

The Next Big Language
ECMAScript: The Switzerland of development environments?
JavaScript Speed Tests

Has this guy done anything relevant in the past couple of decades? Here's a choice quote of his:

Unix and the Internet turn 30 this summer. Both are senile, according to journalist Peter Salus, who like me is old enough, but not too old, to remember. The Open Sores Movement asks us to ignore three decades of innovation. It's just a notch above Luddism. At least they're not bombing Redmond. Not yet anyway.

The hard part of being down on Linux and the Open Sores Movement is worrying about that menace hanging over us at year's end. No, not Y2K, but Linux's nemesis, W2K, Windows 2000, the operating system formerly known as Windows NT 5.0.

W2K is software also from the distant past -- VAX/VMS for Windows. But it will overpower Linux. NT, now approaching 23x6 availability, is already overpowering Linux. NT and NetWare constitute 60 percent of server software shipments. All Unixes make up 17 percent, and Linux is a small fraction of that. When W2K gets here, goodbye Linux.

Microsoft is being extraordinarily abusive towards its customers, in my opinion.

Customers are being pushed toward buying Windows Vista, even though it is clearly not a finished product, and maybe even not a desirable product.

If a company needs to buy 1,000 new computers, it is placed in a terrible position. Will it buy Windows XP, a product that Bill Gates, software's Dr. Death, has declared is Mainstream Support Retired on 4/14/2009? If it does, it will be forced to pay extra when Microsoft desides to stop supporting Windows XP. And every Microsoft customer needs official support because of the huge, huge number of vulnerabilities that are found in Microsoft products.

Operating systems don't naturally have so many vulnerabilities. Users of Mac computers don't even bother to run anti-spyware and anti-virus software because they don't have problems. Large numbers of vulnerabilities are a built-in shortcoming of Microsoft products; apparently Microsoft doesn't let its programmers finish their work. Huge numbers of vulnerabilities force an unnatural connection with the supplier; the user is dependent on the supplier for patches; that creates opportunities for control. Vulnerabilities make more money for Microsoft because people are forced to "upgrade".

When Windows XP was first released, it was very, very buggy. Windows XP became relatively usable without hassles 3 years after its introduction, with the release of SP2. Service Pack 2 for XP fixed more than 330 problems, if I remember correctly, and some of those were not documented.

We have seen numerous reasons to believe that Windows Vista will also be full of hassles at least until Vista SP2.

Microsoft's customers were forced to upgrade to Windows XP because Windows 98 had an unstable file system, an unstable registry, and lots of problems with "DLL Hell" and the "Blue Screen of Death". Customers had to endure 3 bad years with Windows XP pre-SP2. Since the release of SP2, there have been only 3 relatively good years with Windows XP, and now Microsoft is arranging pressure to have bad years again.

That's ugly in my opinion, and I'm only one of many who think that way. This is all being done by billionaires who want nothing more than more money; that's sick.

Remember, Microsoft managers are sinking the company over the long term to get short-term profit.

With operating systems, there is lock-in. Linux is not an easy option because re-writing software and re-training is too expensive in most cases. But once a reasonable alternative is available, Microsoft will have difficulty finding customers, it seems to me.

It's fine if Microsoft introduces a new product. But there should not be pressure to buy the new product until it is stable. The "new" OS product should not be designed to require users to buy new hardware, as it seems is true with Windows Vista. Remember that Microsoft serves the system builders, who want everyone to need more hardware; the final customer can be dis-regarded and dis-repected because of OS lock-in.

One of the biggest and most respected IT magazines is rejecting Windows Vista: Save Windows XP. Quote: "More than 75,000 people have signed InfoWorld's "Save XP" petition in the three weeks since it was launched - many with passionate, often emotional pleas to not be forced to make a change."

"They [Microsoft's promises] only protect 'noncommercial' development and are set up to create a patented standards toll road so that Microsoft can charge competitors to compete."

