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Counting the Cost of Free: What Value, Linux? | COMPUTER ZINE
“Your study found that it would cost $1.4 billion for a company to build the Linux kernel from scratch today, and $10.8 billion to build an entire Linux distribution similar to Fedora 9. Can you explain how you reached those figures?”
tags: linux, cost, fedora
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Microsoft says Azure still not up to par – Computerworld
“Due to an early emphasis on getting the right architecture for its Azure cloud platform, which went live in February, Microsoft’s cloud service is still missing key features that are available in the company’s standalone products, said Microsoft executives at the company’s 2010 Tech Ed conference, being held this week in New Orleans.”
tags: microsoft, azure, cloud
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When should excluding open source be illegal? | ZDNet
“Last week Laurent Bounin of Savoir Faire Linux in Quebec wrote in with good news.
A Canadian court ruled the provincial government broke the law in 2006 when it upgraded Windows on 800 workstations and excluded open source from the bid.
It wasn’t a complete victory. The decision was not reversed. But Savoir Faire got its court costs, and the government is on notice.”
tags: open-source, canda
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Eclipse: Developers growing more fond of desktop Linux
“A key finding was the continued growth of Linux as a developer desktop. “Close to one-third of developers (33 percent) now use Linux as their primary development operating system; this is up from 20 percent in 2007,” the report said.
“In parallel, Microsoft Windows has dropped from 74 percent in 2007 to 58 percent in 2010,” Eclipse said in the report.”
tags: eclipse
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Novell’s SLE update adds full KVM support, improved clustering
“Novell announced SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 11 Service Pack 1 (SP1) in server and desktop versions. SLE 11 SP1 advances the server version’s virtualization capabilities with full support for KVM, while boosting high availability clustering support, and the desktop version updates audio, Bluetooth, and multi-monitor support.”
tags: novell, sle, linux
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IBM Press room – 2010-05-19 IBM Unveils Software and Services to Help Organizations Make Sense of Their Deluge of Data – United States
“Powered by Apache Hadoop, an open source technology designed for analysis of big volumes of data, the new portfolio will help organizations analyze and visualize petabyte sized quantities of data. Consisting of specific analytics solutions that can be used by business professionals and easily be deployed by IT professionals in data center and cloud configurations”
tags: ibm, apache, hadoop
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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IBM Extends Development and Test to the IBM Cloud – Yahoo! Finance
“IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to go online with its commercial cloud service for software development and testing. IBM, which already delivers a test and development cloud, is now allowing enterprise and government clients to test and develop on an IBM Cloud. Following a successful beta program, IBM is working with partners in cloud management, cloud security and software development and testing support to provide businesses with a unique mix of flexibility, scalability, enterprise-grade security and control for development and test on the IBM Cloud.”
tags: ibm, development, cloud
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IBM Launches Development & Test Cloud Utilizing Red Hat Technology – Yahoo! Finance
“Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT – News), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IBM has selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a platform in its new cloud computing service for development and test.”
tags: cloud, ibm, red-fat
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Blizzard: World of Warcraft Not for Consoles
“The World of Warcraft is undoubtedly the juggernaut of the online PC gaming world, but Blizzard isn’t so keen on the idea of trying to cash in on console gamers just yet.”
tags: blizzard, wow, console
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Judith Hurwitz, Adam Jollans, and I are hosting a webcast on Wednesday, March 17, at 12 noon ET called “Cloud Computing Made Easy with IBM and Linux.”
From the description:
If you are implementing cloud computing, or considering clouds but still have questions, don’t miss this webcast. You will learn about cloud computing in simple, straightforward terms, from industry analyst, Judith Hurwitz, author of the new white paper on Linux and Cloud Computing, and co-author of “Cloud Computing for Dummies.” Find out why Linux is so well suited for cloud applications and how IBM’s cloud offerings and Linux make cloud computing easy from Dr. Robert Sutor, IBM Vice President, Open Source and Linux. Hear Judith’s top predictions for clouds in 2010 and get some practical guidance on implementing cloud computing in your organization in this webcast.
Please join us! Attendees will receive the complimentary white paper “Linux and Commercial Software: Combining to Support the Cloud Environment” by Judith Hurwitz.
