Data Center
Flying high with open source
Sabre Holdings' IT department supports the Travelocity Web site, the Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions, and the company has been using open source tools for some 10 years, according to CTO Robert Wiseman.
Developers rank best application servers
The "user's choice" for application servers, according to more than 700 software developers, include two of the oldest-one
might say mature-and one relative newcomer. Developers ranked Adobe ColdFusion, the open-source Apache Geronimo, and Oracle
WebLogic Server, among their favorite options, according to a free report distributed by Evans Data (free registration required).
Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing
Red Hat Thursday released a Linux software stack for compute-intensive IT environments that it said costs less than Microsoft's
price for its comparable Windows offering.
Free version of Hyper-V now available
Following a similar move by VMware in August, Microsoft Wednesday released a free, low-footprint version of its Hyper-V virtualization
software as it continues to chase the virtualization leader.
Ellison pitches high-speed data warehouse server
Oracle saved the biggest news for last at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. CEO Larry Ellison took the stage Wednesday
afternoon to announce two hardware products developed with Hewlett-Packard that are designed to provide very high performance
for data warehousing applications.
Cisco buys into e-mail with $215 million PostPath acquisition
Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities
to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.
Two years on, Microsoft and Novell extend partnership
Microsoft said Wednesday it would purchase a further $100 million in coupons for SUSE Linux support from Novell, furthering
a controversial 2006 partnership aimed at customers who run both Windows and Linux in their server environments.
VMware joins Linux Foundation
Virtualization giant VMware has joined the Linux Foundation, lining up alongside existing members like Adobe, Google and IBM,
the organization announced Wednesday.
LinuxWorld: Community roots bolster Linux growth
Linux is beginning to find its legs as the foundation in many different technologies and in the process is fueling a feedback
loop that is helping accelerate the operating system’s popularity.
Microsoft on Symbian's open source move: Good luck with that
A Microsoft product manager predicts Symbian is embracing the problems, as well as the opportunities, of open sourcing its
mobile-phone code.
Red Hat develops Linux-based hypervisor, virtualization security tool
Red Hat released a beta version of a Linux-based hypervisor that fits on a flash drive.
Linux captures the 'green' flag, beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures
Our tests point to Linux as the winner of the green flag by margins that topped out at 12%. But we must note that our results
are full of stipulations imposed by our test bed, and, therefore, as many classified ads might say: your wattage may vary.
A new All-in-One server
Almost exactly seven years ago, I reviewed four different "All-in-One" Internet appliances that included file, e-mail and
Web servers and some other workgroup type utilities. A purple cube, eight inches on each side, called the Qube 3 from Cobalt
(purchased by Sun) won the comparison. The review is still available, but alas, none of the products are. The All-in-One market
is tough, and many small businesses go with the flow and buy Microsoft's Small Business Server, which includes most of the
All-in-One features.
Novell, Red Hat upgrade Linux offerings
Novell and Red Hat both updated their Linux operating systems Wednesday, adding improvements in virtualization, desktops,
networking, management and hardware support.
Jive beefs up collaboration tools with SharePoint integration
Collaboration vendor Jive Software Monday added integration with Microsoft's SharePoint Server plus project management and
social networking tools to the new version of its social computing platform.
• Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs
• Mozilla names best Firefox 3 add-ons
• Torvalds: Fed up with the 'security circus'
• Dell Latitude ON - big win for Linux
• Open source advocates hail appeals court ruling
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo San Francisco, August 4-7, 2008.
Linux Plumbers Conference Portland, OR, Sept. 16-19, 2008.
FreedomHEC Santa Monica, November 8-9, 2008.
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