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Last Update: Fri Jun 19 21:53:42 2009 | | + Free the Data: eGov and Open Standards +
When President Obama appointed his new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, last week, Kundra announced ambitious plans to “democratize” [...] the sunlight of millions of citizens by encouraging them to scrutinize how the Recovery Act’s dollars will be spent. read more |
| + From Tehran to You Live on Ulitzer: The Wind of Change is Blowing +
I have been waiting for a worthy topic to make my first Ulitzer post and the events taking place in Iran are sweeping the Internet and [...] place in Tehran on June 15th, 2009. My sincere hopes and wishes are with the people of Iran in this tumultuous time. read more |
| + Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Beta Draws Industry Interest +
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) announced that the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products has transitioned to Beta and is [...] offer customers flexibility, operational choice and efficiency, while expanding the market adoption of virtualization. read more |
| + Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop Released on GitHub +
The Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop is tested and deployed on Yahoo!’s clusters, which are the largest Hadoop clusters in the world. [...] Apache Hadoop project. Hadoop is a free Java software framework that supports data intensive distributed applications. read more |
| + Penguin Builds Scyld Management Framework +
Penguin Computing has built a Scyld Integrated Management Framework (IMF) that’s supposed to make it easier to monitor and manage [...] they like. Penguin thinks it’s the first to provide this kind of management extensibility to an HPC cluster. read more |
| + Outsourcing Confidence Index Climbs to Reignite Industry +
The 2009 Black Book "State of the Outsourcing Industry" Report released today announces the trends, buying outlook and insights of [...] strategic outsourcing spending and a 2010 recovery for suppliers that stayed customer-centric through the recession. read more |
| + Learn SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services +
Report Builder 2.0 provides an extremely flexible GUI with user friendly wizards for creating the Tablix data regions, a versatile [...] rich reports can be created or modified using this GUI which can later be managed by the Report Manager front end. read more |
| + Novell Profits Up & It’s Got a New Friend +
By dint of 12% lower operating expenses, Novell managed to more than double its fiscal second-quarter earnings from $5.9 million or [...] 9% to $215.6 million. Revenue from its Linux Platform Products, however, increased 25% year-over-year to $37 million. read more |
| + SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension Demo +
Nearly half of all IT decision makers, developers, and architects report that they use Microsoft .NET as their application technology [...] – a .NET application framework based on the open source Mono technology and powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. read more |
| + Top Challenges for Application Performance Management +
The 2008 Aberdeen Report on Application Performance Management listed the top challenges for Application Performance Management. The [...] my ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC Application? I’ve spent some time in the last weeks playing with different... read more |
| + IBM Survey Claims Linux Desktops Easier to Deploy Than Expected +
IBM is waving around a study that it commissioned from Freeform Dynamics showing that Linux desktops go down better if the right group [...] like transaction workers and general professional workers, folks who “aren’t emotional” about their desktop. read more |
| + Canonical Manages Ubuntu on EC2 +
Landscape 1.3, the upgraded semi-proprietary Ubuntu systems management and monitoring service just released by Canonical, Ubuntu’s [...] running Ubuntu, can now be used to choose Ubuntu images pre-configured by Canonical with a Landscape client on EC2. read more |
| + Netbooks: Take Two +
Intel has been talking up its next Atom processor, code named Pineview, and due out in Q4. Intel says it’s shrunk the number of [...] and graphics on the same piece of silicon it should produce smaller, cheaper, faster devices with better battery life. read more |
| + FSF Finally Wrestles Cisco into Compliance +
Cisco has finally bowed to the demands of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and resolved that suit for copyright infringement that [...] the last 15 years its enforcers have been able to persuade erring companies to come into line without going to court. read more |
| + Canonical Lassos S3 for Live Mesh Knock-Off +
Canonical, the Ubuntu creator looking to make a deflationary buck and apparently thinking of Microsoft’s Live Mesh, is going into [...] proprietary code called Ubuntu One that it just released to its community as an invitation-only beta. read more |
| + TeamDrive Collaboration Solution Expanded to Linux Desktops +
TeamDrive enables users to work across the Internet, securely and easily. Whether you’re working as a team, mobile or between your [...] The new TeamDrive clients support KDE and Gnome desktops on the latest distributions of Feodora, Ubuntu and Suse Linux. read more |
