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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Red Hat extends support options for enterprises; Intel/McAffee and open source

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Red Hat extends support options for enterprises
Julie Bort: Red Hat today announced that it will offer enterprises the option to extend their support contracts from seven years to as long as 10 years. Read More


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Choosing the Right Active Directory Bridge Solution
What do you need to know when evaluating AD bridge solutions? In this Quest Software white paper, discover the questions to ask when choosing the best solution for your company. Don't waste time and money with systems that don't play well together! Read More

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Planning Guide: SAP to Red Hat Migration
Lower costs and improve performance migrating SAP to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Download this guide today and discover how you can perform a basic installation and migration in less than 1 day. Examine pre- and post-migration considerations and other upfront planning topics to help avoid potential problems. Read more

Does Intel Buying McAfee Have Any Impact On Open Source
Alan Shimel: The big news in tech today is of course Intel buying McAfee, in a deal valued at about 7.7 billion dollars. That is a lot of money to pay! Read More

U.K. releases its first contribution to Drupal
Amy Vernon: The U.K. government has just released its first contribution to the Drupal community. The CKAN module is what the folks behind Data.gov.uk developed to take all the data stored in their CKAN system and publish it on its Drupal site. Read More

Be A Community Manager
Stephen Spector: I have been talking with various open source community leaders as well as general purpose community managers about who is the most important part of a community. I'd like your input, too. Read More

Crowd Computing: Sounds Dangerous To Me
Alan Shimel: A new open source project promises to harness two of the most hyped technologies out there. Crowd Sourcing meets Cloud Computing for Crowd Computing. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc.

Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce
This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More

Curriki: Bringing the open source model to education
Amy Vernon: Not only can free, online, open-sourced curriculum and books make education more affordable and widespread - it also can make it fun. So says Scott McNealy, whom you may be more familiar with from his time leading Sun Microsystems. Read More

Reducing Code Risks with Open Source
Eric Gries: In the old days, the commercial licensing model for software was fairly straightforward -- and somewhat risky. Read More

Decorate with Linux
Amy Vernon: In thinking of the great works of Western literature, many books come to mind: "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Bronte. "The Metamorphosis," by Franz Kafka. "Peter Pan," by J.M. Barrie. The ... "Linux Kernel"? Yes. Read More

Ruby on Rails 3.0 due this week
Major upgrade to the open source Web development framework features Merb influences that enable performance improvements Read More


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Data Center Evolution Without Revolution
While many companies understand the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, they struggle to prepare their data center for such a transition. Discover how to avoid a "rip-and-replace" approach by utilizing a phased network architecture upgrade that helps control risk and costs. Read now!

Motorola's Android 2.2 Rollout: What a Mess
Delays, missing features, cease and desist letters, oh my! Verizon's rollout of Android 2.2 to Motorola Droid phones is becoming an exercise in frustration. Read More

Microsoft: 'We love open source'
Steve Ballmer used to call Linux a cancer. Now Microsoft insists it loves open source. Read More

Developers unhappy over Oracle Android suit
But the lawsuit against Google is not likely to affect most Java users Read More

MIT brings super-computing power to the Android phone
MIT has teamed up with TACC to develop a super-computing app for the Android Read More

Windows in the cloud: long boot times, other difficulties not seen with Linux
Running Windows servers in the Amazon cloud may have just gotten a lot easier, but a project by the management vendor RightScale to improve Windows support shows that people who use the Microsoft operating system in cloud networks face difficulties not seen in the Linux world. Read More

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