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VMware vs. Red Hat: The Next Virtual Machine Management Battleground — ServerWatch.com
“Two areas where Thadani said he believes Red Hat’s KVM-based virtualization currently has an advantage over VMware are price and application support. Exact costs depend on the number of hosts and machines being virtualized, as well as the operating systems concerned. However, using RHEV instead of VMware could result in between 40 percent and 80 percent costs savings, he claimed. Red Hat guarantees that, because RHEV is built from the same kernel as RHEL, any Linux application that runs on RHEL will also run in a RHEL virtual machine virtualized on RHEV. If it doesn’t run properly in this way, Thadani said Red Hat will provide support to fix it so that it does.”
tags: vmware, red-hat, virtualization, kvm, rhev-h
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Novell Cloud Security Service Nears Launch | The VAR Guy
“Novell continues to push beyond the SUSE Linux market. Among the major moves: The company is beta testing Novell Cloud Security Service, which is scheduled for general availability in May or June, according to Novell sources attending the Parallels Summit in Miami. Here are the implications for hosting providers and cloud integrators.”
tags: cloud, novell, security
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Safari 4: Installing and Running it on Ubuntu Linux | Daily World Buzz
“Here’s an interesting tutorial that we would like to share with you on Daily World Buzz. It was written by Jun Auza of TechSource from Bohol. It’s a simple step by step tutorial with screenshots of how to install Safari 4 and use it in your Ubuntu Linux OS.”
tags: safari, ubuntu, linux, browser
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Microsoft Plays Catch-up — Sub-$70 Linux Virtual Desktop
“Userful Corporation, the world leader in multiseat Linux desktop virtualization, today announced that 30,000 schools worldwide have chosen Userful virtual desktops to reduce computing costs and improve computer-to-student ratios. Microsoft recently announced its own multi-seat solution, Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, seven years after Userful pioneered the technology on Linux back in 2002. Another classic case of Linux vs. Windows, only this time Linux has the upper hand with Userful having already sold 750,000 seats.”
tags: linux, desktop, virtualization
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What if content management were 3D? – FierceContentManagement
“During our conversation, I began thinking about what it would be like if someone designed a content management system in three dimensions. Think about how useful it would be to get all your company’s content laid out in front of you in a graphical view in which you could literally walk inside the system. How cool would that be?”
tags: content-management, 3d, virtual-world
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10 Ideas for Leveraging Virtual Events – Joerg Rathenberg : Target Marketing
“While more cost-effective than physical marketing events, virtual events offer another huge advantage: detailed information. As opposed to physical events, where often the only lead data consists of business card content, virtual events enable marketers to track and evaluate every move of each attendee within the environment, resulting in highly qualified sales leads.”
tags: marketing
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New World Notes: Second Life 2.0 Analysis: Epic Win for Userbase, Competition Killer… But Not Mass Market Game Changer (Yet)
“We keep using the web because we already know the answer to the why question — we use the web for destination sites, for locating information, online shopping, etc. etc. With a service that looks and acts like the world, the why question is more profound, and overwhelming. It’s why I believe an achievement system, or even an leveling ladder with experience points for exploring the world, creating content, and so on, is necessary. Not to turn Second Life into an MMO, but to give new users an activity structure that will inspire them to get the full breadth of Second Life and its possibilities.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Second-day thoughts on the new Second Life viewer – Computerworld Blogs
“And search won’t solve the what-to-do problem. The only solution is to connect newcomers with like-minded people. The best communication mechanism for Second Life is the oldest one on the planet: Word of mouth. You find out about things because your friends tell you about them.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Five essential design sites | Create | Creative Notes | Macworld
“When it comes to working on creative projects, even professional designers need a little help now and then. There’s no shortage of Web sites they can turn to for visual inspiration and advice. And, for the most part, civilians like me can take advantage of those very same resources. Whether I need specific technical instruction or just some good ideas, these five sites are where I turn to first.”
tags: design
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Q&A: IBM’s Alistair Rennie on the big picture for Lotus | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“IBM is spreading access to its Lotus social and collaboration software all over the various computing platforms. But what’s the big strategy here?
I spoke with Alistair Rennie (right), IBM’s Lotus general manager, about trends like the consumerization of IT and the grand plan for his unit. Here’s the recap.”
tags: lotus
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IBM to support iPhone, Macs with new software | Software, Interrupted – CNET News
“Big Blue is expected to announce Thursday at Macworld San Francisco that it will soon be delivering its enterprise social platform, Lotus Connections, and Lotus Quickr team collaboration package for use with the iPhone and Mac.”
tags: ibm, mac, iphone, lotus
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Groklaw – Packaging Open Source, by Mark Webbink
“There is an article by Mark Webbink, Esq., “Packaging Open Source”, in the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review, Vol 1, No 2 (2009) that I think you’ll find interesting. It compares various FOSS licenses and how they handle compilations and collective works. The context of the article is specifically packaging Linux with an application into a software appliance, but the descriptions of the licenses and how they work are broadly useful in other contexts as well. I am republishing the article here because many of you face choices about what license you will use on your works, so you also need to understand, and others of you are lawyers who would like to understand FOSS licenses better.”
tags: open source
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RHEL 5.5 advances KVM, WiFi
“Red Hat released the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5, providing memory allocation enhancements to the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor. RHEL 5.5 also introduces new storage and WiFi drivers, and supports new AMD, IBM, and Intel processors, says the company.”
