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Companies really want Linux-savvy employees and they want them now

Do you want a job in IT that you can count on in years to come? Then start polishing up your Linux skills. According to the Linux Foundation and tech job company Dice, in the 2015 Linux Jobs Report,...

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Ted Cruz dot com: A domain name cautionary tale

On March 23rd, Texas Republican senator and Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz announced that he was going to run for president. If you then went running to his website, tedcruz.com, to see what he had to say...

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Canonical CEO Jane Silber resigns

When Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu Linux leader, stepped down as CEO in favor of COO Jane Silber in 2010, no one was too worried. Silber may not have been flashy, but she knew how to keep the...

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Five reasons why Ballmer needed to go

Steve Ballmer is going to retire from Microsoft sometime within the next 12 months. Well, that’s the official story. I think Microsoft’s board finally gave him a choice: Jump or be pushed. Five reasons...

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Back on track again

My apologies for Practical-Tech going dark for so long. I’ve been busy with other projects. I’ll be updating the site shortly with my newest stories and back-filling my older, missing tales. Thanks for...

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Mozilla picks one of its own to be its new CEO

Mozilla’s executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker announced in a blog posting on Monday that the troubled company had finally picked an old hand — Chris Beard — for its new chief executive. Mozilla picks...

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Nadella’s challenge: Saving Microsoft

In my recent debate with Ed Bott over Microsoft’s future, the public bought Ed’s arguments that Microsoft will have a bright, shining future with Satya Nadella as CEO. The judge though gave me the win...

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Red Hat CTO unexpectedly quits, amid rumors of executive ‘friction’

No-one among the rank and file at Red Hat seem to have seen this coming. In a move the Linux giant’s staffers said was “shocking” and a “punch in the gut,” long-time Red Hat chief technology officer...

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Reasons for Red Hat CTO departure still a mystery

t’s still not clear why Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens left the Linux giant. However, it now appears that he left to pursue a new opportunity at a major California-based technology company. With the help of...

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Where DevOps is today

OK, so you get that DevOps is important. Yay you! But how broadly has DevOps been accepted? That’s a darn good question, and IDC and AppDynamics have some answers in their recent report, DevOps and the...

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