Big move for open source software..."IBM on Thursday will tout a big cloud computing win. Consumer electronics giant Panasonic will migrate a total of 300,000 employees and partners off of Microsoft Exchange and other collaboration technologies to Big Blue’s LotusLive platform.
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IBM's Big Win: Panasonic Dumps Exchange, Moves to LotusLive Cloud Services
Submitted ZDNet on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 17:11.
Tagged with LotusLive | Operations-SystemAdministration
Another Area of Linux Growth
Thanks to tech like Moblin and Android, netbooks, smartbooks, and smartphones are all the rage right now for consumers, but Linux is also showing up on the very sales counters where all of these devices are being bought.
While there's no denying the rise of Linux on these consumer systems, there's been a rather quiet but steady rise in Linux deployments on point-of-service (or point-of-sale) systems.
Retail systems are an interesting niche for Linux... one where the free operating system has historically done well.
Submitted on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 21:02.
Terracotta Polishes Quartz Job Scheduler
A new Java tool is now available..."Having bolted the open source Ehcache Java caching software it bought to its Java application clustering environment, Terracotta has now added the Quartz job scheduler it acquired as 2009 was winding down.
Submitted Community Manager on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 15:18.
Virtual Machines are No Security Blanket
How secure are virtual platforms?"I’m asked at least three or four times a year about virtual machines and security. Invariably, the dialog goes something like this from a colleague I’ll refer to as Jim:
Submitted on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 18:30.
Avoid Trap Of Proprietary Cloud Tooling: Use Simple API
Maintaining standards in cloud development..."What's the first thing you should do if you're thinking of developing software for cloud computing? At ZendCon, Zend Technologies user group yesterday, three members of a five member panel answered the same way: adopt Simple Cloud API, the open source cloud services interface.
Submitted InformationWeek on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 13:57.
Cloud Computing Too Costly in the Long Term?
During their own Sept. 29 Cloud Computing Summit, IDC made what at first glance sounded like a self-defeating statement: clouds, in the long run, are actually a more expensive option than a company running its own datacenter.
That, needless to say, got my attention.
Submitted on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 21:20.
Linux Succeeds Across the Board
Linux is doing, in a word, great.There are several areas where Linux and open source software are doing great, especially in the new technologies where open source encourages innovation:
Submitted on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 18:48.
C++, the GPU, and Thrust: Sorting Numbers on the GPU
Version 1.0 of Thrust was released in May 2009 and is available under the Apache License version 2.0. There is a NOTICE file which also contains the Boost license and a small paragraph by Hewlett-Packard Company. So it appears there is really a mixture of open source licenses applied to the Thrust library. Thrust is completely implemented in header files, so installation for development consists of downloading the zip file and expanding it somewher... [more]
Submitted on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 14:31.
Simple API Is Part Of A Rising And Open Tide To The Cloud
Moving towards cross-cloud APIs..."What's notable about the open source project announced yesterday, Simple API for cloud computing, are the names that are present, IBM, Microsoft and Rackspace, and the names that are not: Amazon, for one, is not a backer, and let's just stop right there.
Submitted InformationWeek on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 13:57.
RHEL 5.4 Story Avoids Sad Vendor Lock-In Ending for Clouds
The big news coming out of Red Hat for this year's Red Hat Summit is, at first blush, a little anti-climatic. The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 seems like just another point release for an already stable and successful operating system. A few more bells and whistles, but not much to get users carried away.
Submitted on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 20:40.
Tagged with Red Hat | RHEL 5.4 | virtualization | Operations-SystemAdministration | Porting issues | Porting utilities