Someone could make a really, really scary horror movie: Bill Gates as software's "Dr. Death", killing an OS used by millions of people, wasting their time by releasing software that isn't finished, and generally being dishonest and sneaky and adversarial toward the whole world.

Just when you thought that was as much ugliness as you could handle, there would be scenes of Microsoft Marketing robots spewing corporate-speak and not realizing that they are the undead.

One of the biggest and most respected IT magazines is rejecting Windows Vista: Save Windows XP. Quote: "More than 75,000 people have signed InfoWorld's "Save XP" petition in the three weeks since it was launched - many with passionate, often emotional pleas to not be forced to make a change."

The EU doesn't agree with you.

ECIS, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, voiced similar scepticism.

"The proof of this pudding will be in the eating. The world needs a permanent change in Microsoft's behaviour, not just another announcement. We have heard high-profile commitments from Microsoft a half-dozen times over the past two years, but have yet to see any lasting change in Microsoft's behaviour in the marketplace,"

The big secret is that Vista and Duke Nukem Forever are actually the same program. The trouble is, people keep trying to get Vista to act like an OS.

This incident has everything: 1) Overpaying executives and underpaying the people who do the work. He got stock options worth $30 million just for coming to work the first day? 2) Corporate lies and sneakiness and manipulation. 3) Absolutely no caring for customers. 4) Behavior that will eventually sink the company. Remember, at one time IBM had 100% of the PC business. Remember, IBM lost $1 billion on OS2, and then lost another $1 billion. Even the biggest company cannot treat customers badly forever.

The whole Vista experience oozes sleaziness. It's the true modern horror story. In comparison, the movie "Aliens" is for schoolchildren. What's a monster compared to Bill Gates in the role as software's "Dr. Death", degrading the quality of life of millions of people by hassling them and costing them more?

One of the biggest and most respected IT magazines is rejecting Windows Vista: Save Windows XP. Quote: "More than 75,000 people have signed InfoWorld's "Save XP" petition in the three weeks since it was launched - many with passionate, often emotional pleas to not be forced to make a change."

It's not just you. The absurdities are piling on top of each other, like cockroaches in a cup.

Gates: "We have a strategy for competing in the search space that Google dominates today, that we'll pursue that we had before we made the Yahoo offer, and that we can pursue without that. It involves breakthrough engineering."

"... competing in the search space..." That's corporate-speak. Generally, when someone uses corporate-speak, you can expect that they are talking baloney.

"... breakthrough engineering..." When has Microsoft ever had "breakthrough engineering". If you know of an example, please mention it.

Maybe he means "broken engineering". Microsoft's engineering is so bad that one of the biggest and most respected IT magazines is rejecting their newest product: Save Windows XP. Quote: "More than 75,000 people have signed InfoWorld's "Save XP" petition in the three weeks since it was launched - many with passionate, often emotional pleas to not be forced to make a change."

Bill Gates is software's Dr. Death. If you are pro-life, sign the petition.

The "engineering" of Windows XP was so bad that Windows XP was an enormous hassle until Service Pack 2 was released, 3 years after Windows XP was introduced. Then we got only 3 years of use with less hassle (except for a very large number of software engineering bugs that created vulnerabilities), and now Gates wants to kill it.

Microsoft has proven, over many years, that it does not know how to run a search engine. Buying Yahoo will not magically make Microsoft smarter, especially since Yahoo has proven, over many years, that...

Your post is funny, yes, but it raises serious questions. Recent versions of Adobe products have a DRM activation scheme -- one that apparently requires reading/writing an unallocated sector of the hard drive (which can cause problems for RAID systems). One would hope that Linux would not automatically allow access to the whole disk, so how is Wine working around it?

(And: how is this any more legal than running a purchased-then-cracked version? I'd love to see what would happen when the BSA does a license check on Google while they're running Photoshop under this setup...)

Comment on your sig: Since when have facts, logic, and rationality been part of Microsoft's management policies?

For example, things are so bad with Windows Vista that InfoWorld, one of the most respected IT publications, is running a Save Windows XP campaign.

