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Rx for Linux: Part 3 - Licensing clarity

One of the problems Joe Junior IT manager faces when contemplating Linux is that there's no obvious clarity in OS and licensing policy. Linux is free, but costs $799 per year per machine. As in, huh? In comparision Microsoft's position is clear: everything has a price, on which some people...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Linux

Blog posts 2005-10-19

Performance of the IBM System p5 520, 550 and 550Q

The IBM System p5 520, 550 and 550Q are the latest IBM POWER5 processor-based servers designed for commercial and high performance compute-intensive workloads. The p5-520 and p5-550 servers are 2-way and 4-way Dual-Chip Module systems running at 1.9 GHz while the p5-550Q is 4-way and 8-way 1.5 GHz Quad-Core Module...

Tags: Performance, IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, IBM AIX 5L, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2005-10-04

Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS to Achieve Highly Available, Load-Balanced Clusters

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS operating system integrates Cluster Manager and IP Load Balancing, the features that improve cluster functionality. This white paper describes how these features can be combined with Dell PowerEdge servers and other components to achieve high availability and high performance in clusters. A cluster running...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Red Hat Inc., Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2003-11-01

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Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals

RE: Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goalsSabayon Linux is a better linux and no one ever talks about it. You get up and running right after installing Sabayon Unlike Ubuntu. All of your plugin's are already in place and running from the jump. It's really good for people who...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Linux, Ubuntu, desktop, distro, Sabayon Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears

As Microsoft gets set to launch Windows 7,  Linux desktop vendors are trying to make some waves. Yesterday, IBM and Canonical announced availability of a cloud and Linux-based business desktop alternative for existing PCs or low cost netbooks. The IBM Client for Smart Work...

Tags: Ubuntu, Fedora Project, SuSE, IBM Corp., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, E-mail, Web Browsers, Software, Online Communications, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Seeking a Stallman for open source

Stallman is for OSS what Washington was for USAWe need more people like Stallman to liberate us from the M$ tirany not Benedict Arnolds like Icaza!We need to speek louder about M$ dirty deeds not to seek peace with the devil.Stallman is a liberalJust thought LinuxGeek ought to know that....

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Stallman, open source, Icaza, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

News to know: Verizon's Pre; Tornado; IDF; iPhone MMS; RedHat; Gmail outage

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Verizon says no to Palm Pre Andrew Mager: Tornado: The real-time web server from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, MMS, Red Hat Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., E-mail Providers, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expense

Red Hat's fiscal second quarter results were solid across the board as the company continues to poach operating system market share even though server sales are weak. Simply put, you can't extrapolate Red Hat's results to other enterprise software vendors. Red Hat's continued growth is at the...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Red Hat Enterprise Linux leads the way with web applications

Independent tests performed under industry benchmark standards find that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading platform for running web servers--as well as Java applications and other large-scale online transaction processing tools in popular use by Internet vendors. Red Hat also confers additional benefits in the form of cost...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc., Web Application, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2009-09-01

Xen.org: Stop the forking. Forrester: About time

Xen.org, the open source community behind the leading IaaS cloud computing hypervisor finally made a bold move today by stepping up to the plate of delivering a complete open source virtual infrastructure for cloud platforms. Prior to this release, Xen.org had been content to manage and maintain the core Xen...

Tags: Hypervisor, Xen, About Time Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Xen.org, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-08-31

VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem

VMware's purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., SpringSource, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2

It's been a while since we've had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner. Some of you may be aware that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 (Which is due...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Distribution, Mouse, Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, SLES, LinuxIC, OpenSUSE 11.1, ENTER, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-09

CentOS: Getting Their S#!t Together is a Top Priority

The CentOS developers were ready to burn the place down if their AWOL project founder didn't show up and resolve several outstanding issues that put the popular Open Source project and Linux distribution at risk. For those of us in the "Inside Baseball'...

Tags: Developer, Project, Red Hat Inc., Domain, Founder, CentOS, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-02

Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?

Microsoft's decison to release 20,000 lines of device driver code under GPLv2 is viewed as a big deal but not that surprising given the context. After all, the only technology Microsoft fears more than Linux is VMware's bare-metal virtualization platform. The release of the three device drivers...

Tags: Device Driver, Microsoft Corp., GPL 2, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Frugal Friday: Hewlett-Packard Tech Support, Amazon as "Big Brother", Apollo 11 40th Anniversary, Scientific Linux

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I talk about my experience with Hewlett-Packard's service and support, Amazon's "Big Brother" approach to Kindle digital content rights management, the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and talk with Troy Dawson, one of the lead developers of Scientific...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Amazon.com Inc., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Google on offense: Chrome OS is a wager on the future of computing

Google on offense: Chrome OS is a wager on the future of computingThis was a move to ...... put the IT industry on hold the way Microsoft has done for years.Now it's, let's wait and see what Google is going to come out with.Anticipation is making you wait? That's...

Tags: Operating systems, OpenOffice, NOW IT, Google Inc., Chrome, Chrome OS, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Reductive to service Puppet open source configman tools

Key founders of Puppet have incorporated and received $2 million in venture capital funding to advance the open source configuration management software project. Reductive Labs,  which has evolved from the same named consulting firm founded in 2003, will provide training, service and support for Puppet, the next...

Tags: Open Source, Configuration Management, Tool, Reductive, Puppet 0.25, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the States

Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the StatesAgreed, with one minor point difference . . .I believe that the reason you're seeing what you are in China is that since most Windows installations are pirated copies, they get no support. And if you're going to have no support, might...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux/Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Linux, minor player, open source

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta testing

It was a big day for Xen and a big day for the other open source virtualizatio hypervisor as well. Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform -- including a standalone hypervisor,  virtualization manager for servers and virtualization manager for the desktop -- moved into beta testing on Tuesday....

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Xen, KVM, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-16

News to know: Yahoo CFO; Oracle's Java; iPhone 3G S specs; EC2 outage

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Yahoo names Tim Morse as new CFO Larry Dignan: Can Oracle give Java a boost (and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-06-12