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Red Hat announces SAP-certified mainframe apps —
Feb. 05, 2008 —
People have been predicting the death of the mainframe for more years than the mainframe has been around. Thanks to Linux, though, the mainframe is as strong as ever, and now Red Hat has announced ...
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Linux on mainframes made easy —
Feb. 04, 2008 —
Linux and mainframes go together like ham and eggs. Linux virtual machines were reviving the mainframe market before most IT administrators knew anything about virtualization. ...
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Why companies don't support Debian —
Jan. 30, 2008 —
Opinion -- At a recent Australian Linux conference, Sam Varghese reported that two Debian developers pointed out that the Debian Project needs more corporate support for "men, money and machines" to advance the operating system. They're right. It does. ...
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SpringSource is springing forward —
Jan. 29, 2008 —
Chances are that most of you haven't heard of SpringSource. Even in open-source developer circles, it's not that well-known a name. That's about to change. ...
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openSUSE Build Service now supports Red Hat and CentOS —
Jan. 29, 2008 —
Say, you're a software developer. Say, you want to write an easy-to-install program for any Linux distribution. I'd say, "You have a problem." OpenSUSE, however, has improved upon its solution for this problem: the openSUSE Build Service, which now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. ...
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SCO's day of reckoning is set —
Jan. 22, 2008 —
On April 29, SCO will finally have its day in court, but not exactly in the way the Unix and Linux litigation company had planned. ...
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Shuttleworth urged to normalize Ubuntu branding —
Jan. 17, 2008 —
An open letter to Mark Shuttleworth urges the Ubuntu founder and leader to normalize branding around the popular open source distribution. "Given the already fragmented nature of Linux, why fragment a specific distribution unnecessarily?" writes embedded industry consultant and website publisher Rick Lehrbaum, on his DeviceGuru blog. ...
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Who says you can't use Active Directory with Linux? —
Jan. 15, 2008 —
Like it or lump it, Microsoft's Active Directory is the heart of many corporate networks. That, however, doesn't mean that Linux and Mac systems can't work and play with Active Directory. With Samba, they can. And, with Likewise, Linux and Mac can work and play well with Active Directory. ...
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Coverity secures 11 open-source projects —
Jan. 08, 2008 —
Coverity is updating the Web site it runs that enables developers to run their code against the company's automated software quality tools to identify and fix security vulnerabilities. ...
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Mozilla Taps New CEO —
Jan. 08, 2008 —
First Red Hat turned to Delta for its new CEO. Now Mozilla has appointed John Lilly its new CEO. While Lilly has some time in at Mozilla, most of his past has been spent in proprietary software companies. ...
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OpenVZ to release pre-made Ubuntu VMs —
Jan. 04, 2008 —
OpenVZ Project, the open-source community branch of SWsoft, the virtualization company behind Parallels and Virtuozzo, will release on Jan. 8 pre-made Ubuntu 7.10 server and desktop virtual machines. ...
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After SCO dies —
Jan. 04, 2008 —
It's going to happen. Some time in 2008, SCO will finally stop thrashing on the floor and die. Will it be Novell draining it dry of its last financial resources in the U.S. District Court in Utah? ...
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A more open Microsoft —
Jan. 03, 2008 —
Opinion -- You might have missed the news just before the holidays that Microsoft has become slightly more open with respect to its networking protocols. Late last year, they announced a way for third parties to license their core file sharing protocols through an independent organization called the Protocol Freedom ...
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xTuple Network aims to ease open-source ERP concerns —
Jan. 02, 2008 —
Open-source ERP software developer xTuple on Nov. 3 will launch a new three-tiered network service, the xTuple Network. Dubbed XTN for short, the network is essentially a suite of managed services designed to help users better maintain and upgrade their xTuple enterprise resource planning applications. ...
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Debian 4.0 gets security update —
Jan. 02, 2008 —
No operating system, no not even Linux, is ever completely secure. So it is that the Debian Project released on Dec. 27 its second update to Debian 4.0, Etch, with an eye to improved security. ...
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Glub, glub: SCO drops off the Nasdaq —
Dec. 28, 2007 —
In the almost five years since SCO launched its attack on Linux and IBM, open-source and legal experts have predicted that SCO would fail and the company would collapse with its lawsuits. That day is one day closer at hand. ...
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