By my count, we are probably dealing with as many as eight, maybe even nine, unexplained cut or damaged undersea cables within the last week, and not the mere three or four that most mainstream news media outlets in the United States are presently reporting. Given all this cable-cutting mayhem in the last several days, who knows but what there may possibly be other cut and/or damaged cables that have not made it into the news cycle, because they are lost in the general cable-cutting noise by this point. Nevertheless, let me enumerate what I can, and keep in mind, I am not pulling these out of a hat; all of the sources are referenced at the conclusion of the article; you can click through and look at all the evidence that I have. It's there if you care to read through it all 1) one off of Marseille, France 2) two off of Alexandria, Egypt 3) one off of Dubai, in the Persian Gulf 4) one off of Bandar Abbas, Iran in the Persian Gulf 5) one between Qatar and the UAE, in the Persian Gulf 6) one in the Suez, Egypt 7) one near Penang, Malaysia 8) initially unreported cable cut on 23 January 2008 (Persian Gulf?)

The article includes the following links as references to document the above list of believed cuts:

1) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1202064573279&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
2) http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/business/?id=24186
3) http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February121.xml&section=theuae
4) http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080202132053.iohfg5ob&show_article=1
5) http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2153455.htm
6) http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i03tUdyj8wf2Xa9P4trWEjqAJdyQ
7) http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510132-internet-problems-continue-with-fourth-cable-break?ln=en
8) http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=7980
9) https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean
10) http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/?iref=hpmostpop
11) http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/04/technology/cables.php
12) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
13) http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/31/Cut-cable-disrupts-Internet-in-Middle-East_1.html
14)

The main reason is that they have the whole school going on Blackboard, and most assignments are submitted online.

Yea for some of my classes we had to submit all our work online. However colleges can still use an open format, simply there's no reason to require .docx or any other proprietary document format.

Yes, OO.o saves in Word format, but it doesn't always look the same and it defaults to .odt, which I'm sure would be a pain in the ass because most people wouldn't think to change the type every time.

By using OO.org colleges can save money, even colleges pay for Office. So what if there's costs to switch to OO.org, there's also costs to switch to the new version of Office. They both require users to be trained to use them. And colleges should be training, when they aren't educating students, to be able to work with the rest of the world. And there are many countries who's population can afford MS products. In countries like China and India MS has to practically give Windows and Office away free, well not really free but at tremendously reduced costs. I'm not sure about the "R", Russia, in "BRIC", but in Brazil, India, and China open source is growing. MS has to use bribery to get public officials to use Windows or Office. And despite what complaints people in the US make they have to be able to work in the international arena.

We never ever criticize our heroes ever.

The difference you seem to be missing here is that Steve Jobs only occasionally does a boneheaded thing like this against his fan base. Bill Gates only occasionally doesn't.

just wondering, is Sun actually planning on altering the licences ? or was it just a purchase ? for my the mysql database and extras are prefect and would not want to change to another database because of licence issues. Or is Sun just trying to cheese of Oracle etc.. I found this a interesting read http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html

Burton are Microsoft boosters from way back.

They did a hatchet jobon Google for MS not so long ago, and when they're not slandering Microsoft competitors, they're out flogging Sharepoint Services.

How long is it going to be before Bush sends US diplomats to intervene on Microsoft's behalf again?

Here is the article, though it is limited to the high-end Symmetrix. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/14/EMC-will-replace-disks-with-solid-state-drives_1.html I wonder if we could do the same thing with a few dozen thumb drives.

Better article here:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/11/Dont-upgrade-to-Vista_1.html

Also, follow the article's links. New York extended their deadline to submit public comments to Friday January 18th.

http://www.oft.state.ny.us/oftnews/erecords-study.htm#Part_II_-_Detailed_Questions

As usual, the Slashdot community will jump any distance to the conclusion that Microsoft sucks.