tags: red-hat, linux, kvm
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Open Innovation: Accessing a canon of open source research
“So one of the things that’s clear is that even though the room represents hundreds of open source conference and journal papers, few of them have read any of the social science research on open source.”
tags: open-source, innovation
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LinuxPlanet – Interviews – What Matters to Open Source: Licensing or Community? – More to FOSS Than Licenses
“For instance, beyond open source’s licensing components is the idea of its community, which in many cases can be the ultimate arbiter of the success or failure of an open source effort: Simply making an application available under an open source license may not necessarily be enough for a project to succeed, nor is adopting an open source license some kind of magic pixie dust that you sprinkle onto a project to make it successful.”
tags: open-source, community, license
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451 CAOS Theory » Open source evolving with the cloud
“Interestingly, the OpenECP project chose to license it under the Affero GPLv3, and we’re watching licensing moves to see if cloud computing prompts more use of AGPL.”
tags: cloud, GPL, open-source
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Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week
“The Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer is Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon’s pet project. The idea behind the project is to enable developers to write quick, scratch-an-itch application and making development on Ubuntu fun and more accessible.”
tags: ubuntu, linux
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Yale Daily News – Virtual world, real money in ‘Second Life’
“Yale owns two islands. But you can’t get to either of them by air, land or sea.
They exist only in Second Life, an online universe where people can buy land and trade services.
The University purchased its first virtual island, Elihu, in 2007. While the second island lies fallow and Elihu Island currently has only two projects, people involved with the projects said Yale’s presence on Second Life is a cost-effective teaching tool — each island costs $700 to buy and $147.50 a month to maintain — that they hope the University expands.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world, yale
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I’m a little tardy in noting this, but this last week at Lotusphere, IBM partner ZSL issued the following press release, which begins:
Lotusphere, Florida (PRWEB) January 19, 2010
ZSL, a leading ISV & Global Software Solutions and Services provider, today launched “PowerCube” DaaS (Desktop as a Service), an open source-based desktop collaborative solution with supporting ZSL consulting practice. Available today in the U.S., Africa, and India, “PowerCube” will help mid-market customers using proprietary platforms to migrate to the IBM Client for Smart Work on Ubuntu’s operating system.
Intended for PCs, laptops, netbooks and thin clients as an alternative to commercial desktops and platforms, the ZSL “PowerCube” solution includes packaged services for migrating to the IBM Client for Smart Work, from user segmentation, TCO analysis, BPM based role identification and SOA, to application migration, pilot and production deployment. The DaaS capabilities provide customers with the option of using virtual desktops based on VERDE from Virtual Bridges on a private cloud managed by ZSL or on customer premise.
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Here’s a another press release from today involving IBM, Symphony, Lotus Live, Ubuntu Linux, and Virtual Bridges. We’re continuing the rollout of the partner-led IBM Client for Smart Work:
IBM Client for Smart Work Available Through Business Partners in India
ORLANDO, FL & BANGALORE, India – 18 Jan 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the immediate availability of IBM Client for Smart Work in India through business partners. The IBM Client for Smart Work, IBM and Canonical’s popular cloud-and Linux-based desktop package, is designed to help companies do more with less and lower desktop computing costs by up to 50 percent. CIO’s, IT directors and IT architects from all types of organizations in India, even those that typically cannot afford new PCs, can now gain immediate access to collaboration capabilities to help them work smarter, with the simple download of the IBM Client for Smart Work onto various thin clients, such as netbooks and other devices.
“Government leaders, CEOs and CIOs are seeking an open, cost effective and collaboration rich client strategy to leapfrog into the 21st century,” said Pradeep Nair, director of IBM India Software Group. “The IBM Client for Smart Work solution brings together the strengths of cloud-based collaboration, virtual desktops, netbook devices and open source, supported by a strong ecosystem of business partners, to help Indian innovators harness the next wave of growth.”
The collaboration package runs on Ubuntu Linux operating system available from Canonical and provides the option to deliver collaboration through the Web in a cloud service model. The Client comes with IBM Lotus Symphony, IBM LotusLive iNotes/Connections and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, with the option to add IBM Lotus Connections and IBM WebSphere Portal, as well as virtual desktop capabilities using VERDE from Virtual Bridges.
With the mounting interest in this solution, IBM today also announced that Simmtronics Semiconductors will ship their new Simmbooks (netbooks) with IBM Client for Smart Work on Ubuntu already preloaded to clients in India, US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, UK, and Vietnam.” We launched Simmbooks based on the high demand for netbook type devices for enterprises worldwide,” said Indrajit Sabharwal, managing director, Simmtronics Semiconductors. “Delivering Simmbooks with IBM Client for Smart Work on Ubuntu will help our customers lower their total cost of ownership and be on the forefront of innovation.”
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