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For 2008 media will create Red Hat-Ubuntu war

For 2008 media will create Red Hat-Ubuntu warRed Hat vs. Canonical"Running a business is not a religious exercise." Hmmm. I'm not sure a majority of CEOs would agree.Not a trend, just Matt Hartley under deadlineI am a former Mad Penguin writer who produced a number of Slashdotted and Dugg articles...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Adam Doxtater, Red Hat-Ubuntu war, Red Hat-Ubuntu, Canonical, media, PulseAudio

Discussion threads 2007-12-31

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FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual

Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Terracotta buys Quartz

Open source Java clustering software developer Terracotta announced its intent to buy an open source job scheduler known as Quartz. The integration of Quartz into Terracotta's platform will ease high availability job scheduling and scaling applications to multiple nodes, the company said. Quartz is currently integrated into...

Tags: Job, Clustering, Terracotta, Quartz, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Bugzilla 3.4.4 (Mac)

Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org (250,000 entries), Gnome, Red Hat and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and web, xml, email and console interfaces....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Console, Bugzilla, E-mail, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Apple Mac OS X, Online Communications, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-11-18

News to know: HP-3Com; AMD; Google; Blockbuster; Bing 2.0

News to know intro: Sam Diaz: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook Larry Dignan: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante John Morris: AMD updates roadmap, promises "supercomputer in your lap" ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Blockbuster Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Games, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-11-12

Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 will run on Linux

Red Hat created a bit of stir recently when it shipped its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers product because the management component runs on a Window server.  That's right -- no Linux support. The platform is an enhancement of the former Qumranet's KVM-based platform, which was designed for...

Tags: Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Server, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-11-11

New tool aids .Net developers in writing Linux, Mac OS X apps

Windows only applications will be a thing of the past before long.We could also use some good tools for porting general Win32 apps to Mac and Linux using WineLib.Agree, but, for the transition, these kinks of tools will helpNTmore reasons to avoid NovellThese proprietary apps that work only with M$...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Operating systems, tool, Linux, Microsoft .NET, Mac OS X app, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Enterprises saving $26 million per project with open source

Using Only COCOMO Seriously FlawedIt assumes that every component would be developed from scratch for every project instead of being commercially licensed or re-used from another in-house project.A MySQL license purchased from Sun is much less expensive than recreating MySQL.Wow that's such total crap I'd be amazed if anyone believed...

Tags: Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

VMware's desktop moves

That's all well and good Dan, but...The bigger picture isn't about VMware, a proprietary product.What is revving up to be the King of Hypervisors is:KVMYep.Take note all you VM'ers.You only need to try this Type 1 Hypervisor just once with Red Hat's Virt-Manager GUI Console to calibrate an understanding.In twenty-five...

Tags: Virtualization, desktop, Take Note, KVM, Dan, VMware Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Open source needs successful champions

The open-source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success and attract funding and participation in open source, according to Red Hat's CEO. The open-source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success and attract funding and participation in open source, according to the chief executive of Red Hat. ...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Champion, open source, Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, Victoria Ho ZDNet Asia

News items 2009-11-05

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers

RHEL is the standard of Linux distro'sRHEL is the defacto standard for the Enterprise and small business.Secure, Reliable and Robust the ultimate server OS.And this transcends to virtualization how?MS IS the defacto standard. Yet Hyper-V has a long long way to go.

Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Servers, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Utility computing, Storage management, defacto, virtualization, server, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers

Red Hat is attempting to use KVM as a weapon to defeat VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Oracle and the like. Organizations will need proof that it is better. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Server, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Oracle's Virtualization Story

Kool-aid?Looks like someone has been drinking the kool-aid. Let's be clear, Oracle's distro is a rip-off of RedHat's, albeit behind a year or so, plus patches to help their RDBMS that may not be accepted in the upstream projects. Don't let Oracle fool you, the core engineers are...

Tags: virtualization, Oracle Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden

Hat tip to Danny Sullivan for pointing out the above panel at Web 2.0 Summit, which featured Robert Thomson, Wall Street Journal chief, and Marrissa Mayer head of search products at Google, plus Martin Nisenholtz, The New York Times Company, and Eric Hippeau from the Huffington Post, moderated by...

Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Journalist, Thomson Corp., Internet, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Give Jim Whitehurst his due and proper

Red Hat wasn't broke when Whitehurst came in, and they're just keeping on. The had another good quarter, the stock has more than doubled in value this year, and the market cap is now over $5 billion. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Market Capitalization, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Windows and Office cash cows take a hit in Microsoft's first quarter

BURN BABY BURNNice to see Microsoft start the downward spiral.Don't get too happy...Every company has a blip in its future - just wait until the next quarter.When you're on top the only way is down.Happened to all those on top at some point....IBMNovellGMLotusLike so many other companies?But then again, the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NOW IT, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

SCO story ends with a whimper

William Shakespear should have expanded on his "first ... the lawyers" bit!It is hard to feel sorry for people who go crying all the way to the bank!BAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!Good riddance.Someone remind meThis turned out exactly how Bitty/No Ax predicted, right?: o )SCO Xenix & UnixRather sad that their expertise at delivering...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, SCO Group Inc., BSD, Linux, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Red Hat: Quiet winner amid Sun's server apocalypse?

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Tags: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., server

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

The best protection for software assets

Support and development."You have to reveal your invention. The rights don?t last that long."They do last too long, frankly. Software technology changes very fast. Most products are well beyond the end of their life cycle by the time a patent expires. Pretty much all of our IP stuff is way...

Tags: asset, patent, Fight Club, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-09