First, this 100 million number is ambiguous at best. One might assume that Gates included all sales in that figure, including volume licensing deals. This, however, seems to conflict with numbers that have already been published. For instance, as of October 2007, Microsoft said they sold 88 million copies of Vista, in *addition* to 42 million volume licensing purchases. See: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/26/88-million-copies-of-Vista-shipped_1.html

The 89 million number cited for XP must have included volume licensing sales as well, because Microsoft's press release regarding the sales of XP during the first year of availability explicitly states that XP sold 67 million copies on new PCs *and* via retail upgrades.

In other words, XP was sold on, at absolute most, about 50% of new PCs in 2002. It was actually probably a bit less than this because the 67 million licenses *included* upgrades.

So, if we assume that Gates was talking about the sales of Vista on new PCs (not upgrades), and we factor in the 20% quarterly sales growth that Vista sales have seen since it was released, we get about 105 million units sold. This represents about 41% of all new PCs shipped, world wide. This number doesn't even account for the holiday season's affect on sales.

In order for sales to be identical to XP, we only need for 14% of people who bought XP during the first year to have bought it as a upgrade. I would say that's a pretty reasonable hypothesis. If you don't find that to be reasonable, PCs with Vista only need to sell at about double the rate during the holiday season as they sell during the rest of the year in order for Vista to hit that 50% mark. Either way, if you mix each of these factors, it becomes very easy for the Vista sales numbers to pan out in Vista's favor.

Furthermore, I was unable to find the data that shows where all those new PC purchases were coming from. The fastest growing PC market is Asia, especially China. Studies have shown that the piracy rate in China is over 90%. We have no idea how this information affected Vista sales overall. (Although, honestly, probably not much.)

It's certainly possible that Vista sales aren't as good as XP's, but we don't have that data yet, and it's definitely not the blowout that this article suggests. The data we do have suggests that Vista sales are about the same as XP as a percentage of total PC sales.

Yeah, I mean, what are the chances a backwards nation like India could ever be sophisticated enough to use computers? What are they going to do, compete with programmers in Silicon Valley over the Internet? Ha! They'll never recoup a $100 investment that way!

The NYT quotes Nansolar's founder and CEO Martin Roscheisen saying, "With a $1-per-watt panel, it is possible to build $2-per-watt systems." That $2-per-watt figure comes from the Energy Department, the cost of building a new coal plant.

source

The future is here, and it isn't nuclear.

the AP provides the obligatory Moore's-Law-is-ending, no-it-isn't article.

Not really-- if you're AMD, Moore's Law and Murphy's Law are kind of becoming the same thing.

Troll, FUD, Flamebait, wow guys get some original material or shut up already. I didn't find anything directly on update.microsoft.com but a very quick google search will show you just how "secure" Microsoft keeps their own shit.

http://www.news.com/2100-7349_3-6085589.html
http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/227/31/
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6085589.html
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/11/03/001103hnhacker.html
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/10/ms.taiwan.idg/index.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,2086058,00.htm

There are many more but I'm not really in the mood for doing other folks homework for them.

...Is that really enough for local law enforcement to go along with it?...

But Apple has every opportunity to introduce OTHER iPhone models that aren't under contract with AT&T.

I'll repeat my original post:

Not while AT&T is the only provider.

If they figure out some way around the 5-year contract (with a new model, or whatever), great. But until that happens, the iPhone is just not that relevant.

It's in the design, usability, and functionality.

Personally I'm not impressed with the touch-screen technology. I find the virtual keyboard makes the iPhone pretty unusable for anything but consuming media. Put a real keyboard on it and it might be worth something to me. So its a decent music player, phone, photo browser, e-mail reader, web viewer, etc. But if I want to actually send a text message, e-mail, or type into a web form its a pain in the ass. And I'm not the only one who has a problem with this. All I want is a simple phone that is comfortable and quick to text message with. I want a phone that's a communication device, not a consuming device. The iPhone can't do the one thing I care about well. Sure, what I want doesn't represent everyone, but still I'm one person who doesn't want an iPhone.

