The Economy and Tech

Well needless to say the economy has everyone hard and hard on a global way. Different countries have been reporting problems left and ride, even the field of IT and Services that are IT centeric. An more companies are looking for free and or open source alternatives to ease the already tight budgets. Companies are looking at such applications like Vertualbox and VMware server to run More then one Operating System on less hardware. Also a few companies are even making the big switch to Linux and or Unix based operating systems. An many new technologies are coming out so rapidly, that some companies are taking advantage of these new technologies. One in particular is a new file system developed by Sun Microsystems called ZFS. Which will be in the Apple Inc Servers and rumors are going around that it will trickle down to Apples Desktops and Laptops.


Also ZFS will be showing up in a few "nix" operating systems, the Linux kernel will have read capabilities and several Unix operating systems will have full ZFS. Some distributions that will have ZFS is FreeNAS (a fork of FreeBSD a Unix based Operating System, that deals with with Network Attatched Storage), now going back to th e economy. An also users are taking a big hit too, finding themselves with less money coming into the household, so looking to free and open source software only makes sense. Even if you just pay for a close source operating systems like Windows or Apple anyone can load up their computers with free and open source programs, like for example openoffice, firefox, thunderbird and the list goes on.