| + Microsoft & Linux Foundation Send Joint Letter of Protest +
Microsoft and the Linux Foundation, the epicenter of the movement that wants to destroy Microsoft, have sent a joint letter to the [...] its draft Principles of the Law of Software Contracts meant to guide judges in interpreting licensing agreements. read more |
| + AT&T & EMC Pair on Cloud Storage +
AT&T has gone into the cloud storage business in competition with services such as Amazon's S3. It said Monday that it signed [...] over the storage, distribution and retrieval of their data from any location, anytime, using any web-enabled device. read more |
| + Are Admins Developers Too? +
My brother (yes, it does run in the family) has a degree in computer science which, by most definitions, makes him a developer. [...] I often did “dual duty” as both sysadmin and developer, depending on where I was and what the organization needed. read more |
| + Linux Foundation Unveils New Linux.com +
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the formal launch [...] via its Ideaforge web tool. Today, it unveils the results of that input and a new online home for all things Linux. read more |
| + MontaVista Supports Texas Instruments OMAP35x Processors +
MontaVista Software has announced that its new MontaVista Linux 6 is optimized for OMAP35x processors from Texas Instruments [...] to tap into a development environment that addresses the specific hardware and end application requirements. read more |
| + Skytap Introduces Budgetary Disciplines +
Skytap Monday put a drag on runaway cloud spending when it initiated cost controls and policy enforcement. Users of its hybrid [...] be able to temper profligate use - like going on vacation without turning an image off - and have charge-back powers. read more |
| + Likewise Closes $10 Million Funding Round +
Coming off its record year, Likewise Software is announcing a $10 million funding round. Earlier this year, the company reported [...] ensures that Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac computers can be integrated securely into a company’s IT infrastructure. read more |
| + The Realities of Cloud Computing +
I’m just finishing up a book on cloud computing and SOA, and found the process of writing the book to be a great catalyst for [...] issues to consider with cloud computing. But cloud computing is not “the end of IT,” nor is it a waste of time. read more |
| + Talking to Simon Wardley About Ubuntu and Cloud Computing +
Most readers of this blog are probably well aware that a new version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution is coming this week, and that it [...] the creation of private Clouds that look remarkably like Amazon’s EC2. You’ve probably also [...] read more |
| + Linux Foundation Announces LinuxCon Keynotes +
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced confirmed [...] matters Linux." The event takes place September 21 - 23, 2009 in Portland, Oregon at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront. read more |
| + MySQL Journal Launched on Ulitzer +
MySQL, written in C and C++, was first released internally on 23 May 1995. Version 5.1 was released 27 November 2008 and the next [...] intellectual property. Although the deal was approved by Sun's board of directors, it has not yet been finalized. read more |
| + Aneesh Chopra Nominated For Federal CTO +
Although Aneesh Chopra is a new name for most, he is well know in Virginia as Governor Tim Kaine's Secretary of Technology. For [...] Obama's administration, you should take a look at Virginia's Strategic Plan for Information Technology. read more |
| + Dear Slashdot: You Get What You Pay For +
If o3 had stuck to its original goal - building an SSL accelerator on the cheap - it might have had better luck making its arguments. [...] available solution would have been irrelevant; comparing apples to chicken is a pretty useless thing to do. read more |
| + Dell Seeks to Benefit from Sun’s Dilemma +
With Sun’s destiny uncertain – and its users undoubtedly nail-bitingly anxious – Dell, which is not in great shape itself, is [...] to migrate Sun customers from their legacy Unix systems to its Nehalem-based Linux blade, rack and tower servers. read more |
| + Power-Saving Nettop With SUSE Linux Operating System +
As with earlier Shuttle Mini-PCs with pre-installed Linux operating system, the X270V uses openSUSE - now in version 11. All PC [...] packages is possible at any time by a 1-Click-Installation from the openSUSE website to meet individual requirements. read more |
| + Richard Stallman Updates His Ulitzer Author Page +
Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Travel and Hospitality." Each subject group offers [...] articles, blog posts, news, reviews, commentary, and unique editorial content authored by top experts in their fields. read more |
| + Linux Foundation to Push openSUSE Build Service +
The Linux Foundation is adding the openSUSE Build Service to the Linux Developer Network (LDN). It’s the only development platform [...] openSUSE distribution. The widgetry can now support compiling for the ARM platform, used mostly in embedded devices. read more |
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