I heard that you should never use ATI with AMD, because they would be releasing a new hardware DRM, that will lock out your access to the framebuffer, as described here http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcurve_1.html does anyone have any idea if the AM3 contains such DRM?

Link to viewer-friendly version of the actual article

By "viewer friendly" I mean the link provided for printing the article, by which I mean the one without ads on it. Couldn't the Slashdot editors have done this for us? Seriously, instead Slashdot links to a lame blog with lame commentary about the actual story? If you want to link to that, the right way is to say "Here's the (link) STORY and here's some (link) COMMENTARY". Ferkrissake.

There was a time on Slashdot when, when the link went somewhere other than the article, we could count on one of the very first posts being a link to the actual article. Sometimes those posters got modded as karma whores, but they were doing a valuable service, the service which I'm providing now. I will forgo the karma and post anon, but I sure wish we could regain that Slashdot norm.

-Myopic

If I'm reading the article they linked to:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/02/Two-charged-with-hacking-PeopleSoft-to-fix-grades_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/02/Two-charged-with-hacking-PeopleSoft-to-fix-grades_1.html

Two people in california hacked a machine in utah. So that's how the feds got called in.

So I think there's really no story here - they did something that brought a federal charge. Nobody's been sentenced yet, let's see what the judge says before they get punished.

-Jeff

They're 29 and 28 years old and STILL in college!

Link to the full story

Here's the article at InforWorld.

Where I once worked we had a couple of student workers change their own grades, one caught after she had been accepted at University of Michigan, for which she was undoubtably given a right boot in the arse from them after we notified them she had changed her grade. She may well have displaced the next student in line, who was now elsewhere or changed majors as a result of not being accepted. Certain schools only take so many into a programme each year.

The consequences of changing grades can be dire. How about someone receiveing an engineering degree who doesn't really have the solid math background required, but had a friend who worked in the college records office.

We also sacked a student who changed her grades so she could continue to receive financial aid. Hurts nobody, right? Wrong. How about the student who deserved it but all the money in the scholarship fund was given to others, including the one who falsified records.

I, too, doubt the judge would make an example of them. It will probably be a fine and some community service, along with the stain on their records for being convicted of a crime, which would doubtfully make a positive impression upon prospective employers, unless Enron and Arthur Anderson were still in business.

As to this article, Seems a bit of a "slow news day" post. Why not something about how Martial Law in Pakistan has resulted in severed internet connections and how people might be coping.

ah wikipedia links, because nobody astroturfs wikipedia, especially not pro-corporate IP lobbyists

Unless you count the Asus EEEPC, which (depending on the model) has either 2, 4 or 8 Gig drives that come with Linux. They don't run Vista, but they do come with instructions & drivers for installing XP.

I'm sure Dell & such would follow suit much sooner if M$ would let them load XP instead of Vista, but Dell isn't afraid of Linux and will even be introducing solid state 32G laptops (I'm assuming running some sort of Windows) soon.

It seems like Microsoft is being forced to open up their desktop search to allow third party companies to use theirs (like Google Desktop) in place of it. We'll have to wait for SP1 though.

... to place the information that the upcoming world leading DCOS is very green.

CC.

Comcast also limits or eliminates VPN traffic unless you have a business account. I've used it with limited success and finally realized they're going to make you pay the extra $50 if you want complete VPN access. Find out about it here.

Comcast - We will control all that you see and hear

"Who controls the content of Wikipedia articles? Is it a large crowd of seemingly random contributors each imparting their own bits of wisdom? Or is it a small set of contributors providing the base of an article with a few mostly minor revisions submitted by random people passing by? In my experience, it's the latter. Usually a small set of people, no more than 3 to 5 which make the core of a Wikipedia article."

You obviously haven't seen the lovely documentary created that revolves around the evolution of the Wikipedia article: Heavy Metal umlaut

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html

Mmmmh well, about the lying, isn't it some kind of nasty crime to in court? as in under oath of something in the USA?
and secondly, if she did all that trickery, wouldn't it be plausible that she did shared *knowing* that it was illegal?

I know we all here are all about blasting the RIAA, but this was a jury veredict of independent people. And as the guy said in the article, they wanted to send YOU the message "STOP PIRATING MUSIC OR YOU WILL GET FUCKED". In the long term, it might help as people will see that something *does* happen after downloading illegally and they will stop committing such crimes.

Do not misunderstand me, I am as anti-RIAA as anyone else here (and maybe more... I was the guy who compiled the first list of Sony CDs with rootkits) but it seems quite clear that she committed a crime and if you see it, the fines are in the "low" side of the possible spectrum (from $750 to $150,000). Just consider she could have faced a $3'600,000 fine... now THAT would be outrageous.

I found it, it was samsung over a year ago... http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/17/78429_HNhybriddrive_1.html?DISK-BASED%20BACKUP%20APPLIANCES

I remember when IBM used to be a great company that made quality products. The people there were devoted to IBM, and IBM to them. They were a good corporate system, and stood behind rock, solid quality products.

Then people left, and standards dropped. They got into cheap and nasty manufacturing (The IBM "DeathStar" Hard Drives), and knowingly kept selling defective hard drives. The old IBM would have never done that. Now they don't even make PCs anymore. All that's left is just another outsourcing company, at that, one that fires workers whenever they want to boost their share price. Their CEO is rumoured to be readying to fire workers and transfer the bulk of jobs to India. This is why outsourcing is so important to them.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/04/HNpalmisanoindia_1.html

The guy you are thinking of is Mark Lucovsky and he does now work for Google.

But if you compare it to Windows, it looks very open, and open source friendly.

Sorry, but as long as OSX refuses to install on anything but Apple hardware it doesn't look open to me at all. I fail to see why it should matter whether or not it's partly derived from an open source distribution.

Every app in OS X can create PDF files, for free.

And so would Office 2007 had Adobe not threatened to take legal action.

I don't see Microsoft giving away Visual Studio

You probably haven't been looking?

Funny how a submission about how great Eclipse is makes it to the front page, but a submission about Netbeans winning best open source IDE for 2007 is left off.

Why is this modded down? It is legally correct. For a fairly good description of why the GPL is NOT a contract (but is still enforceable) see http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/06/enforcing_the_g.html

yes, of course.

WHERE ARE THE SPECIFICATIONS YOU LIERS FROM ATI? YOU'VE PROMISSED THEM AT LEAST A YEAR AGO !!

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/02/32OPcurve_1.html
Cite :
"AMD is strongly considering open-sourcing at least a functional subset of ATIs graphics drivers. Its time for X Window System, OpenGL, and client virtualization for which ATI binary drivers arent available to escape the ghetto of the 1980s-era framebuffer. And what a boon for PR. If AMDs graphics cards were the only ones with open device drivers, it might affect a buying decision or two."

What's interesting is where there wasn't a winner. One area, Enterprise Monitoring, the editors decided that they couldn't arrive at a conclusion for. So no winner - just officially putting HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli "on notice".

Check out the article: http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/07/09/10/37FE-boss-enterprise-monitoring_1.html

Full disclosure: I work for one of the, um, finalists/threats mentioned in the article. Hyperic http://www.hyperic.com/. That said, I know they are doing a review of our product. I guess they will announce it later... another way for the BOSSIEs to just keep on keepin on...

There seem to be some inconsistencies in the awards, under the open source awards, Ubuntu win best client operating system award, but under best platforms, SuSE linux Enterprise wins the Best Linux Desktop award.

Best Client Operating System Award:
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/09/114-best_of_open_so-3.html

Best Linux Desktop Award:
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/01/29-2007_technology-7.html

There seem to be some inconsistencies in the awards, under the open source awards, Ubuntu win best client operating system award, but under best platforms, SuSE linux Enterprise wins the Best Linux Desktop award.

Best Client Operating System Award:
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/09/114-best_of_open_so-3.html

Best Linux Desktop Award:
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/01/29-2007_technology-7.html